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A story idea about new technology and AI helping combat food waste at University of Georgia dining halls, presented by Janki Patel, Marissa Rabin and Tripp Teague, won first place in the Reporting I Beat Story Pitch Competition for spring 2025. Nine beat groups, roughly 180 students, across the Reporting I (JOUR 3090) sections presented […]

Spring 2025 Grady College graduates were celebrated by family, friends, faculty and staff at Grady College’s Convocation ceremony on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at the Athens Classic Center Grand Hall.  More than 525 graduate and undergraduate students graduated from Grady College this semester including two Ph.D. students, nearly 100 master’s students, more than 100 advertising […]

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of a feature originally posted on UGA Today. To see the complete feature and photos, visit that webpage. Every soon-to-be University of Georgia graduate knows that graduation night isn’t over until the iconic fireworks launch and light up the sky. Kate Hall expects both the fireworks and waterworks. Hall says […]

De’Ondre Harris, a graduating journalism major from Atlanta, Georgia, has been named senior speaker for the Spring 2025 Grady College Convocation. Grady Convocation ceremonies will be held at the Athens Classic Center on Wednesday, May 7, at 2 p.m. Kate Hall, a public relations major, was selected to be the student speaker at UGA Commencement […]

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of a feature originally posted on UGA Beyond the Arch. To read the complete feature and see the videos and photos, visit that webpage. Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca.  All are top of mind when thinking of premier film festivals, but for film students in Georgia, Backlight is the place to […]

Noah Buice is a fifth year from Barnesville, Georgia, majoring in journalism with a Certificate in Sports Media. Noah works as a digital marketing intern for Georgia Bulldog Sports Marketing. This past summer, Noah interned for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, where he was then promoted to a producer.  Read his Q/A below. Why […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the winners selected to represent the most captivating and inspiring stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2024. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from over 1,000 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service, and […]

For Shonté Hodnett, a Master of Fine Arts Narrative Media student, “Hidden Lines” is more than just a script she wrote for an assignment. It’s important cultural history that has a personal family connection. Hodnett was recently recognized as a quarterfinalist in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay competition, an impressive showing for a first-time scriptwriter. […]

Cicero Independiente journalists have been named the recipients of the Rollin M. “Pete” McCommons Award for Distinguished Community Journalism. The award recognizes the group for their investigative series, “The Air We Breathe: Environmental concerns in the majority Latinix town of Cicero, Illinois,” that they reported on in collaboration with MuckRock, a non-profit collaborative new site. […]

A multidisciplinary team from the Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) researching public health impacts through cutting-edge immersive media technologies is the recipient of the Presidents’ Award of Distinction from the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA). The award, presented at the Georgia CTSA’s annual conference in March, is given to a research […]