Blog Archive

It was a day for celebration, with a touch of sentimentality, as alumni, faculty and friends of Grady College gathered for Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. For the second year in a row, Grady Salutes took place over lunch on the Schnitzer Family Media Lawn in front of the College that means so much […]

Camden Flinn is a third year entertainment & media studies major from Decatur, Georgia. He is set to graduate in May 2026. Flinn now serves as the president of the Backlight Film Festival, after holding the role of programing coordinator. He is also an active member of the Entertainment Media Industries Club and contributes to […]

A recently published wine book from two Grady faculty members earned a silver award in the Nonfiction Book Awards sponsored by the Nonfiction Authors Association. “Wine Conversations: Exploring Meaning, Mystery and Myth” was produced by Keith Herndon, author and interviewer, along with Charlotte Varnum, editor. The book, featuring 16 interviews with prominent wine industry experts, […]

University of Georgia students participated in new research studies on digital misinformation and won prizes at the spring 2025 What the Hackathon. The event was sponsored by the What the Hack podcast, hosted by Adam Levin, and offered more than 40 students guidance on how people interpret and respond to misinformation online, drawing from current […]

The Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership presented its Medal of Achievement to 30 journalism students during the Institute’s 2025 Spring Recognition Dinner. Held March 27 at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Library, the dinner honored the students’ completion of their work as Fink Fellows, Griffiths Innovators and Levin Leaders. The students wrote and […]

On April 14 at Grady College, Hedge Fund: Venture Between the Hedges, once again helped contribute to the graduate Crisis Communication and Strategic Conflict Management course at Grady College. In its second year, the new “Shark Tank” inspired competition,  funded by a group of industry leaders, had student teams develop theory-based strategies for problem solving […]

Booker T. Mattison, associate professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at Grady College, is set to release his second original film for the free streaming platform Tubi. An Unusual Suspect premieres April 25, 2025. The legal thriller follows Viola January (Christie Leverette), a young, ambitious attorney who takes on the case of a wrongfully […]

On April 11, the Crisis Communication Think Tank (CCTT) hosted its 7th annual U.S. Headquarters meeting at the University of Georgia’s Grady College. Bringing together more than 20 leading scholars and practitioners, the event centered on this year’s theme: LEAP—an acronym representing Leadership, Evaluation, Alignment, and Precision in crisis management. Throughout the day, attendees engaged […]

Congratulations to Bill Crane (ABJ ’84), one of the honorees to be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship during Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. Crane has served as a senior communications strategist for nearly 30 years. He began his career in broadcasting and has worked in that arena as the chief political analyst and […]

Riley Miller is a fourth year public relations major, with a minor in fashion merchandising, from Braselton, Georgia. She is set to graduate in May 2025. Miller completed an internship in London last summer with British Forces Broadcasting Services and currently serves as the social media director for the Public Relations Student Society of America. […]