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Congratulations to Parker Middleton (Ph.D. ’00, MFA ’21), one of the honorees to be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship during Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. Middleton came to the University of Georgia in 1991 after a career in advertising and public relations, marked by award-winning work for local, regional and international clients. While […]

Stand-up comic, television personality and Emmy-nominated documentary producer Roy Wood Jr. will host the 85th Annual Peabody Awards ceremony, which pays tribute to storytelling that reflects the social issues and emerging voices of our day.  This year’s event is set for June 1, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.  This is Wood’s first […]

Congratulations to the faculty and graduate students from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations who received honors at the American Academy of Advertising Conference in Pittsburg March 6-9. Jooyoung Kim, the Dan Magill Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Sports Communications and executive director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication […]

Forest Dynes is a fourth year student pursuing a double major in journalism and sociology. Through his involvement as photo editor of The Red & Black, Forest aims to connect communities and tell authentic stories through photography. Read his Q/A below. Why did you choose your major? I chose my majors because of some advice […]

Congratulations to Eric Baker (ABJ ‘90) for being named the recipient of the John Holliman, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award. Baker will also be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship at Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025.  Baker began his career as a prop fabricator at Nickelodeon, working on shows like Clarissa Explains it All and […]

Scripts written by four Entertainment and Media Studies students and Matthew Nolte Evans, assistant professor, earned high recognition at the 2025 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competition. This year’s festival received a total of 2,285 entries from over 300 participating universities. Awards won by EMST students and faculty included: Student Scriptwriting Competition, […]

A new study, conducted by Laurena Bernabo, Grady College assistant professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies, highlights dubbing professionals’ perspectives on the changing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the dubbing industry.  In Bernabo’s publication, “How, When, and Why to Use AI: Strategic Uses of Professional Perceptions and Industry Lore in the […]

For the second year in a row, a University of Georgia public relations student has been named the Outstanding Student in the country by PRWeek, a leading publication in the public relations industry. Margot Murphy was named the outstanding student at PRWeek’s U.S. Awards in New York City on March 13, 2025. Nearly 800 industry […]

Mary Rushton Massey is a fourth year public relations major with a business minor and certificate in personal and organizational leadership. As an active member of the UGA campus community, she has held roles as an intern for the PGA of America and a fellow in the Institute for Leadership Advancement. Her passion for leadership […]

Congratulations to Malena Cunningham Anderson (ABJ ’80), one of the honorees to be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship during Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. Anderson is a news anchor and reporter who began her career working behind the scenes at CNN in 1982. In the years that followed, she worked as a reporter […]