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Students to conduct media relations for the nation’s first Public Affairs Communications program The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced the selection of two new Tieger Fellows for the spring of 2019: Madison Gable and Anna Leigh Herndon. The Tieger Fellowship supports the mission of the College’s first-in-the-nation Public Affairs […]

Mentors often remind college students to maintain the bonds and relationships built during years on campus. Usually, they remind an audience how current classmates will be important to each other’s stories after college. This was especially true for Ben Bolton (ABJ ’14), from Savannah, Georgia, and Paula Rotondo (ABJ ’14), from Marietta, Georgia, who first […]

Editor’s note: this is the second in a series of Grady College alumni profiles celebrating Black History Month. For University of Georgia alumni Everett Long (MA ‘10), February’s celebration of Black History Month embodies black excellence. As a black man in the public health industry, Long’s unique perspective helped shape his career aspirations. Starting in […]

Editor’s Note: #GradyGrit is a new series of profiles of Grady College students who show determination, leadership and outreach to the community. Search “#GradyGrit” on the Grady College website for additional profiles. Why did you choose Grady? I chose Grady because I knew it would prepare me with the skills I needed to be a strategic […]

Editor’s note: this is the first in a series of Grady College alumni profiles celebrating Black History Month. Monica Pearson can be seen delivering the Holmes-Hunter Lecture on Feb. 7, 2019, at 2 p.m. at the UGA Chapel. Her face, along with her voice, is one of the most recognized in Atlanta. When Monica Pearson […]

Grady College has named two Yarbrough-Grady Fellows for the spring 2019 semester: Maddie Fiorante from Portland, Oregon, and Allison Miller from Sandy Springs, Georgia. Fiorante will focus on public relations while Miller focuses on graphic design.  The fellowship, funded through Grady College alumnus Dick Yarbrough (ABJ ’59), is an experiential work program in which Grady College students work alongside the office of communications to produce content for the college website, social […]

It should come as no surprise that the son of a building contractor and a junior high school art teacher, would spend time sewing and designing his own Halloween costumes at 8-years-old and molding his own Yoda masks a few years later; or, that he would grow up to work in the design playground of […]

Yan Jin, a professor of public relations and assistant department head of the advertising and public relations department in the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named UGA Athletic Association Professor. The professorship supports the academic mission of the university and recognizes Jin for her contributions to the field. […]

The result of football instant replay video reviews can alter a consumer’s perception of a brand, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The upcoming Super Bowl, often referred to as the “Ad Bowl,” provides a variety of advertising opportunities, including when officials […]