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A new Grady College course is equipping students with skills needed to discern between truth and misinformation when consuming digital media. “Media Savvy: Becoming Digitally Literate” is an online summer class taught by Amanda Bright, academic professional in journalism. “Current events are creating this course,” Bright said. “Although misinformation is hardly new, the current trends with media […]

Grady College is pleased to welcome four new faculty members to its team starting in the 2018-19 academic year. Amanda Bright joins Grady College as an academic professional in the Department of Journalism and will be working closely with Newsource and its digital communications, including the launch of a new website this fall. Bright has […]

The first-ever Journalism Innovation Lab Team from the Cox Institute of Innovation, Management and Leadership finished in the top six teams in the nation, out of more than 50, in the 2022 Reynolds Journalism Institution Student Innovation Competition. Team members Sophia Haynes, Cassidy Hettesheimer and Gabby Vitali, all journalism majors, created and tested a product […]

From March 28 to April 8, 21 early-to-mid-career journalists from the country Georgia are at Grady College taking classes in the area of digital media.  Following a week at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, the young group of international journalists is now spending two weeks in Athens, studying multi-platform storytelling, media engineering, convergence in […]

Faculty from the University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication presented an innovative practice paper at this year’s annual conference of the Association of Leadership Educators in Chicago. The presentation resulted from an ongoing collaboration between the Fanning Institute’s Brandy Walker and Rich McCline […]

This story was originally published by the Cox Institute.  The Grady College’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) was recognized as the outstanding student chapter in Region Three for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Society honors a select group of campus chapters for their outstanding work in supporting the group’s missions, members and […]

An eBook featuring excerpts of interviews from The Lead podcast won two gold medals in the 2020 eLit Book Awards competition, which recognizes excellence in digital publishing. The eBook entitled News Leadership: Conversations about Journalism and its Future was released by Kendall Hunt Publishing in December as a project of the James M. Cox Jr. […]

The Society of Professional Journalists recognized Grady’s The Lead podcast and its host Charlotte Norsworthy as among the best of collegiate journalism for Region 3 in 2019. The Lead podcast received first place in the Mark of Excellence Awards competition for the region, which comprises student journalists from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and […]

Janice Hume, the Carolyn McKenzie and Don E. Carter Chair for Excellence in Journalism and incoming associate dean of academic affairs at Grady College, is the recipient of the 2022 Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement by the American Journalism Historians Association. It is AJHA’s highest honor. The chair of the Service Awards Committee, Professor […]

Work by two graduate assistants of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership was presented at a June national leadership conference. Kate Hester, a current graduate assistant, and Ev Andrews, a former graduate assistant, were co-authors along with Dr. Keith Herndon, executive director of the Cox Institute, on a peer-reviewed […]