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Janice Hume has been named the Carolyn McKenzie and Don E. Carter Chair for Excellence in Journalism at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Hume serves as the head of the Department of Journalism. The purpose of the Carter Chair is to teach journalistic excellence to students entering the profession, […]

Ryan Carty (ABJ ’09) is an emerging talent recruiter for Meta. He has 12 years of experience that includes recruiting, university career services, diversity & inclusion, corporate relations, career coaching/counseling, college admissions counseling, and training and development. Following is a brief interview with Carty. Why are you involved with the GSAB? I want to give back […]

Peabody announced that “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” the estimable cultural interview radio and podcast program, has won the Institutional Award. Stephen Colbert presented Terry Gross and the Fresh Air team with the honor via video. Fresh Air, which originated from WHYY in Philadelphia and broadcasts daily through NPR, is being recognized for its rich […]

Grady College is happy to recognize its Teachers of the Year for the 2021-22 academic year:  Dodie Cantrell-Bickley, senior lecturer, Journalism.  Booker T. Mattison, assistant professor, Entertainment and Media Studies.  Alexander Pfeuffer, assistant professor, Advertising. Kristen Smith, senior lecturer, Public Relations. Grady College is also happy to recognize the 2021-22 recipient of the Roland Page […]

Juan Meng, an associate professor of public relations and founder and director of the Choose China Study Abroad program, has been tapped to direct the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College effective August 1, 2022. Current department head, Bryan Reber, will retire effective August 1, 2022. “Dr. Meng adds to the long […]

Peabody announced that Dan Rather, the award-winning journalist whose career has spanned six decades, has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award.  Dolly Parton presented Rather with the honor via video. The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has been the home of Peabody since its founding in 1940. Rather, who has […]

The old adage “write what you know” applies to the students in The Writers’ Room, a group honing their craft as future television and screenwriters. While the group may not be professional yet, the students are creating a sitcom about a fictional college writers’ room. The group of nearly a dozen students met most Mondays […]

Grady College Entertainment and Media Studies major Abigail Clark was chosen as a multimedia journalist (MMJ) to work at the Broadcast Education Association/National Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas, which happened April 23-26, 2022. Clark was one of four students across the United States to be awarded this opportunity.  BEA Student MMJs are […]

After Trump’s 2019 tweet telling four congresswomen, known as “The Squad,” to “go back” to their home countries, the number of incivil replies to tweets made by the congresswomen almost doubled, new research finds.  Despite all four congresswomen — Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna […]

Millard Grimes (ABJ ’51), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, editor/publisher of nearly three dozen publications and ardent supporter of The Red & Black, died May 3, 2022 at the age of 92. Grimes received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from Grady College in 2007 and was inducted into the Grady Fellowship in its inaugural class in […]