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Grady College asked news managers with experience in local and national media how outlets should cover the coronavirus pandemic. Bob Furnad is 50-year veteran in broadcast news production and management with ABC and CNN among others on his resume. He served as president of CNN Headline News before retiring He also was a visiting associate […]

What are you passionate about? I am passionate about the beauty of togetherness and vulnerability that comes from pursuing creativity. I am passionate about creative collaboration. I am passionate about the ability we have to bring a story into the life and imagination of cinema, poetry, writing, and the way that brings comfort, newness, and […]

This story first published in its entirety at news.uga.edu. As a Visitors Center tour guide and ISL world leader, Lillie Russell has welcomed hundreds of new students to UGA and showed them all the possibilities for growth and how to empower them in their next steps. Hometown: Woodstock, Georgia High school: Etowah High School Current […]

Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, director of Grady College’s Games and Virtual Environments Lab and an associate professor of advertising, has been named co-editor of the journal “Media Psychology” beginning fall 2020. Ahn joins Benjamin Johnson from the University of Florida, Marina Krcmar from Wake Forest University and Leonard Reinecke from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, […]

Editor’s note: this feature originally appeared on the UGA Today website. Vicki Michaelis, John Huland Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism & Society in Grady College, spent more than 20 years as a sports journalist, the last 12 as the lead Olympics reporter for USA Today. Since 2012 she has taught at the University of Georgia […]

  The Grady College’s Charlotte Norsworthy was recently awarded two industry scholarships in recognition of academic achievements related to media technology and innovation. PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), awarded Norsworthy a $5,000 scholarship and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) presented her with one of its $3,000 Abe Voron scholarships, […]

Don Sylvester (ABJ ’75) recently won the Oscar for sound editing on “Ford v Ferrari.” He joined Dayne Young and Jay Hamilton, Grady’s entertainment and media studies department head, on “Grady College Conversations” to discuss the intricacies of film sound editing, the awards season for “Ford v Ferrari” and his time as a student at […]

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 […]

One of Grady College’s fastest growing graduate programs, the Master of Arts in Emerging Media, is offering a new program that features curriculum completely online. The Emerging Media Masters Online program will not only double the capacity of the program, but will also enable the curriculum to be accessed from literally anywhere in the world. […]

Editor’s note: this feature originally appeared on the UGA Today website.  Journalists face some unique challenges when they try to report accurately on a major infectious disease outbreak like the one associated with COVID-19, according to professor Glen Nowak, director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at Grady College and a former director of media […]