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The Peabody Board of Jurors revealed today nine Entertainment and a Children’s winner for programs released in 2018. The honorees include a children’s superhero saga focused on empathy; darkly comic immersions into the male and female killer mind; welcomed reformulations and expansions of standup comedy and political entertainment shows; and expansive creativity in a show […]

Grady College faculty members Keith Herndon and Grace Ahn have been honored by the UGA Office of Instruction for incorporating innovation in their teaching. Keith Herndon, William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management, Director of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute and Professor of Practice in Journalism, is one of four professors campus-wide […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors revealed today eight winners in the Documentary category for programs released in 2018. The honorees, part of the annual Peabody 30, include profiles of unsung activists like Dolores Huerta, Lorraine Hansberry, and the “comfort woman” of World War II; insight into the challenges faced by parents of children living […]

What made you choose EMST as your major? I’ve always wanted to end up in a writer’s room for TV, so when I transferred to UGA, I knew that I would apply for admission into Grady, and furthermore, into EMST. I remember being really excited that Grady actually had a program dedicated to that type […]

More information about the MFA Narrative Media Writing Program, including the screenwriting program and narrative nonfiction program, can be found by visiting mfa.uga.edu. Applications for the next MFA class are due May 1, 2019 (special alumni extension). By Lori Johnston (BA ’95, MFA ’17) I waited for the Grady College’s Master of Fine Arts in […]

It is the first day of Thursday classes on a cool January afternoon at the heart of the University of Georgia’s campus. Students are filling stadium style seats on the second floor of a Miller Learning Center classroom. One co-instructor is troubleshooting inevitable first-day-of-class technology plagues as late arrivals scan the room for an available […]

Why Grady? Since senior year of high school, I knew that I wanted to study public relations. I also wanted to stay in-state, and when weighing the options for PR programs in this state, studying at Grady was the obvious choice after doing a little bit of research. I did debate between getting a smaller-school […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have announced the 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2018. The nominees were selected by unanimous vote of 19 jurors from more than 1,200 entries from television, radio/podcasts and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, children’s and public service […]

The University of Georgia has recognized this year’s Cox Institute undergraduate student worker for her academic excellence and her outstanding job performance. Charlotte Norsworthy recently received the George M. Abney Honors Award, which goes to the Grady graduating senior who has achieved the most impressive record in the university’s honors program.  This week, Norsworthy attended […]

A deep-dive looking for hidden gems in the Peabody Awards Collection; an examination of how criminal defendants are portrayed in the media prior to trials; and an evaluation of attitudes by millennials toward LGBTQ couples in advertisements…these are just a few of the research projects Grady students are conducting through the Center for Undergraduate Research […]