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PR leaders raise grade to B- in the Plank Center’s Report Card 2021

Did the pandemic and social turmoil drive improved performance?   Leaders in public relations improved their performance during the volatile and challenging world of 2020-2022. For the first time since the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations launched its biennial Leadership Report Card in 2015, the grade for overall leadership performance rose to B-. […]

Grady InternViews: Simi Shetty

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and your responsibilities: W. P. Carey is a publicly funded real estate investment trust located in NYC. I am the corporate communications intern, so I work for the integrated communications department. I usually […]

New class teaches digital literacy tools to combat information disorder

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 welcomes four new faculty for start of 2018-19 academic year

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 […]

Journalism Innovation Lab Team finishes in top six in Nationwide Competition

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 […]

Cox International Center welcomes young Georgian journalists for digital media training

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 […]

Fanning Institute and Grady Faculty Explain Collaboration in Innovative Practice Paper

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 […]

Grady’s SPJ Wins Outstanding Chapter for Region 3

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 […]

Cox Institute’s eBook from The Lead Podcast Wins Gold Medals

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. […]