Blog Archive
#ProfilesOfTenacity: Heaven Robinson
Fourth year advertising major Heaven Robinson uses her design skills both in and out of the classroom, serving as the art director for Pandora Yearbook and Talking Dog Agency. Robinson was a 2022 MAIP fellow, interning for Saatchi & Saatchi this summer. After graduating in December, she will pursue a masters degree in emerging media. […]
#ProfilesOfTenacity: Sydney Hood
Journalism major Sydney Hood balances her time at Grady with working as a weekend multimedia journalist for WRDW/WAGT News 12 NBC 26. She also serves as the president of DiGamma Kappa Broadcast Society, works as a senior production manager for Grady Newsource, is a reporter for the Newsource election show, and she writes for the […]
#ProfilesOfTenacity: Olga Diaz-Nasser
Olga Diaz-Nasser is a fourth year public relations major with a minor in French and a certificate in public affairs communications. She is also a double dawg and will be getting her masters in public administration. She is heavily involved in and outside of the Grady community, serving as the executive director of University Judiciary, […]
Cox International Center welcomes group of journalists from Sri Lanka
On July 14, 2022, the James M. Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research welcomed seven journalists from Sri Lanka to Grady College, where they spent the day touring College facilities and taking classes on digital media and journalism in the United States. The visit to Grady was as a part of the U.S. Department of […]
New podcast studio opens on first floor
Grady College has converted a space on its first floor into a high-tech podcast studio. The new studio gives students the opportunity to hone their skills in one of the fastest-growing methods of communication. Featuring advanced sound equipment, the studio is available for both classroom and student use. It is large enough for Grady College […]
Department of Advertising and Public Relations hosts 2022 AdPR Week
Grady College’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations will celebrate its 8th annual week-long celebration of National AdPR Week Oct. 3 – 7. This year’s AdPR week will feature a lineup of engaging activities and presentations by alumni and industry leaders to facilitate students’ networking and professional development opportunities. To kick off the celebration, AdPR […]
Neil Landau named executive director of MFA Film Program
Neil Landau (MFA ’18), an award-winning screenwriter, creative producer, author, and educator has been named Executive Director of the University of Georgia Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media. “Professor Landau brings a vast amount of experience not only in the film industry, but in the MFA space, as well,” said Charles […]
Podcast: Exploring Grady College’s Qualitative Research Lab
Listen to Grady Research Radio Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Stitcher Recently, the Grady Research Radio podcast had the pleasure of featuring Dr. Karin Assmann, an assistant professor in the Journalism Department at Grady College, a former U.S. correspondent for Spiegel TV, and the director of the Qualitative Research Lab. The lab is for both graduate and undergraduate students […]
Student journalists at The Oglethorpe Echo are finalists for awards
Student journalists at The Oglethorpe Echo are finalists for the 2021-22 Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) Awards. The paper was notified that its journalists were finalists in two categories: the Game-Changer Award/Small Division and the Insight Award for Visual Journalism. In addition to this recognition for visual journalism, The Oglethorpe Echo has also been nominated […]
Grady College launches 2 new study away programs
This summer, Grady College is offering two new study away programs, in Chicago and Croatia, and bringing back the Travel Writing in Prague program. Information sessions on these programs and seven additional Grady study away programs are happening throughout the months of September, October and early November. The deadline to apply to all Grady study […]