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Editor’s Note: Kate Fortmueller will discuss “Below the Stars” during an Avid Bookshop Zoom discussion July 13 at 7 p.m. While many people were spending the initial time during COVID-19 watching “Tiger King” and reruns of “The Golden Girls,” Kate Fortmueller was writing not just one book, but two. Fortmueller’s books, “Below the Stars: How […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. Rodgers Townsend is an advertising agency located in St. Louis, Missouri. They work with clients as big as AT&T and State Farm to smaller clients such as Smoothie King and George […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. I am working for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, also referred to as the International Emmy Awards. My title is Summer Judging and Membership Intern, and I am […]

It is with sadness that we announce the death of Celestia “Lessie” Bailey Smithgall (ABJ ’33), an alumna who played a pivotal role in the creation of the Peabody Awards. Smithgall celebrated her 110th birthday in April and died at her home on June 25 in Gainesville, Georgia. “Lessie Smithgall is a foundational, iconic member […]

A recent episode of The Leadership Educator podcast featured a discussion about the podcast initiatives of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership. The Leadership Educator’s hosts Dan Jenkins and Lauren Bullock interviewed Keith Herndon, the Cox Institute’s director, and Charlotte Norsworthy, who was the Cox Institute’s graduate assistant prior […]

A collaboration led by the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership received the Distinguished Paper Award for an innovative practice paper presented at the 2021 annual conference of the Association of Leadership Educators. The peer-reviewed paper resulted from the Cox Institute’s collaboration with UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. I am an intern for The Bert Show out of Atlanta. Because of COVID, I am doing my internship virtually at home. Usually, I prepare my three city news headlines (New […]

The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced the selection of two new Tieger Fellows for the summer of 2021: Megan Mittelhammer and Jake Strickland. The Tieger Fellowship gives current students pursuing a Public Affairs Professional Certificate in Public Affairs Communications (PAC) the opportunity to apply skills learned in the classroom […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. My internship involves me traveling to the Atlanta area three times a week to capture interviews with intriguing people. A typical day in my internship is waking up early, traveling usually […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. My days usually start with a check-in with my supervisor Curtis, who is actually a UGA alum (B.A. ‘13). This is when I get my assignments for the day. Assignments have […]