Blog Archive

Three student journalists selected as winners of the Best Stories of Summer contest

Luke Gamble, Savannah Sicurella and Tyler Wilkins were selected as the 2019 winners of the “Best Stories of Summer” contest. The annual contest, sponsored by Grady College’s Department of Journalism, asks interested students to submit stories written as part of a summer internship. The submissions, which can be formatted for print, digital or television, are […]

Grady’s SPJ Wins Outstanding Chapter for Region 3

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 journalism. Each year, SPJ’s 12 regional coordinators and directors […]

Annual AdPR Academy provides students and industry professionals connection through diversity initiative

Learn more about AdPR Academy at adpracademy.uga.edu. Editor’s Note: While many students were spending their spring break relaxing, Destiny McClain, a marketing major from Terry College, and Jharell Ybarra, an advertising major from Grady College, were participating in AdPR Academy along with 15 other students, many from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. This is the […]

UGA Grady College launches first AdPR Academy to address diversity gap in advertising, public relations industries

Learn more about AdPR Academy at adpracademy.uga.edu. The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is launching its first AdPR Academy, a week-long bootcamp designed to teach students from diverse backgrounds tangible skills from the advertising and public relations industries. This program includes more than 35 hours of training from experts and […]

Bartosz Wojdynski named Jim Kennedy Professor of New Media

Grady College has named Bartosz Wojdynski a Jim Kennedy Professor of New Media. Wojdynski is an associate professor of journalism and director of the Digital Media Attention and Cognition Lab, which conducts eye-tracking research to evaluate effective message design and media consumption. “Bart is known for his groundbreaking research on consumers’ understanding of sponsored news […]

Public Relations Leaders Earn a “C+” in The Plank Center’s Report Card 2019

Bryan Reber and Juan Meng of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations were among a team of researchers evaluating perceptions about public relations leadership as part of The Plank Center’s Report Card 2019. The 2019 report was released the end of September and reflects little change in public relations leadership from studies in 2015 […]

Cox Institute Hosts 2019 Entrepreneurial Journalism Symposium

The Cox Institute sponsored this year’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Symposium from Oct. 21-22 at the Grady College. We brought the 2019 @UGAGrady Mobile News Lab home tonight with a fantastic project showcase. Thanks to @bsabatinelli of @Newsy for sharing his insights with #GradyMOJO Great job everyone! #ProudProf #CoxInst pic.twitter.com/DyKILP5ptt — Keith Herndon, Ph.D. (@KeithLHerndon) October 22, […]