Blog Archive

In the weeks leading up to the Grady College Centennial Weekend, April 16-19, we’ll feature a guest blog post authored by a preselected alumnus/alumna. For ways in which students, faculty, alumni, donors and friends can share Grady College memories and photos in honor of the centennial year, please visit grady100.uga.edu I first heard about Grady […]

The following was written for UGA Columns and UGA Today. As a faculty member, Bart ­Wojdynski derives satisfaction from seeing the switch flipped within the minds of his students. “I love watching students develop interests they didn’t know they had,” he said. “My goal is to try to meet students at the intersection of what they […]

Preparing students for the real world of journalism often includes assignments of breaking news, or stories of conflict and strife. Seldom is there time to cover the positive side of news, but for a group of Grady College students, they are making the time by volunteering to cover another angle. “Another Angle” is a broadcast […]

Pictures from the Spring 2019 Grady Convocation can be viewed on the UGAGrady Flickr galleries: Spring 2019 convocation candids Spring 2019 convocation graduates: Graduate degrees Advertising Public Relations Journalism EMST Spring 2019 convocation ceremony Nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate students were eligible for graduation from Grady College this semester, many of whom were recognized at the […]

The Peabody Media Center has named seven winners of this year’s Peabody Futures of Media Awards for outstanding digital storytelling released in 2018. This year’s winners include: digital journalism exploring ethical questions about society’s treatment of sex offenders, immersive experiences into the Dutch drug trade and artifacts in British museums; virtual reality experiences about complex […]

The University of Georgia’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication held its second annual Crisis Communication Think Tank event on April 18, 2019. This year’s CCTT theme was “sticky crisis,” with a focus on how to advance crisis communication effectiveness in managing challenging and complex crisis […]

Five Grady journalism students have the distinction of serving as the inaugural group of Morris Media Fellows, an experiential learning program established through the William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management. Miranda Daniel was the first student selected and worked during spring semester as a visual journalist at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, part of […]

Seven students from the Journalism Department at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will gain experiential learning experience during Summer 2019 through Cox Innovation Fellowships. Sponsored by the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism, Management and Leadership, the students are assigned to a variety of media outlets. The students and their assignments […]

Grady College is proud to announce that Jonathan Wegman (ABJ ’04) will deliver the Charge to Candidates and Lauren Diaz will be the distinguished senior speaker at the Grady College Convocation for spring and summer graduates on May 8, 2019. The ceremony starts at 3 p.m. at the Classic Center. In addition, a Grady College […]