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The Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership presented its Medal of Achievement to 30 journalism students during the Institute’s 2025 Spring Recognition Dinner. Held March 27 at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Library, the dinner honored the students’ completion of their work as Fink Fellows, Griffiths Innovators and Levin Leaders. The students wrote and […]

On April 14 at Grady College, Hedge Fund: Venture Between the Hedges, once again helped contribute to the graduate Crisis Communication and Strategic Conflict Management course at Grady College. In its second year, the new “Shark Tank” inspired competition,  funded by a group of industry leaders, had student teams develop theory-based strategies for problem solving […]

Booker T. Mattison, associate professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at Grady College, is set to release his second original film for the free streaming platform Tubi. An Unusual Suspect premieres April 25, 2025. The legal thriller follows Viola January (Christie Leverette), a young, ambitious attorney who takes on the case of a wrongfully […]

On April 11, the Crisis Communication Think Tank (CCTT) hosted its 7th annual U.S. Headquarters meeting at the University of Georgia’s Grady College. Bringing together more than 20 leading scholars and practitioners, the event centered on this year’s theme: LEAP—an acronym representing Leadership, Evaluation, Alignment, and Precision in crisis management. Throughout the day, attendees engaged […]

Congratulations to Bill Crane (ABJ ’84), one of the honorees to be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship during Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. Crane has served as a senior communications strategist for nearly 30 years. He began his career in broadcasting and has worked in that arena as the chief political analyst and […]

Riley Miller is a fourth year public relations major, with a minor in fashion merchandising, from Braselton, Georgia. She is set to graduate in May 2025. Miller completed an internship in London last summer with British Forces Broadcasting Services and currently serves as the social media director for the Public Relations Student Society of America. […]

Nominees for the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment and Interactive/Immersive categories announced for June 1 ceremony; winners to be announced May 1 The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the nominees for the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment, and Interactive & Immersive categories selected to represent the most captivating and impactful stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during […]

Congratulations to Heidi Hennink-Kaminski (Ph.D. ’06), the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award. Hennink-Kaminski’s research focuses on interdisciplinary health communication, emphasizing social marketing strategies to promote healthy behaviors at both individual and community levels. Her research has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the […]

Janice Hume, the Carolyn McKenzie and Don E. Carter Chair for Excellence in Journalism and the associate dean for academic affairs, has been named the recipient of the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Established in 2020, the Shaw award […]

Nominees for the Documentary, News, Public Service and Radio/Podcast categories announced for June 1 ceremony; winners to be announced May 1 The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the nominees for the Documentary, News, Public Service, and Radio/Podcast categories, selected to represent the most captivating and impactful stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during […]