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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 […]

It may be a coincidence that Grady College and Grady County share the same namesake in Henry W. Grady, but they also share something else in common: a group of dedicated students making an impact with their skills and talent. Grady County has been the semester-long focus of a group of students from the New […]

Seven senior advertising majors had the opportunity to join together as Grady’s 8th Creative Collective team, sponsored by PHD, the worldwide media agency. This year, the team spent six months looking into the media lives of 18- to 25-year-olds, part of the elusive Generation Z. They conducted secondary research and more than 110 in-depth interviews […]

Grady College lost another member of its family with the death of Albert L. “Al” Hester on April 11, 2019. Hester was a journalism professor from 1972 to 1997, and the founder and first director of what is now known as the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. While […]

See these other features for other winners of the 78th Annual Peabody Awards: Entertainment and Children’s Programming Documentaries Peabody Career Achievement The Peabody Board of Jurors revealed today winners in News and Radio/Podcast categories, rounding out the Peabody 30 for programs released in 2018. Honorees represent investigative reporting with far-reaching impact, from local news reports […]