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Karen Russell, a Jim Kennedy New Media Professor at Grady College, has written a new book, “Promoting Monopoly: AT&T and the Politics of Public Relations, 1876-1941.” “Promoting Monopoly,” examines the publicity efforts of the competitive industry from the invention of the telephone in 1876 through its early years when Alexander Graham Bell’s patents expired and […]

The Scripps Howard Foundation has awarded a grant to the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership for a poverty reporting initiative. The grant of $7,500 will fund the Cox Institute’s plans to use reporting on poverty as the topic for its student projects in the Fall 2020 Journalism Innovation Lab. […]

Grady College faculty, students, friends and industry partners gathered Sept. 29, 2016, to dedicate the office and journalism innovation lab of the The James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership. “It is always a great day at Grady when we can come together and celebrate another milestone in the evolution of […]

Richard T. Griffiths, vice president and senior editorial director at CNN, will serve as an Industry Fellow with the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership during the spring 2017 semester at the University of Georgia. Griffiths, who has worked for CNN for 25 years and has announced his CNN retirement […]

Students at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication now have a new way to learn from people who have made it in the media industry: The Lead. Daniel Funke, a fall 2016 Innovation Fellow with the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership, produced the first six podcasts of The […]

It’s been an eventful summer for Lexie Little. The season started out in a great way for the journalism graduate student when she heard she was the recipient of a coveted Hearst Award, and the summer has only intensified as her master’s thesis topic has become one of the talked-about topics of the summer—the study […]

The Peabody Awards has partnered with PBS for a roundtable special featuring the filmmakers of this year’s 10 Peabody documentary winners. The co-production, “Peabody Presents: Best in Documentary,” will celebrate the films while encouraging in-depth discussion around the social issues they address. Earlier this month, Peabody announced its 30 winners, a collection of stories that […]

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. You can also hear it on Spotify. Learn more about Grady College podcasts here.  Jonathan Peters, assistant professor in journalism, joins Dayne Young on Grady College Conversations. He teaches communication law to students across the college. In this episode, Peters discusses the rights of journalists when covering protests in […]

The following was written and reprinted with permission by Lauren Morgan Patrick (ABJ ’07), editor of Pretty Southern.com, a website that shares stories about Southerners doing great work in the region and beyond. The Q&A below was originally published on the Pretty Southern website. In addition to her website, Lauren can be found on Twitter. […]

The following was written by Mark Johnson, senior lecturer, journalism, and was originally published on his blog, VisualJournalism.info. Current and former students are covering protests across the country. We spent some time in classes on spot news coverage, but nothing we did prepared them for the events of our times. Some thoughts on what to […]