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Robby Thomas (ABJ ’04) is the vice president and general manager of WIS-TV, a television station in Columbia, South Carolina, affiliated with NBC. Born and raised in rural Nahunta, Georgia, the work ethic Thomas learned on his family’s farm helped him graduate magna cum laude with a degree in advertising from Grady College, where he also anchored […]

Jenna Monnin is graduating with dual majors in journalism and political science major, and has also earned a Public Affairs Communications certificate. She has served as a Tieger Fellow for the PAC program, a student volunteer for Grady Newsource and a Panhellenic delegate and nomination committee chair for her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. During her […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 35 winners elected to represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting, streaming, and interactive media during 2022. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 32 jurors from over 1,400 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web/digital in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, […]

Shari Frilot Wins 1st Annual Visionary Award The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors today announced the 42 nominees for the following categories: Entertainment, Arts, Children’s/Youth, Podcast/Radio, Interactive & Immersive, and Public Service. The nominees represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2022. The nominees were chosen by a […]

ATHENS, GA (April 5, 2023) – Peabody today announced that TODAY, NBC’s NEWS’ pioneering morning news program, has won the Institutional Award. For over 70 years, TODAY’s live broadcasts have provided viewers with entertaining and important top-of-the-day connections to news, politics, celebrity, sports, home life, and weather.  Selected by the Peabody Board of Jurors, the […]

Chiamaka Uwagerikpe is a third-year advertising major from Suwanee, Georgia, involved with Talking Dog Agency, the Student Industry Fellows Program and the UGA Visitor’s Center. She’s also a Strike Magazine content intern and has served as an ambassador for Gurls Talk, promoting the mental health and wellbeing of young women and girls. To Uwagerikpe, tenacity […]

  Students put their disinformation skills to the test in April at the inaugural What the Hackathon event hosted by the Cox Institute. Students met in Studio 100, where they formed teams to address three disinformation challenges. The groups identified markers of fake news, determined the validity of a post circulating in a private Facebook […]

Students in the Cox Institute’s Journalism Innovation and Writing Labs were recognized on April 21 for their work during the 2022–23 school year. They received a medal, certificate and a printed copy of their work, which also served as centerpieces for the tables in the Peyton Anderson Forum. Lori Johnston, the director of the Journalism […]

Grady College students will work side by side with documentarians in the field under an exciting new experiential learning partnership with the World War II Foundation. Five Grady College students and Sanghoon Lee of the MFA Film, Television and Digital Media faculty will travel to France this summer to serve as production assistants for a […]

Work created by students in Grady College’s Department of Entertainment and Media Studies earned high recognition at this year’s Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competition.  Benjamin Otten, an EMST student from Athens, Georgia, earned an award of excellence in the competition’s narrative category for his short film “As it Lies.” Likewise, Sherry […]