Blog Archive

Please subscribe to the Grady College Conversations podcast. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean. Learn more about all Grady College affiliated podcasts here. This episode features Greg Bluestein (ABJ ’04), political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Greg Bluestein (ABJ ’04), political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined Joe Watson, Tieger professor of public affairs communications, […]

As Americans prepare for another presidential election in 2020, a researcher at Grady College has found that comments left on social media posts about political interviews can, indeed, influence opinions. “Comment sections are extremely powerful,” said David Clementson, an assistant professor of public relations at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the […]

Editor’s note: MG Coffee, the Yarbrough-Grady Public Relations Fellow for the spring 2020 semester, attended the annual PRSSA D.C. Agency Tour with other PRSSA members.   During the last week of January, 12 Grady students and PRSSA members, including myself traveled to Washington, D.C., for the annual PRSSA D.C. Agency Tour. The tour, led by Grady […]

Why did you choose Grady? I chose Grady when I was freshman in college because I had a dream of becoming a news anchor on Good Morning America. Grady taught me that journalism is a much wider field than I had initially imagined. Even though I don’t want to be a news anchor anymore, Grady […]

To add your support for future projects like this, please visit the Giving Voice to the Voiceless commitment webpage. Looking back on history of the first black students at the University of Georgia will bring up names like Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hunter Holmes and Mary Frances Early. While these trailblazers built the foundation for integration at […]

Athens, Ga. — The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has named Allison Chenard, a 23-year-old student from Mooresville, North Carolina, and Mary Gardner “MG” Coffee, a 22-year-old student from Dallas, Texas the Yarbrough-Grady Fellows for Spring 2020.   Chenard is a fourth-year student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in advertising and a […]

Why did you choose Grady? I loved the idea of getting an incredible education through an esteemed program right in my home state. I wanted a school that was the best of the best, but also one that was always working to stay at the top. I chose Grady because it would give me a […]

The James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership hosted NewsCraft20 on Feb. 7, with this year’s topic centered around covering culture. We selected this theme to highlight a type of journalism that reflects society’s insatiable interest in entertainment and lifestyle topics and to illustrate the variety of journalism careers that involve […]

A leading financial adviser and author of a new book, Transparency Wave, encouraged University of Georgia students to prepare for a decade of unprecedented change. “The amount of change and the speed of change we will see in the coming years is unlike anything we’ve seen before,” said Paul Pagnato, CEO Founder of PagnatoKarp, a […]

María E. Len-Ríos, associate dean and public relations professor, recently co-edited and was a co-author in the second edition of “Cross-Cultural Journalism and Strategic Communication: Storytelling and Diversity.” The textbook is also co-edited by Earnest L. Perry, associate dean for graduate studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. The book is a collaborative project featuring […]