Thursday, March 28, 2013
"The latest Peabody recipients reflect diversity in content, genre and sources of origination," Holston says.
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Thursday, March 28
By Noel Holston Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced March 27th by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2012, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA Campus. The latest Peabody recipients reflect diversity in content, genre and sources of origination. They include “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy-drama about the young and the feckless in New York; “Putin, Russia and the West,” a compelling portrait of a modern-day czar; “Rapido y Furioso (Fast and Furious),” Univision’s Mexican perspective on the infamous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Davis earned his master's degree from UGA.
UGA President-elect Jere Morehead named Charles Davis the Dean of the Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Notorious murder in downtown Athens remains unsolved.
It happened early one April morning, 20 years ago--a day that began breezy and cool, much like today. A University of Georgia student, on the brink of graduation and a promising advertising career, was robbed, sexually assaulted and strangled in her downtown Athens house, two blocks from campus. In 1992, downtown Athens was transitioning from a sleepy retail center to a bustling residential and entertainment district. The crack trade still thrived at night in some Athens side streets, but it was possible by day to window shop along downtown’s tree-lined main streets and have no idea of any illicit activity on the district’s fringes. In 1985, a couple had restored the old Presbyterian manse at Clayton and Hull streets, as well as a small …
Saturday, January 14, 2012
The legendary journalism teacher and former AP executive dies from prostate cancer.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Conrad Fink, who joined the faculty of the Grady College in 1983, died Saturday after a recurrence of prostate cancer. He was 80 and had worked as a foreign correspondent and executive with the Associated Press before joining the UGA faculty. "He put up a good battle with cancer for many many years, he kept himself in as good shape as he could. He told me he was going to teach absolutely for as long as he could, and I guess he did," said Al Hester, a retired Grady professor. He first met Fink in Dallas, Texas, when Fink was working for the AP. "He did a lot of good things for many students and was really was popular with a lot of them," Hester said. "I watched him from the time he started with us, and I saw something in him that other …
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Interesting work goes on for students and viewers at 5:30, too.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
From Monday to Thursday at 5 p.m., UGA students in the Grady College broadcast NewSource15, an evening news show carried by both WUGA-TV and Charter Cable Channel 15. The half-hour show covers mainly what’s happening in Athens, and students handle all the work with faculty members looking over their shoulders. Grady College students have been doing this for nearly 20 years, but this fall there is something different: viewers can sit in on the behind-the- scenes analysis of what went right and wrong on the air. Those who watch can interact with those who create. A post-mortem of the show has always taken place, but viewers weren’t invited. It was meant purely as a learning experience for students. Professional instructors provide feedback …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Accident simulation leaves two "dead," others puzzled.
At 3 o’clock on Wednesday near the Grady College, a bus collided with a car, leaving two dead and others injured. More or less. The accident was staged by the Management Seminar for College News Editors (MSCNE) for its participants. The students in the seminar attend colleges in over 20 states, coming from as far as The University of Alaska at Anchorage. Among the participants was Polina Marinova, Editor-in-Chief of UGA’s The Red and Black. Marinova’s role was to report the event and speak to victims and witnesses at the scene. “At first, I thought no one would really take the event seriously because they knew it was simulated,” said Marinova of the simulation. “However, once it was announced, everyone focused and really got into their …
Rebecca McCarthy
12:40 pm on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Well put, Mike! : ) more ›