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News Articles
It’s podcast season at UGA
May 1, 2024It’s podcast season at UGA! Check out these Bulldog-led channels that make it their mission to educate while inspiring their peers through storytelling. Georgia on your Mind: This Emerging Media capstone project allows students to apply skills from their courses in web development, user experience, app development,…
The Peabody Awards Are Moving to Sunny California
March 4, 2024This year, the famous Peabody Awards ceremony will be hosted in Los Angeles for the first time in its 84-year history. Previously hosted in New York City, this year's ceremony will take place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on June 9th in LA.
Short-form Journalists Turns Author
February 1, 2024What is your X factor? Explore what makes you exceptional and develop it. Grady Alum Polina Marinova Pompliano shares how she uncovers news-worthy subjects' X factors.
Low-Residency visiting writers infuse podcast content.
September 5, 2023One of the many benefits of the Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Media Writing are the two required, on campus residencies over the course of the program. These two 8-day residencies allow students to immerse themselves in an intensive writing environment and provide students with the opportunity to build a…
The Peabody Awards – An Honor Like No Other
May 16, 2023The Peabody Awards is an honor like no other with a history like no other. Housed at University of Georgia’s Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Peabody Awards celebrate excellence in entertainment in documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, youth, and public service programming. The awards are presented…
MFA Nonfiction Alum Fulfills Dream
April 13, 2023Tracy Coley graduated in 2019 from the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing with a concentration in Narrative Nonfiction. She is the former editor of the local lifestyle publication Boom Magazine, teaches undergraduate journalism part-time at the University of Georgia and recently launched Lucky Dog Press,…
UGA alumna values flexibility in Low-Residency MFA
November 17, 2020Samantha Bresnahan graduated from UGA in 2018 from the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing program. Bresnahan pursued this degree while working for CNN International in their global features unit, where she has produced and written special programs and documentaries for 11 years. “I’ve had…
MFA Student Lands Book Deal First Year in the Program
August 6, 2020Pursuing a graduate degree at UGA had been a desire of Brandon Fleming’s for some time. Initially, he wanted to continue his studies in English or Social Science, however, he was recruited by Valerie Boyd, Director of UGA’s Narrative Nonfiction MFA program. “We connected in another capacity and…
Low-Residency MFA Program Launches Narrative Media Podcast
March 10, 2020UGA’s Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Media Writing program launched its very own podcast in February, 2020. Called Hear-Tell, the podcast focuses on telling true stories, and each episode dives deep into well researched and reported narrative writing by current UGA students, alumni, faculty and visiting lecturers in Grady’s…
John T. Edge Set to speak at UGA annual Signature Lecture Event
October 30, 2019John T. Edge, a nonfiction mentor in our low-residency MFA in Narrative Media Writing, will be speaking at UGA Signature Lecture speakers event. The event will feature 11 writers and authors awarded for their multidisciplinary appeal and compelling bodies of work. Edge is a two-time James Beard…