Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection

08/06/2026

We're excited to announce that Brown Media has received funding through a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize Cleveland F. Lassiter's recordings of African American churches and choral performances and Historically Black Colleges and Universities!

Mr. Lassiter, a school and church counselor, recorded African American church and musical experiences on audio cassette recordings which span from 1969 to 2004 and VHS recordings from the 1990s until 2004.

Find the Cleveland and Dorothy Lassiter Audiovisual Materials Collection on our website here: https://bmac.libs.uga.edu/Detail/collections/3612
And see more information about the CLIR Recordings at Risk funded projects here: https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/funded-projects/

07/24/2026

https://richardlorbermedia.substack.com/p/from-nobody-to-peabody-and-the-weight

Let me pick up where I left off, and then go somewhere else.

06/11/2026

On this date in 1973, a group of Foxfire students interviewed Pearl Martin about soap making. Thousands of hours of interviews are preserved here in . You can read more about Foxfire's history and see a great photo of Pearl Martin and the students here in Garden & Gun. https://gardenandgun.com/foxfire-heritage-day

05/06/2026

Today, we mourn the passing of Ted Turner, the Georgia man who revolutionized the broadcast media industry. Thankfully, his story will live on. We are proud to share Turner's legacy through the memorabilia and documents on display at the Ted Turner Exhibition Hall and Ted Turner Gallery at the UGA Special Collections Libraries Building. We are deeply honored that Turner chose our Special Collections Libraries for the privilege of sharing his story.

05/06/2026

We were saddened to learn about the passing of Ted Turner, a titan of the media industry. Mr. Turner was a generous donor to the University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries. Our exhibition hallway is named in his honor and features two cases that continue to focus on major themes tied to his life and legacy: broadcast media and the environment.

In 1970, Turner purchased an independent, ultra-high frequency television station in Atlanta, Georgia. Leveraging communication satellites to expand the reach of this local station, he created the first ever Superstation. By the end of the decade, WTCG-Atlanta boasted an unprecedented 4.8 million subscribers across the country, and Turner had revolutionized cable television. In 1980, he bet on the future again with the launch of the first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network (CNN). In the decades that followed, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. built a portfolio of unrivaled cable television news and entertainment brands and businesses, including CNN Headline News, CNN International, TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies. At the helm of his businesses until a 1996 merger with Time Warner, Inc., Turner forever changed the modern media landscape.

He was also an influential philanthropist who directed considerable resources toward the preservation and protection of the natural world. In 1990, he founded the Turner Foundation, which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates. Since its creation, the foundation has given more than $400 million to organizations that support its mission and goals. In 1997, he announced a historic pledge of $1 billion to the United Nations. That funding established the United Nations Foundation, an organization that supports UN causes across the globe, including health, gender equality, human rights and humanitarian response.