Department of Journalism, Grady College, University of Georgia

Ten percent of the 20 best photos from the Women's World Cup (according to SkySports) were made by students - including the lead by Katie Tucker and the levitating goalie by Jessica Gratigny.

20 of the best images from the Women's World Cup

Our Advanced Photojournalism class spent the day at the Georgia National Fair on Saturday. Thirteen students were coached by six pros, tasked with not showing what the fair looks like, but what it means.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a gallery of their work today.

This workshop was funded by the Don E. Carter and Carolyn MacKenzie Journalism Excellence Fun.

UGA students photograph a day at the fair For the last eight years, students in the Advanced Photojournalism course at the University of Georgia’s College of Journalism and Mass Communication have headed down to Perry for a long day covering the Georgia National Fair. Starting at 7:30 a.m., the students spread out across the fairgrounds t...

Students in the Advanced Photojournalism course spent the opening weeks of the semester telling the stories of people impacted by the September 11 attacks. We began publishing them yesterday in the Instagram feed ( https://www.instagram.com/p/CTp8OSMrwYD/?utm_medium=copy_link ) and continue to publish throughout today on Newsource ( https://gradynewsource.uga.edu ).

Powerful stories you should pay attention to.

Shannon Allen, wife of late Master Sgt. Mark Allen Photo and Interview by Sydney Fordice @sydneyfordicephoto We were at work together actually - not in the same room specifically but in the same building when everything happened. It was just a lot of chaos. And of course, he was who I was thinking about, even though we were friends at that point, not together yet. Being part of the National Guard I knew they would potentially get called up. But he was thinking, “When can we go?” It was kind of when everything changed. I didn't have any experience with this kind of stuff before with, you know, my friends getting killed overseas, which of course happened on their first deployment to Iraq in '05. He came back home and then deployed to combat in Afghanistan in 2009. We had our daughter in June of 2008. He left on her first birthday. And then it was only a month later to the day that he was shot. They're in a firefight on the ground, and a sniper, through the helmet right to the head. We spent about three months in the hospital where he spent the first couple of weeks on a ventilator in an induced coma. Then we moved down to a rehab facility where we spent two years. He could start to use one hand to give a thumbs up and answer questions correctly. So we had that all the way up until the end -- laughs, smiles, a little bit of movement from the one hand, and that was really it. But that was enough, because he was there. He lived for almost eight years here in the house. We had a nurse in our house 24/7, which is amazing and also awful. Imagine there's a person in your home who is not you or your family 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. There's just always someone in your space. (Continues …)

Each year, students and faculty nominate someone for the department's Teacher of the Year. We didn't get to celebrate with Lori Johnston last spring, so we did it today. Prof. Johnston spent years helping the department as an adjunct and now serves as a Lecturer of Journalism.

Our new partnership with The Bitter Southerner already producing amazing results!

Charlayne Hunter-Gault: We Have ALWAYS Overcome — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER Legendary journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault brings past and present civil rights leaders to the forefront of her guest editor week.

The Department of Journalism will be partnering with the Athens Banner-Herald/OnlineAthens.com to launch the Athens Equality Lab next year. Funding to hire two journalists is coming from Report For America.

Banner-Herald to create 'Athens Equality Lab', add 2 journalists through Report For America The Athens Banner-Herald will receive a grant from Report for America to develop the Athens Equality Lab, which will focus on equity, diversity and inclusivity issues.

Thursday night, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is going to have a session for students about getting work and networking. The panel is pretty great - Maura Friedman, UGA alum and photo editor at National Geographic; Ryan Carty, UGA alum and a recruiter for Facebook and former senior recruiter for Tegna; Victor Hernandez, Executive Editor at Cascade Public Media; Sandra Brown, Senior Editor, Visuals at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The seminar this year is all online and free. Details at

The 2020 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar — Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Schedule, Information and Registration for the 2020 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

Faculty from the Department of Journalism try to gather for lunch each month. Sometimes it’s just a few, sometimes it’s a crowd, but it’s always filled with idea sharing and laughter.

With professors Karin Assmann, Lori Johnston and Amanda Bright.

Picture editing and sequencing exercises in the Photo Cave with the Documentary Photojournalism students. Each student was assigned one building to document for a Sense of Place assignment, then they worked in teams to sequence the 12 images into a logical flow.

On a Tuesday, students in one of the Introduction to Photojournalism classes were out on the front lawn of Grady working with their cameras. Two days later, the tornado sirens went off and those same students headed out of the Photo Cave and into the halls to cover the news as a building-full of staff, faculty and students sought shelter on the first floor.

For the second year, students in Grady’s photojournalism program met their counterparts from the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga in downtown Dahlonega for an Instagram Shootout. They were given two challenge words and 90 minutes to post photos on Instagram, then two judges scored the teams.

The trophy is now adorned with two red Georgua stripes for our back-to-back victories. Head over to Instagram and search the hashtag to see the work.

If it's spring and we're in rural Georgia, it must be the Woodall Weekend Workshop. This year we have 18 students and eight professionals working as coaches in Lumpkin County for three days of visual storytelling and exploration.