Tag: Local Stuff

The Intercollegiate Online News Network’s Annual Conference will be here in Athens, Ga., on January 13 and 14–just a week away. Registration is open until noon on January 10 (and dirt cheap at $15 for students, $25 for faculty and professionals) and includes admission to the Thursday night banquet and lunch on Friday. We’ve lined up folks from a bunch...

This Wednesday, October 20, we’re hosting the fourth annual McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage. If you’re in town, swing by the Drewry Room in Grady College at 12:15 as we’ll have the Associated Press’ Eric Gay talking about his Katrina coverage – an amazing body of work. For some insight into his work, check out the Digital Journalist article from...

This showed up in my mailbox … The Dawn of Recording: Unearthing Sounds from the 1800s presented by John Maltese, Political Science, 1996 Grammy winner and collector of early sound recordings. Tuesday, January 26 at 4 p.m. in room 171 of the Miller Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

On Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:15 in the Drewry Room of Grady College, Furman Bisher will be talking. Bisher has been a sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the former president of a whole bunch of sports journalism organizations. Good opportunity to learn a lot in a short time about sports journalism.