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• Daphne Musslewhite, former Thompson publisher, dies.(Obituary)(Brief article)

  - 2007-10-22

  Daphne Musslewhite, who retired as publisher of Thompson Publishing Group in 2002, died October 17, 2007. The Arlington, Virginia, resident spent most of her Washington journalism career, beginning in 1969, at Thompson. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Daphne graduated from the University of...

  Tags: CAREER, Georgia, journalism, Strategy, Thompson, University of Georgia

• The Sixty-fourth Annual George Foster Peabody Awards Presentation Luncheon.(PEABODY SIXTY FOURTH ANNUAL AWARDS)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-05-16

  Administered by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication The Peabody Awards Presentation luncheon is made possible through the generous support of The Coca-Cola Company THE SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL...

  Tags: Journalism, University of Georgia

• University of Georgia Grady College Professor Warns of Increased Governmental Pressures on Broadcasters and College Press.(Kent Middleton)

  - 2005-03-08

  Byline: University of Georgia Athens, Ga., March 8 AScribe Newswire -- The Federal Communications Commission FCC is inhibiting broadcasters and university administrators are threatening student press freedoms, according to a University of Georgia journalism professor. Broadcasters have become skittish since the...

  Tags: broadcaster, FCC, Government, journalism, University of Georgia

• Georgia Professor Named Freedom Forum Journalism Teacher Of The Year

  - 2002-07-22

  ARLINGTON, Va., July 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Conrad C. Fink, journalism professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, has been named one of three Journalism Teachers of the Year by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech...

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• 60TH ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS.(exhaustive history, profiles of winners)

  - 2001-05-21

  THE PEABODY AWARDS The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, cable enterprises, networks, producing organizations and individuals. They perpetuate the memory of the banker-philanthropist whose name they bear. The awards program...

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• This Week In Black History

  - 2000-01-17

  January 10, 1961 * Charlayne Hunter-Gault became the first Black woman student at the University of Georgia on this day. A native of Due West, SC, she graduated from Turner High School in Atlanta, determined to earn a degree in journalism. The segregated University of Georgia UGA was the...

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• In My Place. - book reviews

  - 1993-06-01

  In the realm of civil rights and journalism, Charlayne Hunter-Gault figures prominently. Her first claim came in 1961 when she and Hamilton Holmes desegregated the University of Georgia. Today, she is well-known for her probing interviews and commentaries on PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. These facets of her life...

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