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Athens Bookstore Files First Amendment Rights Lawsuit
Athens-Clarke County
March 20, 2024
Athens Bookstore Files First Amendment Rights Lawsuit
Avid Bookshop in Athens has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Keybo Taylor of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department and Benjamin Hayes of the Gwinnett County Jail after shipments of books to an inmate were rejected. The lawsuit, filed on March 15, targets the jail’s mail policy which states that…
The Lead: Kelsey Coffey on Knowing What Drives You
Doing Journalism
March 15, 2024
The Lead: Kelsey Coffey on Knowing What Drives You
Kelsey Coffey gets up at 2:30 a.m. every day to deliver the morning news as a broadcast reporter at WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2020 into uncertainty from the pandemic and protests for racial justice across the country. But today, she knows…
From Waste to Waves: How Shell to Shore is Working with Restaurants to Save Georgia’s Coastline through Oysters
Environment
March 14, 2024
From Waste to Waves: How Shell to Shore is Working with Restaurants to Save Georgia’s Coastline through Oysters
When Hunt Revell and Tyler Leslie worked at Seabear Oyster Bar in Athens, they were struck by how many oyster shells they threw in the trash each day. The duo didn’t yet know that these shells could be tools for coastal restoration, but they knew throwing them away seemed wasteful. …
Grady Newsource Introduces New Tool to Measure Impact
Media
March 2, 2024
Grady Newsource Introduces New Tool to Measure Impact
A widget has begun to pop up on several of Grady Newsource’s articles, raising questions. Three students at the University of Georgia, Sarah Fredrickson, Allison Mawn and Jesse Wood, have made it into the final 10 for the 2024 Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Innovation Competition representing UGA’s Grady College of…