Doing Journalism
To further our mission to not only create and showcase journalism at Grady College, but also talk about the process and quality of reporting itself, Doing Journalism features guest curators, reporter annotations and past episodes of The Lead podcast.
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How To Engage in Multimedia Journalism
Students creating their first multiplatform reporting assignment are tasked with engaging their audience in a story that contains several aspects to fully present the narrative, but what does it really mean to shoot photo and video or produce audio and graphics — not to mention write an article? The following…
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The Lead: Daniella Zalcman on reimagining documentary photography
Daniella Zalcman is an award-winning documentary photographer with work in National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and in The New York Times — just to name a few places. She joins The Lead to discuss how photojournalists can reimagine documentary photography to tell compelling stories, the inspiration…
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The Lead: Sean Keenan on Why Housing Reporting is Essential
Sean Keenan’s work can be found in The New York Times, Atlanta Magazine, The Daily Beast and Vice — just to name a few places. Sean is a freelance reporter and he also covers housing for the Atlanta Civic Circle. He joins this episode to talk about why housing reporting is…
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ANNOTATED: Behind the Scenes of The Lead With Kyra Posey
One of Newsource’s three major transparency initiatives is “The Lead” — a podcast about how to get ahead in the news industry by listening to the stories of the people who did. Today we are joined by Kyra Posey, journalism master’s degree student and host of The Lead, for a…
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ANNOTATED: How A UGA Physicist Builds On A Century Of Knowledge To Research The ‘Impossible’
Quantum computers have the power to make calculations that would take our current technology thousands of years to perform, but how are they made? Why are they important? And how does the language we use help our readers join in the conversation? Science journalist Alaina O’Regan answers these questions and…
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The Lead: Ken Foskett on Why the Public Needs Open Records Requests
Ken Foskett recently retired from his role as a senior editor for investigations at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and he has no shortage of stories to tell. He led a reporting team that investigated open records violations in Atlanta, which led to the first-ever criminal investigation of open records violations in…
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The Lead: Max Blau on Practicing Radical Transparency In Interviews
Max Blau is an investigative reporter covering health care, public health, and the environment for ProPublica’s South unit, and during his career as a journalist, he has investigated people, corporations and government agencies that have caused harm in their communities. He joins this episode of “The Lead” to discuss the…
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ANNOTATED: Behind the Scenes of Newsource at 5
On Monday and Wednesday evenings, students in the Newsource broadcast capstone class create Newsource at 5. Over the course of each half-hour show, the broadcast journalism students watch the television packages they’ve spent the day assembling, take turns serving as the anchors and critique their work after the show. However,…
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The Lead: Alex Sujong Laughlin on Investing In Your Passions
Alex Sujong Laughlin paved her own way into podcasting: while working in social media, she taught herself how to produce audio with her own podcast. She went on to create and host podcasts for some of the biggest news brands in the world, including The Washington Post, the New York…
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Grady Tripp, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at TEGNA, February 2022 Guest Curator
To further our mission to talk about process and quality in journalism, each guest curator has highlighted what they see as the “don’t want to miss” pieces posted to Grady Newsource that month, along with some constructive reflection about the journalism. About This Month’s Guest Curator Grady Tripp is vice…