THE PEABODY CENTER FOR MEDIA AND SOCIETY

The goals of The Peabody Center for Media and Society are:

  • to establish the premier site for reasoned deliberation of increasingly significant connections linking electronic media and vital social topics and issues

  • to address the policy communities dealing with these issues

  • to survey and assess changes that have occurred and those now taking place with regard to media, culture, and society

  • to engage and inform the public with regard to media-related matters that touch daily experience

To accomplish these goals the Center will become the home of:

The Peabody Seminars
www.peabody.uga.edu/peabodyseminars

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PEABODY PRODUCED DOCUMENTARY “THE MAKING OF ‘KNOW HIV/AIDS FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS: PROTECT YOURSELF CAMPAIGN’” NOW AVAILABLE

Written by Eric Holder, University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Public Relations department head, the Peabody Awards

ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia’s Peabody Awards program is offering radio and television news directors and medical communicators an instructional documentary aimed at encouraging the creation of more and better health and medical content for electronic media.… read more

Morley Safer to host 64th annual Peabody Awards on May 16

Written by Eric Holder, University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Public Relations department head, the Peabody Awards

Athens, Ga. – Veteran CBS News correspondent and “60 Minutes” co-editor Morley Safer will host the 64th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony to be held Monday, May 16, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York.

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“Hotel Rwanda” Screening Benefits Sudanese Victims

Written by Eric Holder, University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Public Relations department head, the Peabody Awards

ATHENS, Ga. — A capacity crowd of 500 packed the University of Georgia Tate Theater last week to watch a special 35mm pre-release screening of “Hotel Rwanda,” and support the Sudan programs of Amnesty International and the International Crisis Group.
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International media professionals to meet at UGA for the Inaugural Peabody Seminar to discuss “Global Implications of Media Industry Consolidation”

Written by Eric Holder, University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Public Relations department head, the Peabody Awards

Athens, Ga. — The Peabody Center for Media and Society at the University of Georgia`s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will convene the inaugural Peabody Seminar at UGA Nov.

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Peabody Awards Archive staff discover lost episode of “The Jackie Gleason Show” featuring “The Honeymooners”

Written by Eric Holder, University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Public Relations department head, the Peabody Awards

 

Athens, Ga. – Within its massive collection of radio and television programs, staff in the Peabody Awards Archive at the University of Georgia has discovered a new “lost episode” of the acclaimed television comedy “The Honeymooners.”
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