Sixteen Carmical Sports Media Institute students covered 2025 NCAA Tournament action, from first-round games to the women’s Final Four in Tampa, through a new partnership with the USA TODAY Sports Network.
Four writers and five photojournalists spent six days covering the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The Associated Press distributed 20 written features and 175 photos to its worldwide audience.
All UGA undergraduates, regardless of major, can apply to our six-course Sports Media Certificate program. We accept applications every fall and spring. Students begin the program in the semester following acceptance.
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Four writers and five photojournalists spent six days covering the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The Associated Press distributed 20 written features and 175 photos to its worldwide audience.
17 Sports Media Certificate and photojournalism students spent their summer in Australia covering the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Six students in the Carmical Sports Media Institute were among the class of 2023 McGill Fellows. Voted by faculty, McGill Fellows are selected based on their strengths in academics, practical experience and leadership. The Sports Media Certificate students selected include Victoria Adkins, Taft Gantt, Cassidy Hettesheimer, Sophie Ralph, Audrie Uphues and Ciera Walker. These fellows […]
The John Huland Carmical Foundation shares our mission of helping sports media students learn from live-event coverage and experiences in the field. We are excited and grateful that Carmical funding is allowing us to go abroad with experiential-learning opportunities. Selected sports media and visual journalism students will travel to Australia next summer to cover the […]
Professor Carlo Finlay is one of eight UGA instructors in the 2022-23 class of UGA Service-Learning Fellows. This year-long faculty program provides development opportunities for selected faculty members to learn best practices in service-learning and community engagement, and to integrate service-learning into their teaching. Finlay’s service-learning project will be based on the work students do […]
Carmical Sports Media Institute students were among 18 UGA students to spend their summer in Oxford learning from Dr. Welch Suggs. Suggs was selected to teach in UGA’s Oxford program for summer 2021. The course was rescheduled to summer 2022 due to the pandemic. The class was a laboratory about how organizations and media outlets […]
The Carmical Sports Media Institute began the Fall 2022 semester with its newest faculty member: David Lawson. He joins UGA after teaching the principles of broadcast media and working in strategic communications at the University of Alabama. He also worked part-time with WCBI-TV in Columbus, Mississippi. He was previously an instructor at Mississippi State University. […]
Professor Andy Johnston joined us last year to teach a section of Multiplatform Storytelling for Sports in Fall 2021 and a section of Introduction to Sports Reporting and Writing in Spring 2022. He continues with those teaching assignments this academic year. He is also the editor of The Oglethorpe Echo, where he leads a team […]
Dayne Young joined the Carmical Sports Media Institute in January 2022 as program coordinator. He creates and shares content on social media, connects with alumni and assists with logistics for the Carmical Institute. In his new role, he also works as the program coordinator for the New Media Institute. Young is a 2011 alumnus of […]
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