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. […]

Our worlds are colliding as Tom White has settled into his new job as broadcast engineer for the College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is already streamlining and revamping the production process in the Sportsource studio, control room and newsroom. Recent alumni remember White as the teacher for Morgan County High School’s Digital Media […]

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 […]

Sports Media @ UGA is expanding with the establishment of the John Huland Carmical Sports Media Institute. Plans are underway for a sports media-specific study abroad program, an annual lecture series and periodic symposia. Sports Media Certificate students will be able to receive financial assistance with travel and housing costs related to internships and other […]

In spring semester 2020, we debuted a new course: Social and Digital Media Production for Sports. The class is designed to prepare students to work in a rapidly growing segment of sports media. In the class, students develop digital platforms and social streams for sports at a local high school. They learn how to use […]