Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
“If you know you want to be a journalist, you’ve just got to stick it out, and you’ve got to suffer a little bit sometimes,” said Grady alumna Victoria Knight, a reporter at Kaiser Health News.
“There are many pathways to accomplish what you set out to accomplish. Be flexible to see what that looks like,” says Grady grad Felicia Harris.
Don’t just do the minimum. Find something that you’re interested in, says Grady alumna Christina Banister, health communication specialist at the CDC.
Sometimes it doesn’t have a health headline or a health-focused lead. But every story is either a cause or an effect of something related to public health, says Erica Hensley, investigative reporter Mississippi Today.
Young scientists bring their abstracts and journalism students try to interpret them at a fall workshop, hosted by Glen Nowak, director of UGA’s Center for Health & Risk Communication and Sabriya Rice, Health & Medical Journalism Knight Chair.