Campus News

Journalism professor named Atlanta Mobility Star

Keith Herndon, a visiting professor of journalism at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, was named one of five Atlanta Mobility Stars at the Mobility LIVE! luncheon on Oct. 29.

Herndon was recognized for creating and ­leading Grady’s Mobile News Lab, which launched in fall 2014 and since has trained 42 student ­journalists.

The Atlanta Mobility Stars award is presented by the Mobile Atlanta Task Force, NewsON and the Metro Atlanta Chamber to recipients who have made “a substantial, quantifiable impact in the past year creating and advancing adoption or innovative use of mobile technology, and has helped grow Atlanta’s presence in the center of the mobile world.”