Society & Culture

Media Advisory: UGA McGill Symposium report now online

Athens, Ga. – The complete report from the October 2010 McGill Symposium, held at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, is now available at www.grady.uga.edu/mcgill/symposium/.

Each year, leading journalists from across the U.S. gather for the daylong symposium to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors.

Participating 2010 symposium journalists included Javier Garza, editorial director of El Siglo de Torreon, Mexico; Eric Gay, Associated Press, San Antonio; Aaron Glantz, editor, New American Media, San Francisco; Hank Klibanoff, managing director, The Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, Emory University, Atlanta; Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief, ProPublica, New York City; and Kayla Williams, Truman National Security Project Fellow and author of Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.