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During the pandemic, The Red & Black has shown the power of well-informed, local investigative reporting. Learn how student reporters from The Red & Black have researched and reported on COVID-19, navigating a complex and often politicized information landscape. Also in attendance will be faculty from Journalism and Public Health, who can share their expertise on how to consume and communicate accurate data and information around science and public health.

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Join the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection for a week-long celebration of Home Movie Day 2020! On Tuesday October 13 at 2 p.m., the Brown Media Archives will host a virtual tour of their home movie collections. Media archivists and audiovisual technicians will discuss and narrate some of their favorite home movies from the archives. They will also talk about the importance of home movies and how Brown Media Archives preserves and provides access to decades of amateur home films.

Historically the American political poster has been sorely neglected as an art form and has played a minor cultural role despite its effectiveness in conveying a political message to millions of voters often through the skillful use of visual communication. Join the Richard B.

Join UGA Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Georgia Review in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame with a lecture by W. Ralph Eubanks. The event is part of the 2020 Spotlight on the Arts Festival.

Join the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection for a week-long celebration of Home Movie Day 2020! On Thursday October 15 at 7 p.m., artist Keith Bennett will discuss via livestream his home movie collection, housed at the Brown Media Archives. Bennett’s collection features several videos of the B-52's performing and touring in the 1970s and 1980s, as he is married to band vocalist Cindy Wilson. Bennett will discuss his experiences traveling with and filming the famous Athens band in the early days.

Featuring vibrant hostess DeAundra Peek, the American Music Show ran as a public access cable television program in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1981 to 2005.

Part detective, part historian, archival researchers find the audiovisual traces of history that help documentary filmmakers bring history to life. If you're a history buff, you've probably watched documentaries featuring archival photographs and film. But how do the pieces of the puzzle come together to make a documentary? More importantly, where do those puzzle pieces come from? The Walter J.

Do you have a historical map you’d like to overlay with a modern one? Or an air photo you’d like to match to today’s landscape? We’ll use QGIS to do just that.

We’ll use QGIS to combine tables with available geometry to turn make a map.