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Ralph Emerson McGill was an American journalist and editorialist. An anti-segregationist editor, he published the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1945 to 1968. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959.
Bill Shanks is an American sports broadcaster and writer.
The East Bay Express is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is distributed throughout Alameda County and parts of Contra Costa County every Wednesday.
The Telegraph, frequently called The Macon Telegraph, is the primary print news organ in Middle Georgia. It is the third-largest newspaper in the State of Georgia. Founded in 1826, The Telegraph has undergone several name changes, mergers, and publishers. As of June 2006, the paper is owned by The McClatchy Company, a publicly traded American publishing company.
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is a constituent college of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. Established in 1915, Grady College offers undergraduate degrees in journalism, advertising, public relations, and entertainment and media studies, and master's and doctoral programs of study. Grady has consistently been ranked among the top schools of journalism education and research in the U.S.
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia every spring. Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year. The festival, held to coincide with the typical blooming period, lasts for ten days and features events for people of all ages. It has been an annual event since 1982, though the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WUXL is a radio station in Macon, Georgia, owned by Clifton G. Moor, through licensee B&GRS Enterprises, LLC. It is currently an urban contemporary gospel radio station.
The 11th Hour News Weekly was an arts and entertainment alternative weekly published in Macon, Statesboro and Valdosta, Georgia. Beginning in Statesboro in 2001 as a newsletter on bars and nightclubs, it developed into a full-scale A&E publication, featuring leisure events in the college town. In 2003, The 11th Hour opened a main office in Macon. With its growing popularity, the newsweekly expanded distribution of the Macon version to the surrounding Middle Georgia cities of Milledgeville and Warner Robins. Valdosta's version of The 11th Hour began in 2004; its readers are students at Valdosta State University and other supporters of the South Georgia art community
Gregg Doyel is a sports columnist for the Indianapolis Star, formerly a national sports writer for CBSSports.com, who four times has been named the country's top sports columnist by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Doyel has earned 15 APSE Top 10 awards, eight for columns, including firsts in 2014, '17, '19 and '22. In 2023 he was named one of the 250 most influential people in Indiana by the Indianapolis Business Journal.
Cleland Lindsay "Keke" Mortson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 73 games in the World Hockey Association for the Houston Aeros. His hockey career spanned 27 years, which included playing more than 1,000 games in minor league hockey, and 576 games in the American Hockey League. Mortson was posthumously inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Nu-Way Weiners, Inc., is a company that operates a chain of fast food restaurants in the Middle Georgia area. The first Nu-Way restaurant opened in Macon, Georgia, United States, on February 27, 1916, at 218 Cotton Avenue in downtown Macon. Nu-Way is known for its iconic hot dogs – unique for their red color. Nu-Way also serves an extensive breakfast menu which includes egg platters, bacon & egg sandwiches, spicy dog biscuits, pancakes, etc. In addition Nu-Way is famous for their hamburgers which include their chili-burgers, cheeseburgers and Mega-Burgers.
Sheila T. Stroup is a "Living" section columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Her column, rather than dealing with the celebrated news events of the day, invariably has to do with perceptions of the otherwise-unnoticed aspects of life, particularly in her native Northshore Region. Part of her style is to refer to her husband Merwin by his surname alone, Stroup.
William Henderson was a former American football player and coach. Henderson had coached for Furman University, the University of South Carolina, and four high schools. Henderson was a native of Georgia, graduated from high school in Macon, and was an alumnus of the University of Georgia (UGA). At UGA, Henderson was on the football and baseball teams.
Eugene Corbett Patterson, sometimes known as Gene Patterson, was an American journalist and civil rights activist. He was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
The Macon Whoopees were a minor league professional ice hockey team based in Macon, Georgia, and played home games at the Macon Coliseum. The Whoopees played in the Southern Hockey League, and were the second professional hockey team in Georgia. The attempt in Macon to expand hockey southward failed, as the team ceased operations before completion of the 1973–74 season. Hockey did not return to Macon until 1996, when the name was revived by the Macon Whoopee in the Central Hockey League. The original Whoopees team was named after the song "Makin' Whoopee" by Gus Kahn, and is the subject of the book Once Upon A Whoopee: A Town, A Team, A Song, A Dream, by Ed Grisamore and Bill Buckley.
Rochelle Riley is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. She formerly was a nationally syndicated columnist for the Detroit Free Press in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She was an advocate in her column for improved race relations, literacy, community building, and children.
Susan "Sue" Dowdell Myrick was an American journalist, educator, author, and conservationist. Her friendship with author Margaret Mitchell led to Myrick's role as a technical advisor and dialect coach during the production of Gone with the Wind (1939), ensuring the film accurately portrayed the accents, customs, and manners of the South. Due to this expertise she has been called the "Emily Post of the South". Myrick also was a columnist, reporter, and associate editor for Macon-based newspaper The Telegraph, working at the paper for fifty years.
Jacqueline Garton Crosby is an American journalist. She won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Specialized Reporting with Randall Savage for investigating athletics and academics at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech.
The Macon News was a newspaper in Georgia, United States that operated from 1884 to 1983.