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Student from Cumming named a McGill Fellow
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FORSYTH COUNTY — Twelve undergraduate and graduate students, including one from Cumming, have been named McGill Fellows by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

According to a news release from the school, the recipients include Nick Suss is a senior majoring in magazines.

Diane Murray, public service faculty and director of the McGill program in Journalistic Courage, chaired the committee. In a statement, she said the students were selected by a faculty committee “for their strengths in academics, practical experience and leadership.”

As a McGill Fellow, Suss will participate in the McGill Symposium, which brings together students, faculty and leading journalists to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors.

He will attend the McGill Lecture, which will be presented by Kathy Gannon, special regional correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Associated Press.

Following the symposium, he will help select the eighth recipient of the McGill Medal, awarded annually to a U.S. journalist whose career has exemplified journalistic courage.

Lastly, he will have first priority to enroll in a one-hour, independent study on journalistic courage, to be taught by Murray next spring.

For more than 30 years, the McGill Lecture has brought significant figures in journalism to the University of Georgia to help us honor Ralph McGill’s courage as the editor and publisher of The Atlanta Constitution during the 1960s.