Resume

• 1995

  Vicki

  Michaelis

  The Denver Post

  University of Georgia

  Beats included the Denver Nuggets

  University of Colorado football and basketball

  Olympics and skiing.

  The Denver Post

  University of Georgia

  Athens

  Georgia

  Director of an interdisciplinary sports media certificate program at UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. The program prepares UGA undergraduates for careers in print and online sports journalism

  sports broadcasting and production

  and sports media relations and communication. Courses focus on storytelling across platforms

  including social media and video. Students also study special topics such as college sports and the media

  sports and social change

  sports economics and analytics

  and sports law.

  Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism and Society

  Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Journalism

• 1991

  The Palm Beach Post

  USA TODAY

  Beats included high school sports

  University of Miami football

  professional tennis and the Miami Heat.

  The Palm Beach Post

  Lead Olympics reporter/Denver bureau sports writer

  Held lead Olympics post through six Games for national media outlet. Also covered a variety of other sports in the Rocky Mountain region

  including the NFL

  NBA

  MLB and college football.

  USA TODAY

• Grady College

  Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is centrally located on the University of Georgia campus in Athens

  Georgia. The Department of Advertising and Public Relations offers two majors: advertising or public relations. The Department of Journalism offers students with a journalism major a choices of an area of emphasis: magazine journalism

  public affairs journalism

  publication management or visual journalism.

  UGA is home to the first undergraduate sports media certificate in the SEC.

  Stories by Vicki Michaelis : Contently

  For 20 years

  I covered sports for a living. Now I teach others how to do it. I still write when I can.

  Stories by Vicki Michaelis : Contently