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Alan Griggs papers

Alan Griggs papers

Descriptive Summary

Title: Alan Griggs papers
Creator: Griggs, Alan L., 1950-
Inclusive Dates: 1976-1981
Language(s): English
Extent: 2 Linear Feet 2 boxes
Collection Number: ms4599
Repository: Hargrett Library

Collection Description

Historical Note

Alan Griggs holds an ABJ in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia and an MA in Organizational Communication from Western Kentucky University. He has served as professor and adjunct professor at several institutions including Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee and Western Kentucky University. Griggs has extensive experience as a broadcast journalist, primarily with WSMV-TV, Nashville, and WBZ-TV, Boston, as an investigative reporter and news director. Griggs has been awarded three Peabody awards, two National Headliner awards, a duPont-Columbia citation, and the Robert F. Kennedy award for a year-long investigative effort. He is the author of two books.

Scope and Content

This collection contains five years of reporter's notebooks and one poster.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Alan Griggs papers, ms4599, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Notebooks.
Reporters and reporting -- United States.
Television broadcasting of news -- Southern States.

Related Collections in Other Repositories

The audiovisual materials related to this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.


Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
boxfolder
11-11Reporters notebooks, 1976-1977
 
boxfolder
21-11Reporters notebooks, 1978-1980
 
212Chappaquiddick poster
 
213Papers removed from from videotapes