After learning from award-winning journalist, Joe Dennis, it is safe to say that Joe is the man. And he’s not modest enough to admit it.
“Pretty much, I am the journalism program there,” said Joe, chair and associate professor of mass communications at Piedmont University. “I love being a part of (a student’s) journey, and someone they can go to when they need help.”
When Joe isn’t teaching at Piedmont university, he spends his time teaching high school students at University of Georgia summer camps. After getting his master’s and his Ph.d from the University of Georgia, Joe has just entered his fourth consecutive year teaching journalism to aspiring young journalists. He loves his career, and has no regrets..
“I really think that everything that’s happened has happened for a reason,” he said. “I’m really happy with how things turned out.”
Joe’s co-teacher of the journalism class, said her former professor has a unique style of teaching. “I feel like he’s hands on,”said Keshondra Shipp, a former student of Joe’s. “I like that about Grady, that it’s like real hands on.”
Keshondra “Kee” Shipp believes that Joe is passionate about his teaching. From being a student in his graduate newsroom class back in Fall of 2021. Kee states that he’s taught her a lot. He’s a very technical person. He taught her a lot about the technical side of journalism, which is something that she will take with her to her job in Corpus Cristi, Texas.
“He really knows what he’s doing, but he’s not like braggy about it,” says Elsa Block, a student in his summer multimedia journalism academy at the University of Georgia. “He’s very humble, and he’s just a really nice person. And he’s very easy going, and he’s easy to talk to if you need help.”
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