Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection website. We have a commitment toward providing access to our collections. We are providing streaming content through various databases on our site and from the site itself. We hope you enjoy our site and give us input in the future as to how the site can be more useful to you. Some items in the menu may not yet be accessible, but will be active in the near future.

Who is Walter J. Brown?

A Georgia native who attended the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, Walter J. Brown was a journalist and broadcast pioneer, a complete biography of him is available at the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Walter J. Brown Media Archive & Peabody Awards Collection is:

To preserve and protect the materials that reflect the collective memory of broadcasting and the history of the state of Georgia and its people; to provide access to the collections through the creation and development of ongoing public programming and the maintenance of a viewing facility for researchers; so that we may serve the research, and study needs of the University of Georgia its faculty, students, and staff, as well as the campus community and the public at large. The UGA Media Archive's scope of service extends beyond the University of Georgia, providing reference assistance to researchers around the world, as well as participating in cooperative preservation projects with other moving image and sound archives.