Prof. Melissa Jackson

Melissa Jackson is a multiple Emmy award-winning storyteller. She spent more than 25 years in the broadcast industry producing, writing, and supervising newscasts, specials, and documentaries in the Southeast for top-rated media companies such as WSB-TV in Atlanta.  She has interviewed thousands of politicians, newsmakers, and celebrities during her broadcasting career. Jackson worked full-time for media institutions and freelanced nationally and internationally as owner of her own production company. Additionally, she cooordinated media crews across the country as a media relations specialist working with A-list movie productions and television series. She taught as an adjunct lecturer at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications prior to joining Piedmont University in 2018.  She is an Associate Professor of Mass Communications and recently led efforts to launch a new film production major at Piedmont.   Jackson is the Co-Chair of the student scriptwriting competition for the Broadcast Education Association and a judge for the Silver Telly Council.