Grant Blankenship
Grant came to public media after a career spent in newspaper photojournalism. As an all platform journalist he seeks to wed the values of public radio storytelling and the best of photojournalism online.
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One out of every 100 people in Hancock County, Georgia, has been killed by COVID-19.
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The Department of Justice is investigating whether chronic understaffing at Georgia state prisons has led to increased violence and death among those incarcerated — as well as staff.
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Historians and activists hoping for access to grand jury testimony related to Walton County’s unsolved Moore's Ford lynching did not get the progress they…
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The murder trial of three former Washington County sheriff’s deputies in the death of Eurie Martin ended Tuesday in a mistrial after three days of deliberation.
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On Monday, the state rested its felony murder case against three former Washington County Sheriff’s deputies in connection to the 2017 stun-gun death of Eurie Martin.
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There’s plenty of data about how vaccines for COVID-19 save lives. But for many, science is not the first place they turn to when making decisions about…
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Four years ago the Macon Symphony Orchestra took the stage for the last time. This week they returned to the city’s Grand Opera House, thanks to a new collaboration between the young musicians of the Mercer University McDuffie Center for Strings and the seasoned professionals of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
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How to repurpose empty or nearly empty shopping malls is a question being asked in many communities. In Macon, the answer is "amphitheater."
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COVID-19 cases keep climbing in Bibb County, including in children of all ages, and the vaccination rate is stuck at only one in three. With a holiday weekend approaching, the school district decided to act. The Bibb County School District is switching entirely to online, asynchronous instruction from the Tuesday after Labor Day through September 17.
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Only a few weeks into the school year, the Delta variant of the coronavirus is already upending life for some Georgia students. Some districts, especially…