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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The three soldiers killed in the drone strike in Jordan were all from Georgia. Communities there are mourning their deaths.
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It took 20 years to get a piece of land in Georgia ready to host endangered woodpeckers. U.S. Fish and Wildlife recently approved moving some of the birds to the site.
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People in Plains, Ga., are remembering former first lady Rosalynn Carter. She died on Sunday and leaves behind a long legacy of advocacy of mental health and caring about others.
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Idalia was still a hurricane when it hit south Georgia where people will spend the Labor Day weekend cleaning up downed trees and power lines.
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Georgia is changing the way students are taught to read. This year a new law requires schools to adopt what's known as Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. -
In Plains, Ga., the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park held a previously scheduled President's Day event. People who came to Carter's hometown honored him now that he's entered hospice care.
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New research documents what many have long believed: that heat can lead to extreme violence in prisons. Some now want cooling zones or air conditioning installed to help staff and those incarcerated.
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Despite Georgia's vaccination rates being among the lowest in the U.S., the state is closing its mass vaccination sites. Efforts are shifting to targeted outreach.
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A federal appeals court is set to weigh in on four African-American killings in Georgia in 1946. The FBI investigated and dozens of people testified. Now a historian wants access the sealed records.
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The South is the nation's leader in setting small wildfires on purpose, to prevent massive ones like those out West. One big reason is that so much land in the South is privately owned, not public.
