The Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame recognizes newspaper editors and publishers of the U.S. state of Georgia for their significant achievements or contributions. A permanent exhibit of the honorees is maintained at the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in Athens, Georgia. The Hall of Fame was founded in 1931 and the first inductee was the school's namesake Henry W. Grady, honored with a bust created by artist Steffen Thomas. Additional honorees have been added periodically at the annual convention of the Georgia Press Association, which solicits nominations for the honor. Nominees must "have rendered outstanding services in the field of newspaper journalism" and can only be nominated three years after they have died.

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.