The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism today announced journalism awards totaling $57,750 to support investigative and explanatory reporting projects.
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism announced today the recipients of the 2012 Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life.
USC Annenberg's Knight Digital Media Center will expand its reach into communities by helping locally focused foundations meet community information needs, with new support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
A new collaborative, multimedia storytelling project from USC Annenberg paints a unique picture of South Los Angeles by revealing 15 unique public spaces that embody the community’s push for social change.
“Discovering China through Please Vote for Me” is the newest film-driven curriculum guide released by the Norman Lear Center's Journeys in Film project in global education.
Journeys in Film, in partnership with acclaimed actor and Academy Award® nominee Liam Neeson, launches a new fundraising endeavor to educate American students about the world and its rich, diverse cultures.
The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab releases three new reports that aim to serve as teaching and learning guides for K-12 teachers and administrators who want to develop more participatory learning approaches in classrooms.
The Knight Program in Media and Religion supports innovative programs and projects at the intersection of religion, media and society. Ten journalists were awarded Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Life in August 2011, and over the past year they produced multimedia stories on topics that touch on the spiritual lives of Americans from New York’s five boroughs to Oakland, Calif.
Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean of USC Annenberg and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication, has been selected as a fellow-elect of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
Through a new collaboration with Adobe, a global leader in digital media tools, USC Annenberg will provide its students, faculty and staff with Adobe Creative Cloud at no cost during the 2013-14 academic year.
Wells Cisneros and her husband, Gilbert Cisneros, have pledged a $500,000 donation to the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and will have the assignment desk in the media center of Wallis Annenberg Hall, scheduled to be completed in Fall 2014, named in their honor.
Many immigrants feel isolated in America – suffering that can turn toxic over time. In the Living in the Shadows series, six news organizations from around the country have joined together with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to highlight how immigration status affects health
USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism recognizes reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for their “Deadly Delays” series with the school’s 25th Selden Ring Award for Investigative Journalism
The University of Southern California’s Community Health Involvement Project (USC CHIP) is providing free health screenings and information sessions for the entire family at its fifth annual health on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The fair is taking place at Hoover Street Elementary School at 726 Francis Ave., Los Angeles, 90005.
On Tuesday, April 8, three prominent figures in the ongoing debate over constitutional privacy rights in the face of growing government surveillance will speak at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The event is co-sponsored by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a nonprofit, nonpartisan whistleblower advocacy organization, as part of its American Whistleblower Tour, a series of events that brings whistleblowers to universities nationwide. The USC program, Patriot or Traitor? Whistleblowing and Journalism in the Age of Government Surveillance, will explore the critical balance between civil liberties and national security.
To provide a comprehensive look at prospects for the coexistence of religion and democracy post-Arab spring, a groundbreaking conference “Religion, Democracy and the Arab Awakening” will be held Friday, April 25 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Rosalie Murphy, USC Annenberg '14 has been awarded a Pulitzer Center International Fellowship for Reporting. The awards are given to students, studying at the Center's campus affiliates, for
reporting projects that focus on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or under-reported in the mainstream American media.
Results from the eighth biennial Communication and Public Relations Generally Accepted Practices (GAP VIII) Study were released today by the USC Annenberg Strategic Communication and Public Relations Center (SCPRC). The purpose of the GAP Study is to provide senior communicators with timely guidance as they manage their organizations, develop strategy, and prepare for the future
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships at USC Annenberg today announced journalism awards totaling almost $58,000 to support investigative and explanatory reporting projects.
Fusion today announced that it is partnering with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to offer recent graduates several working fellowships specializing in digital storytelling, investigative reporting and documentary production.
USC Annenberg's Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) welcomes U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel on Wednesday, October 15, at 12:00 p.m., for a discussion entitled “Why We Need to Harden Our Soft Power.”
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation has chosen four USC student ventures to participate in the first annual Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day in New York City
The official grand opening of Blackstone LaunchPad at USC marks a new opportunity for students at the University of Southern California to pursue entrepreneurship as a viable career path.
USC Annenberg’s Health Journalism Fellowships program launches its “Health Matters” webinar series this week, with a provocative online discussion with leading health care thinker Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D.
Miami Herald reporters Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch have won USC Annenberg’s 2015 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, for their examination of six years of child deaths in Florida.
Robert Hernandez, associate professor of professional practice at USC Annenberg, has been chosen by the national Society of Professional Journalists to receive its Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award.
The nation’s pre-eminent center for health journalism training and news collaborations today announced a name change: the Center for Health Journalism.
USC Annenberg Professor and award-winning documentarian Dan Birman has landed the rights to produce the bestselling seven-volume book series Hinges of History, by revered scholar and historical author Thomas Cahill.
The USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations (CPR), a think tank that connects the school and its students with the $14 billion global PR industry, has announced a new Board of Advisors.
Reporters from The Associated Press have won USC Annenberg’s 2016 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, for a series of stories that showed how seafood sold in U.S. grocery stores and restaurants had been produced by slaves.
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has announced that Robert V. Kozinets has been selected as the Jayne and Hans Hufschmid Chair in Strategic Public Relations and Business Communication.
The USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations, a think tank that connects the school and its students with the $14 billion PR industry, has expanded its Board of Advisors to include nine communications leaders from the agency and corporate world.
PEN Center USA, a human rights and literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, announced today two key honorees for the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival. The ceremony will take place on September 28, 2016, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Willow Bay, Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, will receive the Award of Honor, and Former Tehran Bureau Chief for the Washington Post Jason Rezaian will receive the Freedom to Write Award.
This week, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)—the two largest journalism organizations for minorities—will be hosting a joint conference that welcomes industry leaders and students alike for five days of development and networking events.
Paola Mardo is the 2016-2017 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Fellow and will study film criticism as part of USC Annenberg’s Masters in Arts Journalism program.
Angelique Perrin has had a long and successful career on the entertainment side of radio and TV. Characters she created became established voices on radio stations nationwide, on BET, TBS, Disney Junior and Nickelodeon. George Lucas cast her in a recurring role as a Jedi master on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
USC Annenberg’s CDF has released the seventh edition of the 2016 World Internet Project International Report, which compiles data on the behavior and views of Internet users and non-users worldwide.
Brian M. Rosenthal of the Houston Chronicle has won the 2017 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for his seven-part series revealing that Texas state educators systematically denied special education services to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren with developmental, intellectual and physical disabilities.
The former co-anchor of ABC News‘ Good Morning America/Sunday and senior editor of Huffington Post has served as director of the journalism school, where she launched its state-of-the-art Media Center
Fandango and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism are partnering to create a professional, hands-on fellowship for digital-native students.
A new series marking the first 100 days of the Trump administration, featuring work by USC Annenberg graduate journalism students, will launch Friday on The California Report Magazine, KQED’s statewide public radio program.