USC Annenberg publishes or edits an assortment of nationally and internationally prominent journals, including:

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 2008 issue
Geoffrey Cowan and Nicholas Cull (Editors)
University Professor Geoffrey Cowan and public diplomacy professor Nicholas Cull are the editors of the March 2008 issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The volume, Public Diplomacy in a Changing World, includes original articles by Dean Ernest J. Wilson III, who authored "Hard Power, Soft Power, Smart Power." Other contributors include Wallis Annenberg Chair holder Manuel Castells, doctoral students Amelia Arsenault and Drew Margolin, and public diplomacy senior fellow Nancy Snow.

International Journal of Communication (published by USC Annenberg)
Larry Gross and Manuel Castells (Editors)
First edition published January 2007
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.


The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Journal 
Joe Saltzman (Co-founding editor)
Fall 2009
The IJPC Journal is an online academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review. Its purpose is to further the mission of The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Project to investigate and analyze, through research and publication, the conflicting images of journalists in every aspect of popular culture, from film, television, radio, fiction, commercials, cartoons, comic books to music, art, humor and video games -- demonstrating their impact on the public's perception of journalists.

"We believe this has been a long-neglected field for research, one that has been untapped by journalism and mass communication scholars," co-founding Journal editor and USC Annenberg journalism professor Joe Saltzman said. "By analyzing the images of the journalist in popular culture over the centuries, the researcher can offer a new perspective on the history of journalism as well as the delicate relationship between the public and its news media. The public's lack of confidence in the news media today is partly based on real-life examples they have seen and heard and partly on characters burned into the public memory from movies, television and fiction."


Information Technologies and International Development
François Bar and Michael L. Best (Co-editors in Chief)
Ernest J. Wilson III (Founding Editor in Chief)
Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is an interdisciplinary open-access journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the "other four billion"— the share of the world population whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely considered in the design of new information technologies. ITID aims to create a networked community of leading thinkers and strategists to discuss the critical issues of ICT and development, an epistemic community that crosses disciplines (especially technologists and social scientists), national boundaries, and the North and South hemispheres.


Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Douglas Thomas (Editor)
Sage Publications, 2006
Believed to be the first critical journal in the field of video gaming, communication professor Douglas Thomas launched Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media to provide an outlet for the growing body of critical articles on gaming, which have been an awkward fit for other academic publications. “What this journal really tries to do is look at the relationship between games, game playing and game culture, and broader sociological questions. It’s the first journal to actually look at cultures of new media in the context of games,” Thomas said. The second issue of the quarterly journal, published in spring 2006, features a paper by noted video game researcher Edward Castronova of Indiana University examining the research value of massively multi-player online games such as the Quest for Camelot, while University of Wales, Newport, professor Barry Atkins examines "The Future - Orientation of Video Game Play."


Journal of Communication
Michael Cody (Editor in Chief, 2009-2011)
The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers. It concentrates on communication research, practice, policy, and theory, bringing to its readers the latest, broadest, and most important findings in the field of communication studies. It is a peer-reviewed journal that encourages international contributions. The Journal of Communication also features an extensive book review section that is published online at the ICA Web site.


Media, War & Conflict
Philip Seib (Co-editor)
Sage Publications, 2008
Media, War & Conflict maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It explores cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, and new media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare.

Media, War & Conflict is the first journal to be dedicated to this field. It publishes substantial research articles, shorter pieces, book reviews, letters and commentary, and includes an images section devoted to visual aspects of war and conflict. The journal bridges communications, political science, sociology, history, and other disciplines. It solicits submissions not just from academics but also professionals in journalism, the military and other areas related to this subject matter. The editors look for innovative, readable work that raises new issues as well as articles that examine new facets of traditional topics.