Optimizing Inclusion: A Learning Experience for Media Leaders is a series focused on creating and supporting a truly inclusive environment in USC Annenberg’s Media Center , which serves as a classroom, student-led newsroom and incubator for new ways of connecting with audiences.
This leadership learning series will guide... Read more
When then-USC senior Natalie Fung went on a trip with her friends to Las Vegas in Fall of 2013 to commemorate their last year of college, she had the next few months of her life all planned out. Slated to graduate early with a public relations degree, she had lined up a paid PR internship at Nickelodeon....
Zac Coughlin always had a sweet tooth. Whether it was cake-batter truffles, salted caramel pretzels, or rainbow-sprinkled cookie pizzas, from the time he was 8 years old, Coughlin was constantly baking up mouth-watering confections. Simply, he said, “because it made other people happy.”
“Growing up, I loved watching Cupcake Wars and all the baking shows… but I never saw anyone that...
Tasked with recording threats to mental and physical health in her South Los Angeles neighborhood, Samantha Reyes took note of small details — and the big picture.
Walking down Atlantic Avenue as part of a research project for USC Annenberg’s Health and Equity Media Collaborative , Reyes spotted a full syringe...
The Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has been an enormous hit. For one group of USC Annenberg students, at least some of its appeal came down to tiny details specific to the Asian American experience.
Melinda Wang, a math and economics major in May Lee’s “Asian American History and Journalism” course,...
Gabrielle Chenault got into journalism because she wanted to tell impactful stories about underrepresented communities. She got her first chance to do just that on a big stage a bit earlier than she expected.
After graduating from Hampton University in Virginia, the Queens, New York native spent this past summer as a Facebook Historically Black College or University (HBCU) News fellow...
As Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off around the United States, a new report offers evidence that despite national attention, Hispanic/Latinos are still neglected in popular films.
The report examines the prevalence and portrayal of Hispanic/Latinos in film and is the second in a...
USC’s Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement ignited Flores’ love of storytelling — and brought him to the University Park Campus. Now he’s here as a USC student.
Coming to USC this year as a freshman was a homecoming of sorts for Abraham Flores. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, he was a frequent visitor at the University Park Campus; now he can walk around as a...