Media Center Advisers, Instructors and Coaches

With television and radio studios, state-of-the-art control rooms, editing suites and social-stream monitoring technologies, USC Annenberg’s Media Center is a high-energy, multiplatform news hub that is open to all USC students. Students create work in a variety of formats and gain leadership experience in the Annenberg Media newsroom, with guidance from award-winning faculty who have industry experience in digital, audio, television and public relations.

Directors

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Director of Video

Leslie Berestein Rojas

Director of Audio

Advisers

Amara Aguilar

Dímelo and Community Reporting Partnerships

Laura Davis

Stylebot and Copy Desk

Alan Mittelstaedt

Politics Desk

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Special Projects

Miki Turner

Sports and Photo desks, Black.

Instructors

Mallory Carra

JOUR 206 Live

Rebecca M. Haggerty

JOUR 206 Live

Luke Harold

JOUR 206 Community

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JOUR 206 Live

Edward Lifson

JOUR 532
MS Grad

Melissa McCoy

JOUR 206 Community 

Alan Mittelstaedt

JOUR 532
MS Grad

Alicia Ramirez

JOUR 206 Community

Lauren Lee White

JOUR 206 Community

Coaches

Jameela Hammond
Jameela Hammond

Audio

Allan Lopez

Dímelo

Rob Parker

Sports

Roz Plater

Video

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Yiyi Zeng

Mandarin platforms