With the digital media revolution well underway, news organizations have invested a couple decades’ worth of innovation into their online presence. Longtime observers and news junkies have watched as website design advanced in leaps and bounds.
In the USC Annenberg Agenda Winter 2014 , we hear what it's like for graduate students who attend USC Annenberg to alums who are well-learned in innovation and digital media. There...
In the USC Annenberg Agenda Summer 2014 , the school heralded the technologically transformative, 88,000-squarefoot Wallis Annenberg Hall with "drop-in" collaboration areas, multi-...
When I think about USC, I think about those who impressed me and motivated and inspired me. Names like Kenneth Owler Smith come to mind, and Claire Spiegel, who was a noted investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She taught an investigative journalism class and taught me how to really think in journalistic terms...
In 1874, the English polymath Sir Francis Galton coined the term “nature v. nurture” in his quest to understand personal identity formation. Since then, scholars have vigorously debated the impact of nature v. nurture by asking the question — are we the product of our genes or are we the product of our environment? But the...
India 2014 was my fifth trip with Prof. Diane Winston for her “International Reporting on Religion” class — once as a grad student to Israel and the West Bank and four other times (Israel, Ireland and India twice) as an assistant. On my first trip to India in 2012, I stepped into the serenity of the Taj Mahal. The crowds seemed to fade away as the sun’s reflection off the white marble awakened...
