As one of the recipients of the 2022 Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellowship, Jamal Jordan is continuing to push himself to discover the different types of stories he wants to tell. “Being able to divorce yourself from thinking in a box is always the most valuable tool you have,” he said. Jordan is a self-described multimedia documentarian, who is always using whatever tools he has...
Sophie Flay listens as her father, celebrity chef Bobby Flay, reveals the trick to making a good burger, explaining to their podcast audience that it’s his “signature move.” The secret, he says, is to “Press your thumb into the center of the uncooked hamburger meat, making a small indent. This ensures it won’t ‘puff up,’ necessitating your ‘smashing’ it with a spatula, thus releasing juices to...
It was natural for Kiley McKay to sign up for the unique opportunity to work for the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission (LASEC) in their newly created social media command center. With a...
Coming into his senior year on the USC football team, linebacker Devon Kennard was ready to set himself up for a career in the National Football League. Then, while lifting weights, he tore a pectoral muscle, a season-ending injury.
“It was devastating,” he recalled. “A...
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At USC Annenberg , we are teaching, training and inspiring students to fill a talent pipeline of communication and media professionals — a job category that is projected to...
From the time he was 12 years old, Donald Suxho knew he was not only going to play volleyball, but he was going to be one of the greatest players in the world — a big dream for a young man growing up in communist Albania in the 1980s and ’90s. Suxho recalls standing in line for bread and cheese in his poverty-stricken hometown of Korçë as a child. “If you didn’t get your food by 7 a.m., you...
From performance to business and scholarship, the love of music shapes lives and livelihoods.
When Jeremy Hecht was 17, he wrote a song hoping to save another teen’s life. Hecht had already been dabbling in posting his own music videos on YouTube and built a decent following. So, when a classmate shared a video link of a youth who was planning to take his own life, Hecht knew he had...
