Loop-the-loops, spiral dives and barrel rolls. In the skies above California, Katherine Sui Fun Cheung began wowing crowds with her daredevil aviation stunts in the early 1930s. But her sheer determination to succeed in that male-dominated profession was even more awe-inspiring. At the time, only 1% of licensed American pilots were women, and Cheung was 1% of that 1% as the first...
Olsen Ebright of KTLA-TV had a bit of a surprise the first time he spoke with the Spring 2021 “Expanding the Reach of Local TV News” class from USC Annenberg.
The station’s assistant news director for digital knew that the class was going to be working with the TV station on developing strategies for audience engagement, and that social...
Through middle school and high school, communication major Jessie Faltinsky was struck by just how disconnected her school sex-education curriculum was from students’ real concerns and needs. Then, when she began volunteering in sex education program for middle-school girls as a peer educator through the campus...
Will Hennes describes himself as the typical “go, go, go, not really acknowledging stress” type of USC student. The communication major , who is graduating in 2022, admitted that it was the pandemic and subsequent lockdown that started him on a path of self-reflection — eventually leading him to the concept of...
Ever since she was a young girl growing up in Shandong province in northeast China, Grace Yuehan Wang knew that the city of Shenzhen, now China’s hub of high-tech commerce far to the south near Hong Kong, was unique. “I heard about this city when I was little, because my grandfather, who worked at an electronics manufacturing company, went on business trips there,” she said. “He always...
The acceleration of worldwide mobile internet access has made digital media indispensable to commerce, culture and human connection. Digital media platforms and content are driving growth across industries, with sectors such as streaming video, music, games and online publishing experiencing an unprecedented increase in...
From his bustling home kitchen, chef Alfonso Martinez is cooking someone else’s recipe for a change — specifically, a recipe for black beans, frijoles de olla , submitted by a reader of the hyperlocal website L.A. TACO .
Martinez, owner of Poncho’s Tlayudas, explains, as an audience watches him work over Facebook Live, that he began stewing the...
With registration for the Fall 2021 semester running from March 29–April 16 for continuing undergraduate students, we’ve assembled a selection of courses to explore across communication, journalism, public diplomacy and public relations.
COMM 315: Health Communication #20500R | Robin Stevens Mon./Wed...