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...
It was September of 2020, the first time the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros of Major League Baseball played each other since it was revealed that the Astros stole signs from the Dodgers during the 2017 World Series. While most sports observers were focused on what was happening on the field, for Courtney M. Cox and...
As any graduate student will tell you, coursework and projects are instrumental to learning and growing in your chosen profession. In some cases, these assignments can even become part of the portfolio that lands you a coveted job offer.
That’s exactly what happened to Jackson Martinez, who is pursuing his ...
Most of the world saw the July 20 launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, with Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on board, through either TV or social media. USC Annenberg senior public relations major Ian Solano got to experience that moment from inside Blue Origin headquarters in Kent, Washington.
“It was a room filled with hundreds of engineers,” recalled Solano, who...
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...