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...

The Los Angeles Times has partnered with USC to mark the 25th anniversary of the Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas with an online series of 25 free events, which begin on Sunday, Oct. 18. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the reimagined festival will...

This past summer Joelle Ferguson led a team of five of her fellow USC Annenberg students on a public relations campaign for Active Minds , a Washington, D.C. based organization supporting mental health awareness. Lawon Exum and his cohort of students worked with Project Angel Food in downtown Los Angeles,...

Isabella Ortiz says that she knew that the “Communication and Technology” course she took in the Spring from Mike Ananny , associate professor of communication and journalism, was a perfect fit for her studies.

Isabella Ortiz. As a...

It is crazy to think that we are less than two short weeks away from the start of the highly anticipated semester. If you are feeling anything like I am, what is about to become our reality is both exciting and a little terrifying.

Over the past two months, I have delved into a few of the many important tips and tricks that I wish I knew as an incoming freshman.

We talked about...

To the Annenberg Class of 2024,

First and foremost, I hope that those of you who live in the greater Los Angeles area are healthy and safe considering the recent spike in COVID-19 cases. Since I wrote to you last, USC has shifted gears, to say the least, going from a hybrid learning plan to a predominantly remote Fall semester. So, before I get into any of today’s letter — if you feel...

After her morning shift at the Chick-fil-A near Marina Del Rey, Calif., Kymia Freeman often takes the number 3 bus down Lincoln Boulevard to Venice Boulevard before the 12-minute walk to the apartment she shares with her mother in the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice. This summer, she put that travel time to good use, logging into Zoom from her phone to participate in the...