Walter R. Fisher, professor emeritus of communication and former director of the School of Communication, died on July 26 at the age of 87. An esteemed teacher and mentor to generations of USC Annenberg students for more than 40 years, Fisher was a prolific scholar best known for his groundbreaking research on the “Narrative Paradigm.”
Fisher died in Carlsbad, California, after...
Murray Fromson, renowned international news reporter, beloved professor emeritus of journalism and esteemed former director of USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism , died on June 9 at the age of 88. An award-winning journalist and a dedicated mentor to hundreds of students, Fromson was a staunch advocate for freedom of the press and journalism...
Robert Hernandez uses cutting-edge tech to teach the next generation of immersive storytellers
The medium is the message, as the words of media theorist Marshall McLuhan have echoed for several generations of communications students, and no media in the last several years has had quite the potential to upend the message like 360-degree video and virtual reality.
Last month,...
Focusing on identity through media literacy
Dillan Barmache, a high-school senior, visited USC Annenberg along with his teacher, Mara Gellman, and fellow students from Canoga Park High School. There, they met with Alison Trope to share the media work they were doing in their honors English class.
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As the media industry copes with fake news, journalists still relish the chance to tell stories that matter.
Illustration by The Heads of State
One weekend last December, 28-year old Edgar Maddison Welch, a father of two, drove from his home in North Carolina to Washington, D.C. on a mission to protect kids.
In search of what he had heard were secret underground...
Hufschmid Chair pioneered the method of research, a subset of digital anthropology
It isn't often students get a front-row seat to an academic first. But this past spring, 11 USC Annenberg master’s students participated in the world premiere of “Netnography,” the course. Although netnography is widely used in classroom exercises, this was the first time anyone taught a course...
USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun has been named a recipient of the Berlin Prize, a semester-long fellowship in Berlin awarded annually to top-tier scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States.
Kun’s class of 22 recipients, announced by the American Academy in Berlin on May 10,...
Joe Saltzman , professor of journalism and communication at USC Annenberg, has received the 2017 Outstanding Service Award from the USC Association of Trojan Leagues.
As part of their mission to foster and promote the interest of the university, the association has honored one outstanding USC professor with the...