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On May 15, 2026, USC Annenberg celebrated its commencement ceremony, honoring more than 1,200 graduates in communication, journalism and public relations. Thousands of family members, friends, faculty and staff gathered in Alumni Park to mark the occasion.

Continuing the tradition of honoring graduating students from disciplines across the university, USC’s annual Student Recognition Awards ceremony and Academic Honors Convocation were held this...

The documents came first: thousands of pages of court filings tied to January 6 Capitol attack prosecutions, dense with legal language and countless names. From his laptop in Los Angeles, Isaac Vargas began working through them, not line by line, but at scale.

Using tools like Google Pinpoint designed to process large volumes of text, he extracted names, roles and...

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Olympic gold medalist, best-selling author, philanthropist and investor Lindsey Vonn will deliver the keynote address at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s 2026 commencement ceremony on May 15.

In addition to the program’s top honor, USC Annenberg’s Sophie Schaked was named PRWeek’s 2026 Outstanding Student.

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