Rodmy “Johnny” Dorcil has been named the 2020–21 recipient of the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Fellowship in Entertainment Journalism & Criticism. Dorcil, who started taking online classes through USC Annenberg this summer, is working toward his master’s degree in...
Life changes in a blink — in the flash of a thought, or within the sweep of a gesture. Nate Howard , executive director of Movement BE , a San Diego-based nonprofit and online platform serving vulnerable youth, knows this truth all too well.
In 2013, Howard was a senior studying...
The Center for Health Journalism at USC Annenberg has welcomed 23 journalists from around the nation to its annual National Fellowship this week for five days of intensive training that delves into coverage of health disparities and...
When the nationwide shutdowns put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in sport cancellations throughout the country, Madison McDaniel learned she wouldn’t be playing her final year of lacrosse for James Madison University (JMU) in Virginia. “Because of this, I was able to obtain an extra year of eligibility,” she said. “I definitely saw this as an opportunity to open my options...
Since she was 11, Rafiat Animashaun spent every other summer with her family visiting relatives in London and Nigeria. “Those experiences, hearing stories from my grandfather and mom, and understanding the history of my culture and what it means to be Yoruba and Nigerian, led me to realize, ‘Wait, there’s more to the world than the U.S. and being American,’” she said. “It helped me be more...
USC Annenberg Dean Willow Bay has appointed Hector Amaya , one of the country’s top scholars of transnational media, as director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication, effective July 1.
Amaya’s prolific and influential research examines the conceptual...
Simi Situ tried her hand at a lot of things growing up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She participated in Girl Scouts from the age of 6, performed musical theater and was the first-chair violist in the Downingtown STEM Academy High School orchestra. The international baccalaureate public high school is located about an hour west of Philadelphia, and Situ was one of three Black students in...
Working on Dunwoody High School’s yearbook staff is what first sparked Justin Heo’s interest in journalism. Later, Heo, who lives outside of Atlanta with his parents and younger sister, began an internship during his junior year at VOX Atlanta , an online space for teen publishing and self-expression. “I got to work as if I were a professional journalist and...