My quiet quest to find home away from home.
There’s something familiar and embarrassing about going to Chinatown. Maybe it’s the embarrassment that’s familiar, or the familiarity that’s embarrassing.
Either way, walking up to the peeling and artificially red wooden gates of new Chinatown in Los Angeles reminds me of the times I asked my grandpa...
Kait Devir’s path to becoming a Division I lacrosse goalkeeper began with overcoming a major psychological hurdle as a fourth-grader in her native Ridgewood, New Jersey.
“I played attack when I was first starting out, but one day a goalie coach came to our program, and with our goalie out that day, I was thrown in to go work with the goalie coach,” she recalled. “But I was terrified of...
Michael Parks, the esteemed former director of USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, has died at the age of 78. A Pulitzer Prize winner whose newspaper career spanned nearly 40 years, Parks devoted the last two decades of his life to training, mentoring and inspiring the next generation of journalists, and advancing the field of journalism...
For Daniel Hailpern, sports broadcasting helped him get through a time when he was literally fighting for his life. Diagnosed with leukemia at age 14, Hailpern was being treated at Children’s Hospital Colorado in his native Denver when he noticed there was a TV and radio studio on the ground floor of the hospital. Founded by media personality Ryan Seacrest, Seacrest Studios offers kids an...
When Mariah Hill was 6 years old, her grandmother gave her a journal. “You know how grandmas are: They’re just buying you random stuff,” the Seattle native said with a chuckle. “I’m 23 now, and I’ve been keeping up with my journal the whole time.”
That journal was Hill’s first step as a storyteller, one that continued through her undergraduate studies as a radio, television and film...
USC Annenberg students, alumni and faculty took home plenty of hardware from the Los Angeles Press Club’s 63 rd Annual Southern California Journalism awards on the evening of Oct. 16. From the many current student and recent graduate winners to alumnus Marc Brown of KABC-TV being honored with the Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime...
Growing up the multicultural child of immigrants — her mother is from Mexico, her father from Jamaica — Chelsea Hylton identifies as both Black and Latina. While she celebrates her multifaceted identity, she finds that others struggle with it.
“Los Angeles is a very diverse city, but I went to predominantly white schools here and faced a fair share of discrimination and...
Robert Berger, a longtime journalism faculty member at USC Annenberg and former op-ed page editor for the Los Angeles Times, has died at the age of 82.
Berger died on Sept. 29 at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with head and neck cancer.
Berger first joined USC Annenberg in 2001 and served the school in a number of roles, including teaching newswriting, nonfiction...