So much for liberal Hollywood. A research brief released today shows that women and people of color rarely get a seat in the director’s chair.

Foundation’s gift offers new support for School of Journalism, longtime home of the Selden Ring Award

On November 29, 2016, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC National Association of Black Journalists hosted author, broadcaster, publisher, advocate and philanthropist Tavis Smiley for the Journalism Director's Forum.

This week in "Quoted": Dean Ernest J. Wilson III on why "soft skills" are important to employers; Mary Murphy on the legacy of Mary Tyler Moore for women in journalism; Henry Jenkins on why "Deadpool" deserves Oscar nominations, and more.

Two USC Annenberg students, Cole Sullivan (BA Broadcast and Digital Journalism ‘18) and Brad Streicher (BA Broadcast and Digital Journalism ‘17), were among the top 10 finalists in the 57th annual Hearst Journalism Awards' Television One Features Competition announced last week. Each student submitted two stories for the competition.

A group of seven USC Annenberg student journalists traveled to Washington D.C. to cover the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017 and the Women's March on Washington the following day.

More than 40 students and faculty braved time-zone differences and early morning rain to gather in Wallis Annenberg Hall for an informal viewing of Donald J. Trump's swearing-in as the 45th President of the United States. Leading up to the oaths, Bob Shrum, director of the USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, Geoffrey Cowan, director of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), Justin Wallin, COO of Probolsky Research, and audience members participated in a wide-ranging discussion forecasting Trump’s speech and the possibility of protest. Across the country, USC Annenberg professor Robert Hernandez and a group of Annenberg student journalists were in Washington creating multi-platform coverage of the Inauguration using text, social media and virtual reality.

This week in "Quoted": David Craig on Jerry Seinfeld's new comedy deal with Netflix; Karen North on the role of social media in bringing together massive crowds for the Women's March on Washington; Larry Gross on the significance of High Time Magazine's move from New York to Los Angeles, and more.