When Jose Antonio Vargas was 17-years-old, he made a list of everything he wanted to accomplish in his journalism career: become a political reporter, be published in the New Yorker, win a Pulitzer Prize. By the time he was 30, he had checked off every accomplishment on that list, but a more fundamental item remained still out of reach: legally residing in the United States.

Having...

This year marks the 100th awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes. To celebrate, the Los Angeles Times and USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism are hosting two days of performances and conversations reflecting on subjects as timely today as they were a century ago. Professor Roberto Suro is...

This month, Jordyn Holman (B.A. Print and Digital Journalism ‘16) gets to participate in a program she always had her eye on: the New York Times Student Journalism Institute at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in Manhattan.

She and fellow...

Court was in session on Monday April 11 when daytime TV host Judith Sheindlin —better known as Judge Judy—paid a visit to USC Annenberg to share her secrets for creating a lasting, multifaceted career.

School of Journalism director Willow Bay kicked things off for the crowd of...

Kim Moses, Principal and Executive Producer with Sander/Moses Productions, delivered the 2016 USC Annenberg Communications Graduation Ceremony speech on May 13, 2016.

Please view the photo albums of the Communications Commencement Ceremony below.

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Judy A. Smith is President of Smith & Company, a strategic and crisis communications firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. She has handled some of the most historic and well-known public-relations crises of our time, from the Iran Contra investigation and the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the hacking of Sony Corporation’s email.

As part of the University of Southern California's 133rd commencement ceremonies, USC Annenberg celebrated the conferral of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to 951 students on May 13.

Twin throngs of graduates gathered under high, white tents during concurrent ceremonies, as the School of Communication and the School of Journalism delivered congratulatory, inspirational...

At 11:58 a.m. on the morning of April 18, staff at the Los Angeles Times received an email directing them to the newsroom. This was no ordinary Monday morning meeting. It was Pulitzer Prize day, and within moments, clapping and cheers erupted as the news was announced via a livestream of the awards: the paper had won a Pulitzer.

“It was a totally euphoric moment,” said...