USC Annenberg National Health Journalism Fellow Michael LaForgia and his team at the Tampa Bay Times have won another prestigious journalism award for their 2015 “Failure Factory” series: the “Excellence in Local Reporting” honor offered by the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists .
LaForgia, along with Cara...
From the endangered culture of Costa Rica’s “hidden people” to the thriving economy of online sex work, stories told by USC Annenberg student journalists are finding an audience – and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists.
The 2015 Mark of Excellence Awards have honored work by USC Annenberg students in 11...
On the heels of its launch of the Global Communications Report , the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations, a think tank that connects the school and its students with the $14 billion PR industry, has expanded its...
Week in and week out this past spring, students in clinical professor of communication Christopher Smith ’s COMM 400 class, "TV Strategy: from Broadcasting to YouTube," wrestled with a basic question: Does Twitter success a TV hit make?
Five groups of students from Smith’s class were assigned to...
A 1A Los Angeles Times story on May 18 about food truck safety was cooked up by two students in a USC Annenberg data journalism class.
Caitlin Plummer (B.A. Print and Digital Journalism '17) and Michael Radcliffe (Journalism M.S. '16), wrote a story about how 27 percent of L.A. County food...
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...