“Quoted” gathers a selection of the week’s news stories featuring and written by USC Annenberg’s leadership, faculty, staff and others.

Professor Jonathan Taplin , who also acts as director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab , recently discussed his life, work and new book "Sleeping Through a Revolution: The Secret History of Internet Power," (set for release in spring 2017) with TeleRead.

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USC Annenberg’s Media, Economics & Entrepreneurship (M{2e}) program welcomes a notable figure each year as its Innovator-in-Residence. Past innovators have come from companies like Facebook, Viacom and Microsoft. This year, however, the innovator was not a person, but a media company.

In February, USC Annenberg welcomed YouTube executives...

USC Annenberg alumna Jenna Pittaway in Israel. Photo Courtesy of Ashley Velez Five years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas told the public he was an undocumented immigrant.

“He was at the height of his career, but he felt like he had to speak out about his status,” according to USC Annenberg alumna...

Weintraub was announced as the 2016 Provost’s Mentoring Award recipient in January, having been nominated by Dean Ernest J. Wilson III, and is the only clinical faculty member to have received the honor.

Nearly a year in the making, the results of the first Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity (CARD) in entertainment were released on Monday, Feb. 22, prompting...

Inside the classrooms at USC Annenberg, students are the ones typically tasked with answering the hard hitting questions. "Five Minutes with..." turns the table on faculty members to ask them the questions we've been itching to know the answers to.

Formerly a mobile news editor at Buzzfeed, professor Laura E. Davis has joined USC Annenberg as a full-time faculty member this month....