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

In the third and final episode of Neha Wadekar's Master Class series, she describes what it was like to travel to Jordan to report on the Syrian refugee crisis. Wadekar took time off during her nine-month MS Journalism course to pursue and report on the story.

Please watch the second episode of Neha Wadekar's Master Class series...

Neha Wadekar (MS Journalism '16) discusses how the first half of the nine-month graduate program affected her skill set. How her capstone project will take her to Jordan to cover the Syrian refugee crisis, and how the instruction she has received has helped guide her along the way.

Please watch the first episode of Neha Wadekar's Master Class series...

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III offers the USC Annenberg family a warm welcome back to school.

For four weeks this summer, 12 USC Annenberg journalism professors and adjuncts guided 60 students as they learned new software, innovative immersive tools and critically important writing, reporting and editing basics.

Both the School of Communication and School of Journalism will welcome new faculty this year. Kiran Dhillon will be lecturer in the School of Communication and associate director of debate and forensics for the USC Trojan Debate Squad. Ulrike Gretzel will be a Visiting Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Journalism.

Interviewed in May just before commencement, M.S. Journalism graduate Daniel Tran, reflects on his final project and identifies things he might have done differently and which professors helped him along in the process.

Wilson opened the event by telling the students that it was natural to be nervous, but added, “in technical terms, I would say ‘chill’—we’re all here to help you.”