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...
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.
