A leadership shift is scheduled to occur this summer, as Larry Gross, longtime director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication will pass the baton to his successor, colleague Sarah Banet-Weiser. Gross joined USC Annenberg’s School of Communication as director in 2003, having spent the previous 35 years teaching communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He will continue serving as...
By Charisse L’Pree Corsbie-Massay *
Teaching theory in media education is important, but teaching diversity in media is complicated. Despite almost-daily public criticism of content that draws on, and perpetuates, stereotypes and social discrimination, students still ask, “Why do we have to learn this?” Instructors may believe...
It’s been quite a year for the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. From the Sochi Olympics to lessons in Google Glass, from new leadership and a new Master’s Degree program to the construction of...
Rosalie Murphy, USC Annenberg '14 has been awarded a Pulitzer Center International Fellowship for Reporting. The awards are given to students, studying at the Center's campus affiliates, for reporting projects that focus on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or under-reported in the mainstream American media.
"The fellowship is...
Immediacy meant two different things in a newsroom that had two processes of newswork ongoing at the same time. There was both the old world of immediacy, where breaking news meant tomorrow, and the new world of immediacy in online journalism, where immediacy meant “fresh” constant updates and where the homepage would not look the same in any way after six hours. The print news cycle...
Honors accumulate for Truthdig, a news website with USC Annenberg connections.
Below: Complete texts of brief speeches from Truthdig’s Webby Award wins.
“You can handle the truth.”
ZUADE KAUFMAN (M.A. PRINT JOURNALISM ’05), PUBLISHER BEST POLITICAL BLOG, PEOPLE’S VOICE, 2014
“This one’s for Bradley Manning.”
PETER Z. SCHEER (B.A. COMMUNICATION ’04),...
In 1975 in the developed world, the average person spent 16 hours a week in front of a screen. Last year that amount increased to 47 hours.
In the next three to four years we expect to see it increase to 56 hours. Even if you ignore the projection, at 47 hours we are now in front of a screen more than one-quarter of all time. And if you factor in sleep, our time in front of the screen...
Annenberg students brought the ambitions and activism of 1930s and '40s Mexican American student media into the digital age in the "Echoes of The Mexican Voice" class taught by Professors Félix...