In a just-released national survey leading up to the Republican National Convention, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden lead the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan by a slim margin of 48-46 among likely voters, with just 3 percent of voters undecided.

These results from the USC Annenberg-Los Angeles Times Poll on Politics and the Press — which surveyed 1,...

Questions of how to cover diversity were at the heart of a Diversity in the Digital Age talk at UNITY.

Top journalists and political strategists will offer straightforward assessments of the campaigns and the press, while exploring the role of media has in shaping the national political discourse, at a series of public events held during the national political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte.

Politics & the Media: Bridging the Political Divide in the 2012 Election is hosted by...

*This is the fourth and final in a series of dispatches from Cape Town, South Africa, where five USC Annenberg students worked as interns for eight weeks. Journalism professor Erna Smith serves as a faculty adviser for the team, which worked for news publications and a diplomatic organization.*

PAARL, South Africa – From June 14-17, Tallie Johnson, Tricia Tongco, Angela Blakely,...