After 27 years in the TV news game, Mike Huckman was looking for a change. He followed the advice of longtime friends who worked in public relations, and switched paths to corporate communications, specifically the health sciences sector.
Huckman joined his first agency, MSL Global, in 2010. With the fresh territory came fresh challenges. Difficulties acclimating...
Zac Coughlin always had a sweet tooth. Whether it was cake-batter truffles, salted caramel pretzels, or rainbow-sprinkled cookie pizzas, from the time he was 8 years old, Coughlin was constantly baking up mouth-watering confections. Simply, he said, “because it made other people happy.”
“Growing up, I loved watching Cupcake Wars and all the baking shows… but I never saw anyone that...
Impact is a long-form documentary program that launched at USC Annenberg in 2001. The 20-year-old series has given undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to produce in-depth stories as part of the journalism curriculum. Dan Birman , professor of professional practice and...
How values-driven artificial intelligence can reshape the way we communicate.
Mike Ananny walked his dog this morning. He did so with no expectation of privacy.
“I know that I was subject to a wide variety of cameras, whether it’s Ring doorbells, cars driving along, or even city traffic cameras,” he said. “I didn’t choose to participate in...
Michael Parks, the esteemed former director of USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, has died at the age of 78. A Pulitzer Prize winner whose newspaper career spanned nearly 40 years, Parks devoted the last two decades of his life to training, mentoring and inspiring the next generation of journalists, and advancing the field of journalism...
This story was originally published on The Conversation and is republished here with permission.
People have recognized the power of storytelling for...
For Daniel Hailpern, sports broadcasting helped him get through a time when he was literally fighting for his life. Diagnosed with leukemia at age 14, Hailpern was being treated at Children’s Hospital Colorado in his native Denver when he noticed there was a TV and radio studio on the ground floor of the hospital. Founded by media personality Ryan Seacrest, Seacrest Studios offers kids an...
When Manuel Abud , the CEO of the Latin Recording Academy, first met the five USC Annenberg students who received academy fellowships, he asked them to name their favorite Latin singer. Over Zoom, some mentioned some popular current artists, including Bad Bunny and J Balvin, but senior...
