Melanie Sill, Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and journalist, will join USC Annenberg this June as Executive in Residence. Since 2007, Sill has served as Editor and Senior Vice President of the Sacramento Bee
In a review of the 100 top-grossing films of 2008, communication professor Stacy Smith (pictured) and researcher Marc Choueti found that Hollywood’s portrayal of females, especially teenage females, continues to come up short.
Five students in the Master's Program in Public Diplomacy returned to USC Annenberg recently from a two-week trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian cities. While abroad, the students conducted research in their respective areas of interest
The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announced this week that applications are now being accepted for Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life.
How will creative products succeed in a changing marketplace? Anita Elberse examined the effects that digital media has had on the entertainment industry's distribution channels in order to answer the question: “Is the blockbuster strategy still effective in the digital era?”
Steve Rubel, director of insights for Edelman Digital, said at the 21st annual Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium that public relations professionals must understand the media "cloverleaf" comprised of traditional, "tradigital," owned and social media
"Annenberg works in conjunction with such USC divisions as business, engineering and public diplomacy," an April 15 article states. "Labeling USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism as a simply 'journalism' school, in the traditional sense, diminishes what (Dean Ernest J. Wilson III) and his colleagues are trying to accomplish."
Trojan Debate Squad director and clinical assistant professor of communication Gordon Stables recently received both the Cross Examination Debate Association Brownlee Award and the National Debate Tournament George Ziegelmueller Award. Stables became the first person to win both awards in the same year and just the third person to win both awards in a career.