Jeffrey S. Klein, former senior executive with the Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror, has joined the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) as the 2010-2011 Executive in Residence. As both a lawyer and journalist, he has more than 24 years of experience operating newspaper, magazine, television and Internet businesses

Dr. Williams, the first dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication, dedicated his career to demonstrating the power of communication to serve the public

Groups composed of USC journalism, business, engineering and computer science students presented entrepreneurial ideas and plans for the future of journalism at a May 27 meeting at USC Annenberg.

Third-year doctoral student Melissa Brough and alumna Caitlan Carroll (M.A. Broadcast Journalism '07) both earned Fulbright Scholarships for the 2010-2011 school year and will travel to Colombia and Germany, respectively, for their research. Annenberg students or alumni have now been awarded a total of eight Fulbrights in the past four years.

Four leaders from the public policy, media and advertising, and public diplomacy sectors have joined the advisory board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School

Both the School of Journalism and School of Communication Satellite Commencement ceremonies will be webcast from a link on the Annenberg home page on Friday, May 14, 2010 beginning approximately at 10:30 a.m.

As part of the University of Southern California’s 127th Commencement Ceremonies, the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism celebrated the conferral of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to almost 900 students on May 14.

The job of inventing the future of news and how it is delivered will not fall solely to journalists. That is the thinking behind a new fellowship program, funded by a grant to USC Annenberg, that brings together students from the Marshall School of Business, the Viterbi School of Engineering and Annenberg.