USC Annenberg and faculty such as Dean Ernest J. Wilson III and Henry Jenkins held a two-part conference to examine the benefits, challenges and future of social media

USC Annenberg students, faculty and staff mourn the death of philanthropist Doug Ring, executive director of the School's Selden Ring Award

Former U.N. Deputy Special Representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith criticized the U.S. government’s handling of the war in Afghanistan and said because of the country’s recent presidential election, he does not recommend sending more troops. He spoke at an event co-hosted by USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy

USC Annenberg’s first Innovator in Residence, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, led a Nov. 3 conversation focused on innovation, saying universities could help their own causes by building design studios and prototypes to attract interest and support

Gaining access and providing resources to cover the war in Afghanistan is challenging, but the press must play the role of watchdog and advisor to the U.S. government, agree representatives of both press, armed services, scholars and government officials at USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy's Global Communication Leadership Forum, "Obama's Afghanistan: The Media and the War."

USC Annenberg is sponsoring The Democracy Video Challenge, a global call to action celebrating democracy that launched its second annual competition

Communication professor Dmitri Williams is uncovering what makes computer games so engrossing

Neon Tommy, the student-run online news source based at USC Annenberg, released a Nov. 5 investigative article about swine flu deaths in Los Angeles County that unearthed a host of information about the illness and its victims. "In several cases, the families we spoke with said they did not know their relatives had died of swine flu until we told them," the article stated. "In these cases, county officials said the diagnoses had been made after doctors filled out the death certificates, and that it is not the county's responsibility to notify family members."