Dr. Lu Ye of Shanghai's Fudan University delivered the inaugural Wellen Sham Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 14, outlining the advancements and issues Chinese communication and media have faced in the last 30 years

USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future director Jeffrey Cole told the "Realising Our Broadband Future" forum in Australia that the Internet hurt newspapers but broadband Internet will make them flourish in the future

"Brace for Impact," a one-hour documentary, produced by journalism professor Dan Birman's Daniel H. Birman Productions Inc. and narrated by Harrison Ford, details the remarkable landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River by Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III

Dr. Lu Ye of Fudan University will deliver the first inaugural Wellen Sham Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 14, the first event in a series at USC Annenberg in partnership with Fudan that focuses on emerging topics in China communication and media

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III joined a panel of international authors and diplomatic experts at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on Dec. 7 to discuss China’s expanding economic role on the African continent

Executive in Residence David Westphal recaps the Dec. 4 meeting of top producers of Web-based community news and information that discussed best practices, building audiences, and serving the information needs of local communities

Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift (Simon & Schuster), a book by journalism professor and acclaimed author Richard Reeves, explores the stories of the men who left their new jobs, houses, wives and babies to fly dangerous missions in aging cargo planes in and out of a city blockaded by 400,000 of Joseph Stalin's Red Army

USC Annenberg received $10.6 million in research grants - including major awards in health communication - in fiscal year 2009, up from $5.7 million in 2008 and $4.4 million in 2007