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...
“I try to learn something new every day,” said alumna Hannah Hunter. “I like to think of things in the big picture — as big a picture as possible.”
Now a public relations associate with KARV Communications, a small PR firm in New York City, Hunter has been broadening her horizons from an early age. The Michigan native grew up outside Flint, and fondly recalls the trips she took in her...
David Craig , clinical professor of communication and co-director of the global communication master’s program , maps the rise of creator...
This story was originally published on The Conversation and is republished here with permission.
As she prepared for her Zoom call with two of the editorial leaders of The Day newspaper in New London, Connecticut last Spring, Taylor Mills couldn’t help but be nervous. After all, she and her partner were about to point out flaws in the paper’s website and social media.
“I was scared we would seem insensitive — the idea that students who are going to a university across the country...
If many political observers were surprised by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Nov. 2 gubernatorial elections in Virginia, Jon Ward wasn’t one of them.
The veteran political journalist, now chief national correspondent for Yahoo! News, recalled attending a rally for Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe in Richmond, where the lead speaker was none other than...
In China, if you are female, educated and unmarried by the age of 27, people might use a particular term — “Sheng-nu” — to describe your social status. It translates simply as “leftover women.”
The label was deliberately invented to curb the rising number of single women in a traditional society which sometimes views not marrying as a moral transgression. Some even consider it a...
