Newsday reporters Sandra Peddie and Eden Laikin were presented with the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Journalism on April 17

Truthdig.com, a Web site led by Annenberg alumni and faculty that is dedicated to providing insightful and accurate reporting, earned highly competitive Webby Award nominations in the politics category — alongside media sites C-SPAN and the Huffington Post — and the Best Copy/Writing category, alongside Vanity Fair

Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey quoted USC Annenberg students and journalism professor Jonathan Kotler for an April 17 column about the enthusiasm of journalism students despite an evolving industry

VozMob (Voces Móviles/Mobile Voices), a collaboration between faculty and students at USC and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA), was one of 19 projects selected in a global competition to receive funding to explore digital media's ability to help people learn

Communication and cinema professor Doe Mayer was recognized at the Academic Honors Convocation as one of the two winners of the 2009 Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching — “the highest honor the University Faculty bestows on its members for outstanding teaching,” said Lawford Anderson, director of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching

Maria Shriver, in partnership with the Center for American Progress and USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, launches a project on the modern American woman

Professional television journalists from across the country and a group of USC Annenberg students and faculty gathered April 15 for the 5th Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony, administered by the Norman Lear Center, at USC’s Davidson Conference Center

Former president and CEO of E! Entertainment Television and EVP and general manager of MTV and VH1 Jarl Mohn and executive producer and host of KCRW’s Which Way L.A.? and To the Point Warren Olney headline the 2009 USC Annenberg Commencement ceremonies on May 15