USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center conducted a survey that measured which way the United States leans on the liberal-conservative scale and — based on answers to 42 telling questions — found the country leans a little to the "left."

USC Annenberg's public relations program, directed by Jerry Swerling, is one of five finalists for PRWeek’s Public Relations Education Program of the Year award

Journalism students Katie Kim, Richie Duchon and Chris Nelson will cover Barack Obama's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. for USC Annenberg's broadcast, radio and digital media, respectively

The survey, conducted by USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future and sponsored by Cisco, compared Americans to Germans, Swedes and Urban Chinese and found nearly a quarter of Americans watch video on mobile phones

The USC Trojan Debate Squad, directed by Gordon Stables, will participate in a Jan. 19 debate about health care and the economy at the Smithsonian Institute to coincide with President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration

USC Annenberg and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that applications are now being accepted for the 5th annual Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater. The institute, which will take place April 14-24, 2009, is an 11-day intensive workshop in theater and musical theater for writers, editors, broadcast and online producers from the 50 states and Puerto Rico