USC Annenberg welcomes 524 new students and three journalism faculty members for the fall semester, including School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser (pictured)

Third-year communication doctoral student Matthew S. Weber has been awarded an $8,000 Web Science Research Grant by the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University

Rebecca Soni won the gold medal in a record-breaking performance in which she finished nearly two seconds ahead of her nearest competitor

Top journalists and political strategists will offer candid assessments of the campaigns and the press and explore the role of media in a democracy at public events during the national political conventions in Denver and Saint Paul

The Ford Foundation has awarded journalism professor and Knight Chair in Media and Religion holder Diane Winston a two-year $300,000 grant for building religion resources for journalists

School of Journalism director Geneva Overholser was a panelist for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' open community forum, "Los Angeles Without the Los Angeles Times?" on Aug. 14

USC Annenberg's School of Communication director Larry Gross (pictured) accepted the Roy F. Aarons Award for his contribution to education and research on issues affecting the GLBT communities, and journalism professor Joe Saltzman moderated a panel exploring the image of the war correspondent in movies and television Thursday at the AEJMC Convention in Chicago