USC Annenberg’s Network Culture Project awarded more than $1 million Linden dollars – the currency used in the virtual world Second Life and approximately $4,000 in U.S. dollars – to the three winners of the “Second Life and the Public Good Community Challenge”

Communication professor Josh Kun is the recent recipient of a $10,000 Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant for his proposal to document African American and Jewish relations in 20th century American life. “I believe that the project speaks directly to innovations in the study of Jewish life in the context of multi-racial and multi-ethnic America.”

Host Alexis Glick said director of the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future Jeffrey Cole’s July 1 appearance on her show was “a 10” after he talked about the future of media, including the newspaper industry’s greatest opportunity to flourish

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III announced eight project recipients of his “3-I’s Fund,” designed to advance research related to the new “innovation, internationalization and impact” initiative at the USC Annenberg School

Professor and director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program Nicholas Cull has published a new book about the history of the U.S. government's public diplomacy efforts titled The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: America Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989 (Cambridge University Press)

ATVN, USC's student-run television news multimedia operation, picks up two first-place and one second-place award at the LA Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards ceremony

USC Annenberg alumnus Kris Van Cleave (B.A. Broadcast Journalism '02) recently won a Washington, D.C. area Emmy Award and three SPJ "Dateline Awards”

Pop and Politics, a non-profit news source and new media training center based at USC Annenberg and active online as a blogger’s Web site, is one of only 150 official blogs credentialed to cover the upcoming Democratic National Convention