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

Peter Segal (B.A. Broadcast Journalism ’84), director of the film version of Get Smart, America’s top-grossing movie on its opening weekend, recently sat for an interview for MovieMaker magazine and said he had been pulled in two professional directions while a journalism student at USC Annenberg

Recent USC alumna Esmeralda Bermudez (B.A. Print Journalism '03) will join the Los Angeles Times' California Desk later this month after a successful stint with the Oregonian

Communication professor Dmitri Williams visited virtual world "Azeroth" to lead an academic conference on the relationship between role-playing games and the real world

Journalism professor Marc Cooper and alumnus Frank Buckley (B.A. Broadcast Journalism '87) were both honored June 21 at the 50th annual Los Angeles Press Club awards

USC Annenberg executive in residence and McClatchy Washington editor David Westphal leads a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. featuring top Washington correspondents and bureau chiefs discussing the impact of new media on traditional Washington reporting on June 19