Gabrielle Chenault got into journalism because she wanted to tell impactful stories about underrepresented communities. She got her first chance to do just that on a big stage a bit earlier than she expected.
After graduating from Hampton University in Virginia, the Queens, New York native spent this past summer as a Facebook Historically Black College or University (HBCU) News fellow...
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab) has welcomed its fourth cohort of Civic Media Fellows to the USC community. These 12 innovative and thought-provoking media practitioners hail from a vast variety of disciplines, interests, communities and experiences. They join a...
As host and lead writer of Telemundo’s only English-language news show, Gabriela Fresquez aims to cover Latinx communities with depth and nuance.
When Gabriela Fresquez watched the news after the 2016 presidential election, she was dismayed by the portrayal of Latinx people. It felt too negative, too narrow. It didn’t celebrate the community that makes her glow with pride.
So...
As Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off around the United States, a new report offers evidence that despite national attention, Hispanic/Latinos are still neglected in popular films.
The report examines the prevalence and portrayal of Hispanic/Latinos in film and is the second in a...
Growing up the daughter of Haitian immigrants in Miami, Jessica Moulite gained an early respect for journalism — and one journalist in particular.
“My grandma came to America in 1976 and she learned how to speak English by watching the evening news,” she recalled. “I'm one of four girls, and my parents didn't let us watch TV during the weekdays, except for watching the news with our...
Her quest to find purpose in the face of a debilitating nerve disorder drove Alysha Conner to pursue a master of arts in specialized journalism . A GRoW @ Annenberg Scholarship made that dream a reality.
Raised in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills, Conner discovered her love of writing an early age...
USC’s Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement ignited Flores’ love of storytelling — and brought him to the University Park Campus. Now he’s here as a USC student.
Coming to USC this year as a freshman was a homecoming of sorts for Abraham Flores. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, he was a frequent visitor at the University Park Campus; now he can walk around as a...
It was September of 2020, the first time the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros of Major League Baseball played each other since it was revealed that the Astros stole signs from the Dodgers during the 2017 World Series. While most sports observers were focused on what was happening on the field, for Courtney M. Cox and...