USC alumna Andrea Gardner (M.A. print journalism, '04) explores the ways advertising targets women in a new book titled 30 Second Seduction: Advertisers' Changing Tactics and the Women Who Fall for Them

E.J. Dionne, Jr., author and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, says at a USC Annenberg event on March 5 that evangelical Christians of the "religious right" are broadening their agenda, which could help Democrats in the 2008 presidential election

Director of PR studies Jerry Swerling says that in an era of citizen journalism, a company's employees will be the biggest advocates in who is supported by the company

University professor Geoffrey Cowan and public diplomacy professor Nicholas Cull are the editors of the March 2008 volume of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which includes articles from numerous USC Annenberg faculty and grad students

USC Annenberg announces $35,000 award to reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull for coverage of conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

USC Annenberg's Center on Public Diplomacy and the Foreign Policy Association team to collect and analyze statements by U.S. Presidential candidates on world opinion, and world opinion on U.S. elections

Research by communication professor Stacy Smith shows characters in “Best Picture” films are 73 percent male and 83 percent white

Communication professor Josh Kun says in a Feb. 17 book review that the U.S.-Mexico border "is a machine and a metaphor, a tool and a scapegoat, an entire cosmology ..."