The dialogue, hosted by the Center on Public Diplomacy, stresses the importance of “soft power” in the mission of the U.S. military’s new Africa Command

The first of a series of conferences on public diplomacy, the conference will be held Feb. 7-8 at USC's Intellectual Commons at Doheny Library.

Award-winning broadcast journalist Dan Rather broadcast his HDNet program, Dan Rather Reports, live from the USC Annenberg East Lobby as state-by-state returns came in on Feb. 5, primary election night. Students participated in “A Conversation with Dan Rather” on Feb. 4

The 10-day intensive arts journalism program for 25 theater writers and editors from across the United States has "made a big difference to the way theater is received and respected"

"If you don’t teach yourself to do anything else while you’re here, make yourself the best writer you can," said Rather (pictured), adding that students keeping idealism "will prove to be more difficult than you think as time goes on"

Janet Clayton (B.A. journalism, '77) is the new president of the Los Angeles Dodgers' official charity, whose purpose is to raise funds to support cancer research, and whose mission is to find a cure for cancer

Communication professor Stacy Smith presents groundbreaking research that shows females are less likely to appear in TV and movies, but when they do, they are shown in a hypersexualized way

Journalism professors Roberto Suro (pictured), Marc Cooper, Judy Muller and Richard Reeves, and Norman Lear Center director Martin Kaplan are all covering the 2008 election in different ways