An Alumni & Friends pre-game picnic starts Nov. 3 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $40 for the catered buffet.

Journalists, lawyers and free speech advocates - including featured speakers Stuart Taylor of Newsweek and Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker - gathered at USC from Oct. 25-26 to discuss First Amendment topics such as government secrecy, cameras in courtrooms and secret police

Smith will research the impact of hypersexualized media characters on young girls' body dissatisfaction and weight concerns; Kun will explore American myths, Mexican dreams and the making of Tijuana

Author and journalist Jeffrey Toobin (pictured) delves inside the secret world of the Supreme Court; other topics on Oct. 26 include personal privacy vs. public access, citizen media and journalism shield laws

Journalists, lawyers and free speech advocates - including featured speakers Stuart Taylor of Newsweek and Jeffrey Toobin of CNN - gather at USC from Oct. 25-26 to discuss First Amendment topics such as government secrecy, cameras in courtrooms and secret police

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Kovach says centralized power negatively affects the flow of information

Laura Lane (B.A. broadcast journalism, '07) won the $2,500 prize for her article about Ryan Seacrest. "He didn't like some of the things I wrote about," Lane says. "But I was trained to write articles that are fair and balanced. And I did just that."

It’s Friday afternoon and Ryan Seacrest is sitting in a chair inside his dressing room while his make-up artist and hair stylist gets him camera-ready for the taping of E! News, which is set to start rolling in 20 minutes. As he is primed and trimmed, his mind begins race through his schedule. He has two tapings of E! News – the Friday show and the weekend show – today. When he’s done he’ll be...