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
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."