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 ..."

Communication professor Douglas Thomas' co-authored article, "The Gamer Disposition," says online gamers make excellent employees because of five distinct positive traits

"The biggest loser, however, may be Hollywood itself," adjunct communication professor Jonathan Taplin writes in a Feb. 10 New York Post article

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"