The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting has been awarded to the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune for revealing the corruption scandalthat led to the bribery conviction of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Karin Winner (pictured), a USC Annenberg journalism alum, is editor of the Union-Tribune.
USC Annenberg faculty and student researchers will be a major part of the annual conference of the International Communication Association, which runs from June 19–23 in Dresden, Germany. Twenty-five Annenberg faculty members and 22 doctoral and master’s candidates will present papers, chair discussions and serve as respondents during the annual gathering of over 1,800 of the world’s foremost communication academics. The theme of the conference, "Networking Communication Research," has elicited paper submissions from USC Annenberg researchers in subjects as diverse as global telecommunications networks and video games.
Annenberg print journalism major Katherine Beck was named Student Photojournalist of the Year by the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles. The winner of the portfolio competition, Beck was honored at the PPAGLA annual awards dinner on March 13 in Studio City, CA, where she received a cash prize and a Nikon digital camera. Pictured: Bandit and friend Mark Shaffer at the 21st...
Paul Turpin has been selected to receive the 2006 Dissertation Award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric for his dissertation comparing the rhetoric of economists Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.
Rice's remarks commended the Center's efforts to "increase international understanding."