The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced on April 24 the launch of the Knight New Media Center , to be based at USC Annenberg School and the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Eric Newton , director of journalism initiatives for the Knight Foundation, and USC Annenberg Dean Geoffrey Cowan (pictured) made the announcement at the annual convention of the American Society...
NBC executives have selected graduate students Shawna Thomas (pictured, top) and Leo Juarez (pictured, bottom) for the NBC News Associates Program . Only five students are selected each year from a pool of hundreds of students from the best journalism schools in the country. According to...
Amy Tenowich , a first year broadcast journalism graduate student, is the 2006 winner of the Art Buchwald Scholarship . The prize, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and USC Annenberg journalism school alumnus, is awarded annually on April 1 to a student selected for humor writing. According to Buchwald, who provides financial...
Communication professor Manuel Castells has been awarded the Order of Santiago , the highest cultural and scientific distinction in Portugal. It was presented to him by President Jorge Sampaio in a ceremony at...
Roberto Padilla , a USC Annenberg student completing a dual BA Communication/MA Communication Management degree, was named one of eighteen Luce Scholars selected nationally by the Henry Luce Foundation for the 2006-07 academic year. Padilla (pictured) and the other Luce Scholars will spend the year in Asia. Padilla's...
Strategic PR M.A. student Liesbeth De Smedt (pictured) is the winner of the Grand Prize in the 2006 Case Study Competition sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society in alliance with the Institute for Public Relations. De Smedt will receive a $5,000 cash prize at the Arthur W. Page Society's...
Reporters from The Washington Post have won the 2006 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for their series exposing illegal activities and corruption surrounding Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. It is the second consecutive award for the Washington Post, which won in 2005 for its investigation of lead contamination in...
Friends of Herb Klein (B.A. Journalism '40; pictured bottom) have endowed a journalism scholarship in honor of Klein's distinguished career. Klein was sports editor of the Daily Trojan , and later became vice president and editor-in-chief of Copley Press. Klein also served as White House Communications director during the Nixon administration. The first $5,000 Herb Klein Scholarship in...