Through a partnership with the Carnegie Corporation and the Knight Foundation, USC Annenberg and four other journalism schools and programs launched on May 26 a new initiative to enhance journalism education and the profession. The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education involves curriculum enrichment, "News 21" incubators for investigative reporting projects, and a...
USC Annenberg celebrated students' outstanding achievements at two 2005 Commencement Ceremonies on Friday, May 13. The School of Communication ceremony featured remarks by Dr. Sidney Harman , founder and executive chairman, Harman International Industries Incorporated; and Tyler...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Norman Corwin, USC Annenberg journalism professor and pioneering radio dramatist, at its May 10 meeting. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky presented Corwin with a resolution commending two milestones: Corwin's 95th birthday, and the 60th anniversary of Corwin's stirring radio drama, "On a Note of Triumph," broadcast to mark the allied victory over...
Timothy Wirth , the former U.S. Senator and Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs who now heads the United Nations Foundation delivered the keynote address at the Walter H. Annenberg Symposium , an annual event presented by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California. Previous speakers have included Gerald Levin , John Warnock , Vartan Gregorian , and John Seely Brown .
Reporters and editors from The Washington Post have won the 2005 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for their series exposing lead contamination in the District of Columbia water supply and the failure of public officials to inform and protect residents. The $35,000 annual prize presented by the School of Journalism recognizes the year’s outstanding work in investigative journalism that led to direct results. Continuing coverage by The Washington Post»
Twenty five journalists have been chosen from 22 states to participate as fellows in the first National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater. Through the generous support of the NEA , the Institute will be organized and conducted by USC Annenbergs School of Journalism from February 21 - March 4, 2005....
The first comprehensive analysis of Spanish-language TV network coverage of US politics was unveiled during a webcast news briefing on Thursday, February 17. Researchers from the Lear Center Local News Archive , a project of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Wisconsin, studied network and local news coverage by Univision and Telemundo stations in Los Angeles, Miami and New York in the weeks leading up to the 2004 local and national U.S. elections. Media advisory
Local TV news broadcasts offered minimal coverage of politics in 2004, according to a new Lear Center report released on Tuesday, Feb. 15. In fact, local stations devoted 12 times as much coverage to sports and weather than they did to coverage of local elections. The...