The following article by MS in journalism student Bulbul Rajagopal and professor of professional practice...

It was a chance conversation three years ago with Kyla Fullenwider, the then chief innovation officer at the U.S. Census Bureau , that inspired Colin Maclay to get involved in reinvigorating the census with twenty-first-century thinking. “I immediately saw it as a digital...

It was Thursday, March 19, and Laura E. Davis was on her couch at home in Los Angeles teaching her father in Kansas City how to use Skype. After hanging up, she stumbled upon L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s COVID-19 press conference being broadcast live on Facebook.

As she watched the broadcast, Davis noted the phrase...

Annenberg Media reporters continue to provide critical, in-depth coverage around COVID19 — while social distancing. Via Zoom, they spent the last week interviewing experts and talking with students, including student-athletes, about how they are dealing with the changes.

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One of music’s greatest powers has always been its ability to serve our most intimate and private of needs, while also connecting us to others through its sonic social networks.

One way to tell the history of recorded music specifically is as a story of bridging distance and overcoming physical barriers, uniting listeners and performers into collective bonds that care...

Richard Reeves, a renowned longtime faculty member at USC Annenberg and one of the country’s premier chroniclers of the Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan presidencies, has died at the age of 83. A prolific political journalist for The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Esquire, Reeves wrote one of the most seminal works on John F. Kennedy, President Kennedy: Profile of Power , which was...

The following article by USC Annenberg journalism majors Kylie Storm and Ethan Ward (Ward is also working toward a master's in public diplomacy ) originally appeared on Crosstown , a joint data-journalism project of USC Annenberg and the Integrated Media...

On Sunday, March 15, USC Annenberg MS in journalism student Hayley Smith was supposed to be reporting in Armenia — but she wasn’t. Then, she was supposed to be in Alabama — but that didn’t happen either. Instead, she went to two sparsely attended Masses in Los Angeles Roman Catholic churches, which were likely some of the last...