Robert Hernandez explores innovative ways to tell the stories of marginalized communities using emerging technology. His work helps redefine the future of journalism while inspiring students to embrace new tools for impactful storytelling.
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Focusing on sports and politics, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication Rook Campbell analyzes timely events, debates and controversies through a humanistic lens. His approach brings distant, abstract issues closer to home, connecting them to the culture we live in today.
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As one of the newest members of the USC Trojans football team, Kash Lewis Amos shares his journey from growing up an athlete on Chicago’s South Side to discovering a major in communication at USC Annenberg.
The 2024 U.S. presidential, congressional and statewide elections are taking place amidst the backdrop of tremendous societal, cultural and technological transformation. Perhaps more than any other enterprise, political campaigns today navigate the complex challenges of communicating with a wide range of audiences. Citizens have so many more ways to learn about the issues and...
In middle school, Aden Max Juarez discovered an early passion for creative writing, which quickly grew into a dream of becoming a novelist. Eager to learn more about how he could make a career out of storytelling, he enrolled in the closest-related class he could find in his freshman year of high school: yearbook.
“I remember our yearbook class went to a summer...
The word of the year in entertainment seems to be “contraction” and according to a new study, the term can be applied not only to sluggish production numbers but also to Hollywood’s efforts on inclusion.
The report , by Professor Stacy L. Smith and...
Master’s student Daniella Lake isn’t coming to USC Annenberg just to be heard. She wants to be seen.
Lake is a veteran podcaster whose show, “ Life Told By a Stranger ,” spanned both her high school and college careers. Since 2018, she has interviewed subjects...
There’s a well-worn script about those who become the first in their families to notch certain accomplishments. Difficulties are overcome with hard work, leading to accomplishment and a piece of the American Dream.
Alejandra Campoverdi , a native Angeleno whose family resettled from Mexico, wants people to know a...
