Media Highlights

Marketplace
Is this the end of police reality shows?
June 11, 2020

Marketplace quoted Miki Turner on how police are portrayed on television.

MIT Technology Review
How to turn filming the police into the end of police brutality
June 10, 2020

MIT Technology Review interviewed Allissa Richardson about how smartphones have been used to document police violence against Black people, and why the death of George Floyd has created such a broad movement for change.

CBS News
Concerns about election security as 5 states hold primaries
June 9, 2020

CBS News interviewed Adam Clayton Powell III about the Election Cybersecurity Initiative, which is training campaign and election officials how to keep U.S. election secure from foreign cyberattacks.

Los Angeles Times
L.A. police killings: Tracking homicides in Los Angeles County since 2000
June 9, 2020

Los Angeles Times data journalists Iris Lee and Andrea Roberson, both of whom teach as adjunct instructors at USC Annenberg, helped build a webpage tracking police killings in L.A. County over the last 20 years.

WBUR-FM
How technology plays a role In advancing civil rights for Black Americans
June 8, 2020

WBUR-FM's Here and Now interviewed Allissa Richardson about how smartphones have become important tools for Black civil rights activists.

Rolling Stone
Could music companies help black artists by adjusting old record deals?
June 8, 2020

Rolling Stone wrote about a tweet from School of Communication Director Josh Kun on #Blackout Tuesday that challenged the music industry to address inequities with Black artists.

KTLA-TV
‘Black witnessing’ and protest journalism with author and USC professor Dr. Allissa V. Richardson
June 8, 2020

The KTLA-TV morning news interviewed Allissa Richardson about her new book, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism, and the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd.

The Root
The Good, the Bad and the Traumatic: Reevaluating the role of sharing black death on social media
June 8, 2020

The Root interviewed Allissa Richardson about both the power of Black witnessing, and how the widespread online sharing of images of Black death can also be traumatizing.

MSNBC
Some police policy changes begin amid nationwide protests
June 7, 2020

MSNBC featured Allissa Richardson on how the media and the public are viewing the recent Black Lives Matter protests. "The shift that I see right now is that citizen journalists on the ground are highlighting some things we may not have known before," she said.

Washington Post
My tiny, white town just held a protest. We’re not alone.
June 5, 2020

The Washington Post featured an op-ed by Judy Muller on her small town's Black Lives Matter protest. She was also featured on KCRW-FM.

Good Morning America
Celebrities become loudest voices amid protests across the country
June 4, 2020

Good Morning America featured Christopher Smith on whether celebrity statements about the ongoing civil unrest actually make a difference. "If they're out there, truly on the front lines, tear gas flying, National Guard on the march, then that's a profound statement of solidarity and risk-taking," he said.

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