Alanah Joseph graduated from the Annenberg School in May 2013 with a B.A. in Communications. Now, she works as an Executive Assistant at E! Networks, working closely with the Digital Media and Business Development teams. She discusses her background in M{2e}, and how her undergrad work prepared her for the position she has now.
What have you been up to since you graduated from...
Joann Park, who graduated from Annenberg's Print & Digital Journalism program in May 2014, talks about her current job at Viacom and discusses how her M{2e} coursework prepared her for the media industry.
What have you been up to since you graduated in May?
Joann Park I was accepted into Viacom's summer training program in New York where I focused on digital and emerging...
Many USC undergrads aspire to work in the media business when they graduate. But how are they supposed to keep up with an industry that is changing so rapidly?
That was a problem that Dean Ernest J. Wilson III wrestled with at Annenberg. Part of the answer comes with the brand-new interdisciplinary minor...
In our second segment on "Millennials and Money," we focus on the rapidly-growing field of automated financial advisors. In a recent Oxford University study on jobs that are most at risk of displacement in the next machine age , personal financial advisors rank as the 8th occupation on the...
Kelly Day is currently chief digital officer at AwesomenessTV, a youth-skewing digital entertainment unit owned by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. DreamWorks Animation acquired AwesomenessTV last May in a deal valued at $117 million. Since then, a growing number of YouTube video producers have been acquired by media companies eager to tap a youth audience that no longer gravitates toward...
Mich Mathews is the former SVP and CMO of Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Mathews oversaw a multi-billion marketing spend and over 7,000 marketers. She retired from Microsoft after 22 years with the company in 2011. Mathews now spends her time Angel Investing, and sits on the Digital Advisory Board of Unilever and the Boards of Oanda, True [x] and Bitium. She also starts teaching at Annenberg...
Jeff Bader is currently President, Program Planning, Strategy and Research at NBC Entertainment. He is responsible for overseeing long and short term program planning for NBC's primetime, daytime, and late night programming. The NBC Entertainment scheduling department reports to him as well as the division's research team. He also supervises the windowing strategy for primetime and late night...
Brianna Sacks (Annenberg M.A., 2014) is the third recipient of the Carlson-Gerdts fellowship, made possible by alumna Ria Carlson. Fellowship winners spend 10 weeks as reporters on the Los Angeles Times business desk. While at Annenberg, Sacks was also the editor-in-chief of Neon Tommy, the school’s digital news site. She spoke with Katharine Weimer about her time at Annenberg, her approach to...