Whether the topic is medicine, law, politics, economics, gender relations, immigration or the environment, beliefs shape attitudes and behavior — a connection that reporters too easily overlook. In recent years, students in “Specialized Reporting on Religion and International Relations” have examined the economic and political crisis in Greece; the challenges... Read more
Kelli O’Mara, Class of 2015, Sports
“At USC, I got to work on challenging projects I never would have had the chance to otherwise, whether that was learning how to shoot mini-documentary about obstacle course racing or building an entire interactive website from scratch. My thesis advisor walked me through the steps I needed to code and build my website, which was designed to be a...
Here is a series of stories students enrolled in:
Everything is a business story. You just have to know how to look at it. It’s a mantra I repeat frequently to my students.
This past spring, I set out to prove it in my graduate business reporting class, Follow the Money. Our topic: the environment. Many think of the environment as a story about science, government policy, or...
Here are links to professionally published stories that students have produced in Jour 571: Advanced Sports Reporting taught by Alan Abrahamson .
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/inside-crossfits-weird-cultish-and-moneyed-up-rival-the-grid
http://espn.go.com/espnw/athletes-life/article/13679840/how-...
USC Impact is an award-winning television newsmagazine produced by journalism students at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Here are some stories MSJ students have produced for the show.
Active Aging
Produced by Helena Liikanen-Renger http://impact.uscannenberg.org/segments/2013/05/active-aging.html...
In 2010, as record numbers of Californians sought food assistance, the USC Annenberg School for Journalism & Communication teamed up with California Watch , a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting , to launch an investigative multimedia series,...
Between Homelands was the 2015 production of the public radio documentary class taught and edited, in workshop style, by veteran radio journalists Sandy Tolan and Karen Lowe. The series explored immigration through individual stories representing the myriad communities that make up Los Angeles. Reporters in the class found in each place a singular voice who, in her or his own words, brought...
In the summer of 2014 record numbers of unaccompanied Central American minors — and thousands of others, arriving with family members — crossed the southern US border and gave themselves up to American immigration officers. Tens of thousands were detained — some were deported, and others released to family members or guardians. In early 2015, a team of 15 graduate and undergraduate journalists...