About two years ago, I started the Argus Quartet along with three wonderful LA-based string players. In our short time together, we’ve had some amazing musical experiences, including appearances at the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, the Hear Now Music Festival, Laguna Beach Live!, the Birdfoot Festival, and Music Academy of the West. We made our Carnegie Hall Debut in October, and we are slated to...

Music writer and editor Evelyn McDonnell reflects on USC

The Annenberg Fellowship came at a pivotal time in my professional life. The Master's in Specialized Journalism program helped me retool by teaching me new technological affordances, which I now teach to my students at Loyola Marymount Uuniversity. In turn, I have sent some of my students to the program. I also was able...

Dylan Valley, ’14, is the sixth of our alumni to have his thesis project published or produced. In October 2015, his short documentary film about Issa Rae, "Awkward is the New Black" was released. Valley is commissioning editor for South African Broadcasting Corporation and film & video editor at Africa is A Country. Here's what he wrote about it (with a link to the film): http://...

Ricky O'Bannon officially pioneered the role of in-house journalist as a paid practitioner, when he was hired by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after graduation in 2013 from the Arts Journalism Master's...

Myah Williams, '15, is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy leading a project to examine the economic impact potential and social barriers for women entrepreneurs in the LA startup ecosystem.

Alumna Sarah Bennett. LA Weekly hires Sarah Bennett to be Food Editor...

Stephanie Case, '15, followed artist Dominique Moody for two years as Moody designed and built The Nomad, a tiny house on wheels assembled together by hand mostly out of found parts. The LA Weekly published Case's text to coincide with The Nomad's maiden voyage to Leimert...

Tim Greiving, '12, covers film music (and other arts) with his voice for NPR , Classical KUSC , and Southern California Public Radio, and in words for the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and the LA Philharmonic. In 2014 he won a National Arts &...