An aerial view inside Wallis Annenberg Hall of the new, technologically transformative Media Center and this year’s Specialized Journalism Master’s students.

They are among the first to train, create, build, learn and imagine how storytelling for the 21st century might best be rendered. Every journalism student has access to Annenberg Radio News, Annenberg Television News and Neon Tommy, USC’s online news site that is the most frequently read university news site in the country. Training across platforms is integrated into the Specialized Journalism program, which holds in-depth, long form storytelling and quality writing as core values  – in conjunction with a digital first mentality. The Media Center is home to the new Culture Desk, staffed and conceived by the Arts Journalism Specialized students with an aim to covering Los Angeles, the creative capital of the world. Visual and performing arts, food, fashion, design, film, entertainment and culture in all its manifestations – high and low, the mash-up, the hybrid – drive much of the Arts Journalism students' reporting.