A joint conference with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society March 27-28 assesses "the state of the field of participatory media within the overall news and information environment"

The Scripps Howard Foundation announces Julia Wong (B.A. communication '09) as one of nine nationwide winners of a 13-day journalism study trip to Japan and South Korea as part of the annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition

Joshua Sharp (pictured, B.A. communication, '09) is one of four college journalists selected for the debut of mtvU's "College Editorial Board" series

A play written by university professor Geoff Cowan and late journalism professor Leroy Aarons about the Pentagon Papers makes its final national stop March 12-16 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles

Twelve U.S. journalists from ethnic media organizations have been selected to take part in a fellowship program on immigration coverage organized by USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism, announced IJJ director Steve Montiel (pictured)

USC alumna Andrea Gardner (M.A. print journalism, '04) explores the ways advertising targets women in a new book titled 30 Second Seduction: Advertisers' Changing Tactics and the Women Who Fall for Them

E.J. Dionne, Jr., author and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, says at a USC Annenberg event on March 5 that evangelical Christians of the "religious right" are broadening their agenda, which could help Democrats in the 2008 presidential election

Director of PR studies Jerry Swerling says that in an era of citizen journalism, a company's employees will be the biggest advocates in who is supported by the company