University professor Geoffrey Cowan and public diplomacy professor Nicholas Cull are the editors of the March 2008 volume of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which includes articles from numerous USC Annenberg faculty and grad students

USC Annenberg announces $35,000 award to reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull for coverage of conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

USC Annenberg's Center on Public Diplomacy and the Foreign Policy Association team to collect and analyze statements by U.S. Presidential candidates on world opinion, and world opinion on U.S. elections

Research by communication professor Stacy Smith shows characters in “Best Picture” films are 73 percent male and 83 percent white

Communication professor Josh Kun says in a Feb. 17 book review that the U.S.-Mexico border "is a machine and a metaphor, a tool and a scapegoat, an entire cosmology ..."

"The biggest loser, however, may be Hollywood itself," adjunct communication professor Jonathan Taplin writes in a Feb. 10 New York Post article

The dialogue, hosted by the Center on Public Diplomacy, stresses the importance of “soft power” in the mission of the U.S. military’s new Africa Command

The first of a series of conferences on public diplomacy, the conference will be held Feb. 7-8 at USC's Intellectual Commons at Doheny Library.