Melanie Ciolek (Master's in Public Diplomacy '11) is USC's lone representative and one of only 85 Presidential Fellows in the country. "As a part of the Fellows Program, I want to explore the connections between the Presidency and the development of American public diplomacy strategy," she said.

Graduate student Brandon Reynolds (pictured, M.A. Specialized Journalism '10) won first place in USC's sixth-annual Wonderland Award for Wonderland at Sunset: A Case of Vanishing, a creative modern-day Wonderland script by way of a police report transcript about a starlet who disappears from a nightclub

Helen Moser (B.A. Print Journalism/Political Science '10) was one of 75 students chosen out of more than 630 applicants for the highly competitive Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship

As friends, colleagues and former students gathered at USC Annenberg on April 22 to honor the 100th birthday of Norman Corwin, the USC Annenberg writer in residence entertained the guests with unscripted anecdotes, friendly jabs at deans and colleagues, and a message of thanks

USC Annenberg continues to break new ground in the evolution of digital media and journalism, as school leaders announce this week the launch of Stroome, a comprehensive and collaborative online video editing platform

An April 13 TruthDig article praised "the highly energized office of the Web-based news operation Neon Tommy, sponsored by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism."

James R. Beniger, an award-winning communication and sociology professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and Princeton University who authored a highly acclaimed study of the economic and technological origins of the information society titled The Control Revolution, passed away after an extended battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 63.