Journalism professor and award-winning biographer Ed Cray was featured in a PBS documentary Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home , which aired as part of the American Masters series. The program, broadcast nationwide on July 12, featured an interview with Cray, along with Bruce Springsteen , Pete...

Award-winning journalist and editor Frank Sotomayor has been named a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ). At the Institute, he will explore ways to encourage better news coverage of social justice issues. "Frank Sotomayor brings IJJ a rich array of talent and experience as an award-winning editor, journalism educator and longtime leader of efforts to...

USC Annenberg scholars and students will present their latest research at the annual conference of the International Communication Association in Dresden, Germany. Manuel Castells (pictured), who holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, delivers the opening address. His presentation...

Journalism school associate director Patricia Dean has been selected by the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University as the 2006 recipient of the Schwartz Award . The award is the University’s highest honor for distinguished service to journalism and mass communication. Previous recipients include...

USC Annenberg celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2006 on Friday, May 12. The School of Journalism satellite ceremony honored students receiving B.A. and M.A. degrees in print journalism , broadcast journalism , online journalism , and public relations . The ceremony featured remarks by author and journalist...

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced on April 24 the launch of the Knight New Media Center , to be based at USC Annenberg School and the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Eric Newton , director of journalism initiatives for the Knight Foundation, and USC Annenberg Dean Geoffrey Cowan (pictured) made the announcement at the annual convention of the American Society...

NBC executives have selected graduate students Shawna Thomas (pictured, top) and Leo Juarez (pictured, bottom) for the NBC News Associates Program . Only five students are selected each year from a pool of hundreds of students from the best journalism schools in the country. According to...

Amy Tenowich , a first year broadcast journalism graduate student, is the 2006 winner of the Art Buchwald Scholarship . The prize, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and USC Annenberg journalism school alumnus, is awarded annually on April 1 to a student selected for humor writing. According to Buchwald, who provides financial...