Communication professor Manuel Castells has been awarded the Order of Santiago , the highest cultural and scientific distinction in Portugal. It was presented to him by President Jorge Sampaio in a ceremony at...
Roberto Padilla , a USC Annenberg student completing a dual BA Communication/MA Communication Management degree, was named one of eighteen Luce Scholars selected nationally by the Henry Luce Foundation for the 2006-07 academic year. Padilla (pictured) and the other Luce Scholars will spend the year in Asia. Padilla's...
Strategic PR M.A. student Liesbeth De Smedt (pictured) is the winner of the Grand Prize in the 2006 Case Study Competition sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society in alliance with the Institute for Public Relations. De Smedt will receive a $5,000 cash prize at the Arthur W. Page Society's...
Reporters from The Washington Post have won the 2006 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for their series exposing illegal activities and corruption surrounding Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. It is the second consecutive award for the Washington Post, which won in 2005 for its investigation of lead contamination in...
Friends of Herb Klein (B.A. Journalism '40; pictured bottom) have endowed a journalism scholarship in honor of Klein's distinguished career. Klein was sports editor of the Daily Trojan , and later became vice president and editor-in-chief of Copley Press. Klein also served as White House Communications director during the Nixon administration. The first $5,000 Herb Klein Scholarship in...
Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis and communication professor Stacy Smith have released the findings of a groundbreaking study examining gender portrayals in G-rated films. The research project, led by Prof. Smith and conducted by teams of USC Annenberg graduate and undergraduate students, found boys overwhelmingly outnumbered girls as characters featured in films produced for children...
A documentary about journalism professor Norman Corwin (pictured) won the Academy Award for the best documentary short subject film. A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin was directed by filmmaker Eric Simonson and produced by...
Public diplomacy visiting professor Eytan Gilboa worries that electoral victories by Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections may not lead to true democracy for the Palestinian people. Recalling past elections in Iran and Algeria, he writes in a Jan. 31 Los Angeles Times op-ed, "Islamic radical...