As journalism professor Joe Saltzman accepted the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Teacher of the Year award, he said that if it hadn’t been for a compassionate high-school teacher, he “probably would have ended up a window cleaner.”
USC Annenberg announced the recipients of the 2011 Knight Grants for Reporting on Religion and American Public Life. Among many outstanding applications, nine projects were chosen to receive grants between $5,000 and $20,000
Félix Gutiérrez, professor of Journalism, Communication and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC Annenberg, has been chosen to receive the 2011 Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
The Tiziano Project, run and staffed by numerous USC Annenberg students and alumni, was announced as one of 16 winners of the 2011 Knight News Challenge, earning it a $200,000 grant to develop a global citizen journalism platform, Tiziano 360
Sponsored by the center's Hollywood, Health & Society research project, the award highlights examples of popular entertainment that deliver an important message
Truthdig has now won four Webby Awards in five years. It was founded by communication professor Robert Scheer and alumna Zuade Kaufman.
Journalism professor Bill Celis (pictured) has been honored with the Provost’s Prize for Teaching with Technology award for his “outstanding achievements in teaching through the incorporation of technology into courses and curricula.”
The USC Mellon Mentoring Awards honor individual faculty for helping build a supportive academic environment at USC through mentoring. Communication professors Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Michael Cody and G. Thomas Goodnight each won a "faculty mentoring graduate students" award, and journalism professor Serena Cha won a "faculty mentoring undergraduate students" award