Three USC Annenberg researchers discussed the "Tim Tebow phenomenon" during an NFL Network Super Bowl XLVI pre-game show.

by Russell DeVita You wouldn’t think that shows with names such as “Pound Puppies,” “Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures,” “The Twisted Whiskers Show” and “The WotWots” would be the ideal forum for health and safety messages. After all, the Hub TV Channel , a joint venture of Discovery Communications Inc. and Hasbro, creates straight...

By Russell DeVita Hollywood, Health & Society launched its Storybus Tours, a signature series of research trips for TV writers to various locations—this time to gather first-hand reports from those working to ease gang violence in the schools and on the streets of Los Angeles....

By Sandra de Castro Buffington It’s a concept so simple yet so powerful that I don’t understand why it hasn’t found its way on a lot more car bumpers, T-shirts and billboards: Walk around in someone else’s shoes. Chris Keyser , the president of the...

Center on Public Diplomacy director Philip Seib wrote a new article titled Public Diplomacy versus Terrorism. The article appeared in the January edition of Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives...

Marty Kaplan , communication professor and director of USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center , discussed the possibility of Newt Gingrich winning the GOP presidential nomination in...

By Michele McLellan Knight Digital Media Center Since 2007, Knight-McCormick leadership programs at KDMC have given me a front row seat at the transformation of news leadership to meet the demands of the digital age. The more than 100 news leaders who have participated in the programs faced a dizzying array of choices...

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg school released an annual report, detailing the center's activities during the past academic year. Check it out here ....