When Manuel Abud , the CEO of the Latin Recording Academy, first met the five USC Annenberg students who received academy fellowships, he asked them to name their favorite Latin singer. Over Zoom, some mentioned some popular current artists, including Bad Bunny and J Balvin, but senior...
As she prepared for her Zoom call with two of the editorial leaders of The Day newspaper in New London, Connecticut last Spring, Taylor Mills couldn’t help but be nervous. After all, she and her partner were about to point out flaws in the paper’s website and social media.
“I was scared we would seem insensitive — the idea that students who are going to a university across the country...
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The Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has been an enormous hit. For one group of USC Annenberg students, at least some of its appeal came down to tiny details specific to the Asian American experience.
Melinda Wang, a math and economics major in May Lee’s “Asian American History and Journalism” course,...
USC’s Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement ignited Flores’ love of storytelling — and brought him to the University Park Campus. Now he’s here as a USC student.
Coming to USC this year as a freshman was a homecoming of sorts for Abraham Flores. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, he was a frequent visitor at the University Park Campus; now he can walk around as a...
It was September of 2020, the first time the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros of Major League Baseball played each other since it was revealed that the Astros stole signs from the Dodgers during the 2017 World Series. While most sports observers were focused on what was happening on the field, for Courtney M. Cox and...
As any graduate student will tell you, coursework and projects are instrumental to learning and growing in your chosen profession. In some cases, these assignments can even become part of the portfolio that lands you a coveted job offer.
That’s exactly what happened to Jackson Martinez, who is pursuing his ...
Most of the world saw the July 20 launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, with Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on board, through either TV or social media. USC Annenberg senior public relations major Ian Solano got to experience that moment from inside Blue Origin headquarters in Kent, Washington.
“It was a room filled with hundreds of engineers,” recalled Solano, who...