Public relations professor Craig Carroll has received a $20,000 grant from the Foundation for Public Affairs, an affiliate of the Public Affairs Council in Washington, D.C. Carroll will analyze how the reputations of major corporations are shaped by the ways in which they are portrayed in the news media. The project will measure the amount of attention paid to corporate reputation issues...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored Norman Corwin, USC Annenberg journalism professor and pioneering radio dramatist, at its May 10 meeting. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky presented Corwin with a resolution commending two milestones: Corwin's 95th birthday, and the 60th anniversary of Corwin's stirring radio drama, "On a Note of Triumph," broadcast to mark the allied victory over...
Journalism professor Larry Pryor has been invited to be a visiting faculty member for the Poynter Institute seminar on Convergence Journalism for College Educators in February 13-16, 2005. Designed for university students and educators, the seminar will explore the best practices in the professional converged journalism world. Pryor will participate in a seminar called "Convergence Journalism...
The life of journalism professor Leroy Aarons was celebrated February 10 in the Annenberg School auditorium. Leaders from journalism, education, civil rights and the arts traveled from around the country to participate. Aarons, who founded the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, directed USC Annenberg's Project on Sexual Orientation Issues in the News. He died November 28, 2004...
Leroy Aarons , journalism professor and director of the USC Annenberg School’s Sexual Orientation Issues in the News program, died Sunday, November 28, after a long battle with cancer. He was 70. Aarons was a journalist, author, teacher and playwright whose assignments took him around the globe, and whose stewardship of The Oakland Tribune helped garner a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s 1989 coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco bay area.