On November 17, Dean Ernest J. Wilson III appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live's "Up All Night" in conversation with Peter Bowes, BBC's L.A. correspondent. Topics included USC Annenberg student journalists' live election coverage, inspirations for the Media Center at Wallis Annenberg Hall, and president-elect Donald Trump's transition team (Dean Wilson was part of President Obama's transition team in 2008).

For USC Annenberg student Chase Peterson (B.A. Communication ‘16), taking professor Alison Trope ’s COMM 494: Critical Media Literacy, Research, and Service Learning class last year was the highlight of his undergraduate career.

He remembers talking to high school students from South L.A.’s...

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Professor and cultural historian Josh Kun has been selected as a 2016 fellow of the MacArthur Foundation.

The prestigious fellowship, known informally as the “genius grant,” provides each recipient with a $625,000 “no strings attached” award over five...

USC Annenberg faculty and graduates participated in the annual 2016 Online News Association conference in Denver last week, which brought together journalists, students, designers, and educators from across the world for a three-day immersion in emerging technology and digital media.

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Longtime USC Annenberg public relations lecturer and renowned entertainment publicist Jack Ryan passed away on August 25, 2016. He was 77.

For two decades beginning in 1983, Ryan taught public relations to several generations of Annenberg students. In 1993, students voted him the most effective adjunct professor at the school. He retired from USC in 2003.

Born June 26, 1939 in...

Author, award-winning journalist and Emmy-winning news anchor León Krauze has been appointed the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism, USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism announced.

A native of Mexico and a longtime chronicler of U.S. politics, immigration, and the lives of Angelenos, Krauze is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and KCRW’s “Left Right and Center...

The PBS series Independent Lens is partnering with USC Annenberg’s Dan Birman and Nashville media company The Tennessean to produce a digital series exploring juvenile sentencing laws in Tennessee.

Scheduled to appear over the next few months, “Sentencing Children” features video pieces produced by Birman, USC...