By most accounts, Darlene Lovell-Parker’s path to the USC Annenberg online Masters of Communication Management Program, from which she will graduate this spring, was anything but conventional.
A wi-fi connection and a computer — or tablet, or even smartphone — is all you need to complete a master’s degree.
This summer the online Master of Communication Management degree program graduated its 100th student. Distinct from its on-campus counterpart in both environment and duration, the online master’s is an intensive...
A new era has commenced at USC Annenberg, complete with a new building that Professor Larry Gross called “the perfect instrument for research, for teaching, for scholarship, for journalism that fits the 21 st century.”
And a big part of that, according to Professor...
When Susan Valot graduated from college, she wasn’t sure she needed an advanced degree in journalism in order to pursue her craft. But when, after 17 years as a working journalist, she began to think about returning to school and becoming the first in her family to earn a master’s, she wasn’t sure how that dream was going to become a reality.
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Diversity can often be just a buzzword or an easily traded form of corporate capital, but it's also an area of intense interest to those studying media and culture. For graduate students pursuing research in the field, there hadn't been a place for serious intellectual discussion of diversity or the sharing of work — until now.
This summer USC Annenberg held the first annual...
The PR/communication industry, boosted by increased budgets and staffing, is enjoying a healthier period and recovering from the recession, according to the eighth Public Relations Generally Accepted Practices (GAP) Study, which is published on a biennial basis by the Strategic Communication and Public Relations Center (SCPRC) at the...
In a piece titled " J-School Makeovers ," Inside Higher Ed highlighted USC Annenberg's decision to condense its two-year M.A. degree in journalism to a nine-month M.S. program starting 2014.
"The shorter program will have a greater emphasis on...
On May 17, Army Maj. Mike Nicholson will be one of 47 students who will have earned MCM degrees online.
