Dean Ernest J. Wilson III wrote an article for the Spring 2012 issue of strategy+business magazine about innovation clusters needing to draw on the power of an interrelated “quad” of sectors — public, private, civil and academic...
Reporting from New Delhi — Hello from India! We're at the end of day three in a whirlwind 10-day tour of India with Journalism 585, Reporting on Religion. Over spring break, eight graduate students, another undergrad and I are interviewing and writing stories in New Delhi, with an emphasis on religion and politics. None of us had been to India before. So far, it's been overwhelming and in-your...
USC Annenberg students and faculty took part in a community celebration of the 84th birthday of slain journalist Ruben Salazar at la Plaza de la Raza in East Los Angeles last Saturday. Salazar, a Los Angeles Times columnist and KMEX news director, was killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff after the National Chicano Moratorium March in East L.A. on August 29, 1970. The event, spearheaded by...
As part of USC Annenberg's High School Journalism Day, alumna Kyra Phillips tells local high school students to "ask tough questions"
Los Angeles is filled with stories worth telling. But with newspapers facing staff cuts, certain neighborhoods get overlooked by the media or endlessly reported in the same tired ways. USC Annenberg is trying to meet those journalistic challenges by launching several projects that are breaking stories no one else is, all while training young journalists how to report on underserved neighborhoods
Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times have been awarded the 2012 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting , for their three-part series “...
USA Today featured the success of the " Senti-meter, " a project that relies on new sophisticated analytics and natural language recognition technologies to gauge positive and negative opinions shared in millions of public tweets.
The Senti-meter is a joint project among the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab...
Alison Trope’s new book, “Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood” explores how Hollywood portrays its history and the tension between preservation and capitalization