Growing up the multicultural child of immigrants — her mother is from Mexico, her father from Jamaica — Chelsea Hylton identifies as both Black and Latina. While she celebrates her multifaceted identity, she finds that others struggle with it.
“Los Angeles is a very diverse city, but I went to predominantly white schools here and faced a fair share of discrimination and...
Robert Berger, a longtime journalism faculty member at USC Annenberg and former op-ed page editor for the Los Angeles Times, has died at the age of 82.
Berger died on Sept. 29 at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with head and neck cancer.
Berger first joined USC Annenberg in 2001 and served the school in a number of roles, including teaching newswriting, nonfiction...
As host and lead writer of Telemundo’s only English-language news show, Gabriela Fresquez aims to cover Latinx communities with depth and nuance.
When Gabriela Fresquez watched the news after the 2016 presidential election, she was dismayed by the portrayal of Latinx people. It felt too negative, too narrow. It didn’t celebrate the community that makes her glow with pride.
So...
Growing up the daughter of Haitian immigrants in Miami, Jessica Moulite gained an early respect for journalism — and one journalist in particular.
“My grandma came to America in 1976 and she learned how to speak English by watching the evening news,” she recalled. “I'm one of four girls, and my parents didn't let us watch TV during the weekdays, except for watching the news with our...
Her quest to find purpose in the face of a debilitating nerve disorder drove Alysha Conner to pursue a master of arts in specialized journalism . A GRoW @ Annenberg Scholarship made that dream a reality.
Raised in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills, Conner discovered her love of writing an early age...
The USC Annenberg program for media-savvy high school students kept Kymia Freeman engaged during the pandemic and helped fulfill her dream of becoming a full-fledged Trojan.
Kymia Freeman was eager to get a jump start and a sneak peek into USC student life when she was accepted into the...
As a final rite of passage before high school graduation, Martina Ibrichimova opened a time capsule that she created in seventh grade. Pulling open the box of artifacts from her younger self, Ibrichimova saw that she had written a note declaring that her favorite subject was language arts — a passion for the power of words that continues, driving her to choose to study public relations in...
The first skateboard that Amelia Brodka ever rode actually wasn’t hers. “My brother got one from my parents right after we moved to America from Poland when I was 8 years old — and he actually didn’t want me to use it,” said Brodka, who graduated in 2012 with a dual degree in communication from USC Annenberg and...