Nearly a dozen students received awards from major industry organizations over the weekend, highlighting some of the best of print and visual journalism produced at USC Annenberg.

Now in its second year, CRUNCH is a competition and workshop series for interdisciplinary student-led teams to develop innovative prototype concepts. The winning teams are awarded cash prizes in addition to a research & development account to further develop their concept at the Innovation Lab

After they graduate this May, six current second-year journalism master’s students will spend the summer reporting on the intersection of community, ethnicity and the 2012 presidential campaign as part of the News21 project.

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...

From the March issue of the COMM.raderie newsletter:

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Lori Kido Lopez accepted a job as Assistant Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. LeeAnn Sangalang, along with Ryan Hurley (North Carolina State University) and Julius Riles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), had a paper accepted for publication in...

Seven graduate students returned from a recent two-week research trip to India full of new knowledge, ideas and life-long memories