Two USC Annenberg students who won the 2012 Chick Hearn Memorial Scholarship were the belles of the Lakers ball Sunday night at the Staples Center, where they were honored in a halftime ceremony at center court.

Humans systematically make irrational decisions and poor estimates, but new research shows that real-world biases such as prejudice and self-aggrandizement may be explained by simple “noisy” deviation in our mental processes. In a forthcoming paper, doctoral student Martin Hilbert offers an important...

The Los Angeles Lakers have announced the 2012 winners of the Chick Hearn Memorial Scholarship, which will be awarded to two USC Annenberg students at halftime of the Lakers-Memphis Grizzlies game Sunday, Jan. 8 at center court

Rachel Will (B.A. Public Relations, '12) is one of 14 students nationwide to win the 2012 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship.

Will, who hopes to pursue a career as a foreign correspondent and report from Southeast Asia, will accept the award in New York on Feb. 17 at the...

The December issue of NewsPro, "The Magazine for News Professionals," ranked USC Annenberg No. 5 on its list (see page 22) of top journalism schools in the country. Other schools in the top five included Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Northwestern’s Medill School, Columbia University’s Graduate School of...

We hope students enjoy their well-deserved winter break that begins today and runs through Sunday, Jan. 8. Now that final papers, presentations, articles and packages are all turned in, students can re-energize before the start of the spring semester. If you're a student and have an article or media package that you created for class and want it to find a larger audience, you may submit it to...

A team of seven graduate students will take a two-week research trip to India while reporting on the country's public diplomacy efforts and posting entries on the already-live "India: Inside Out" blog