The last two years saw box office chaos, a flurry of commitments from studios to underrepresented communities, and the second-ever woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. But did 2020 and 2021 bring any true change in the composition of directors working behind the camera? A new study offers insights on where there has been progress and where there’s room to grow alongside the launch...

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When ProPublica received a trove of tax data from an unidentified source — the largest confidential leak of tax records in U.S. history — the journalists there knew this data could provide an unprecedented window into how the ultra-wealthy avoid paying taxes.

“It seemed extraordinary,” recalled...

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At USC Annenberg , we are teaching, training and inspiring students to fill a talent pipeline of communication and media professionals — a job category that is projected to...

David Craig, clinical professor of communication and co-director of the Global Media and Communication (MA) program, maps the rise of creator culture - an industry distinguished by cultural entrepreneurs harnessing social media platforms to create value.

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My quiet quest to find home away from home.

There’s something familiar and embarrassing about going to Chinatown. Maybe it’s the embarrassment that’s familiar, or the familiarity that’s embarrassing.

Either way, walking up to the peeling and artificially red wooden gates of new Chinatown in Los Angeles reminds me of the times I asked my grandpa...

From the time he was 12 years old, Donald Suxho knew he was not only going to play volleyball, but he was going to be one of the greatest players in the world — a big dream for a young man growing up in communist Albania in the 1980s and ’90s. Suxho recalls standing in line for bread and cheese in his poverty-stricken hometown of Korçë as a child. “If you didn’t get your food by 7 a.m., you...