Kait Devir’s path to becoming a Division I lacrosse goalkeeper began with overcoming a major psychological hurdle as a fourth-grader in her native Ridgewood, New Jersey.
“I played attack when I was first starting out, but one day a goalie coach came to our program, and with our goalie out that day, I was thrown in to go work with the goalie coach,” she recalled. “But I was terrified of...
From performance to business and scholarship, the love of music shapes lives and livelihoods.
When Jeremy Hecht was 17, he wrote a song hoping to save another teen’s life. Hecht had already been dabbling in posting his own music videos on YouTube and built a decent following. So, when a classmate shared a video link of a youth who was planning to take his own life, Hecht knew he had...
When then-USC senior Natalie Fung went on a trip with her friends to Las Vegas in Fall of 2013 to commemorate their last year of college, she had the next few months of her life all planned out. Slated to graduate early with a public relations degree, she had lined up a paid PR internship at Nickelodeon....
After 27 years in the TV news game, Mike Huckman was looking for a change. He followed the advice of longtime friends who worked in public relations, and switched paths to corporate communications, specifically the health sciences sector.
Huckman joined his first agency, MSL Global, in 2010. With the fresh territory came fresh challenges. Difficulties acclimating...
Zac Coughlin always had a sweet tooth. Whether it was cake-batter truffles, salted caramel pretzels, or rainbow-sprinkled cookie pizzas, from the time he was 8 years old, Coughlin was constantly baking up mouth-watering confections. Simply, he said, “because it made other people happy.”
“Growing up, I loved watching Cupcake Wars and all the baking shows… but I never saw anyone that...
Impact is a long-form documentary program that launched at USC Annenberg in 2001. The 20-year-old series has given undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to produce in-depth stories as part of the journalism curriculum. Dan Birman , professor of professional practice and...
How values-driven artificial intelligence can reshape the way we communicate.
Mike Ananny walked his dog this morning. He did so with no expectation of privacy.
“I know that I was subject to a wide variety of cameras, whether it’s Ring doorbells, cars driving along, or even city traffic cameras,” he said. “I didn’t choose to participate in...
Michael Parks, the esteemed former director of USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, has died at the age of 78. A Pulitzer Prize winner whose newspaper career spanned nearly 40 years, Parks devoted the last two decades of his life to training, mentoring and inspiring the next generation of journalists, and advancing the field of journalism...
