USC Annenberg professor Peter Clarke (pictured) and USC researcher Susan H. Evans have initiated and nurtured 156 food banks nationwide that now stock and distribute vast surpluses of fresh, nutritious produce that otherwise would have been dumped in landfills

The “Newsonomics” author called 2011 an inflection point in the journalism industry partially because the rise of the tablet reader will create a “mobile, news anywhere” era

MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson (pictured) outlined key Information Technology strategies that businesses can use to increase innovation and profit during the inaugural M{2e} — Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship — event at USC Annenberg

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III (pictured) wrote a recent article in the Huffington Post about the lack of change in U.S. foreign policy since last year's Google-China showdown. "American high-tech companies remain heavy hitters economically at home and abroad, but continue to punch way below their weight politically," he wrote.

The public can vote for Sarah Erickson and her contest partner Joel Kutz until Jan. 28

California bloggers and editors/founders of California news sites are invited to apply for an all-expenses-paid program that combines seminars on how to chronicle local community and civic health with six months of personalized coaching to improve the health and build the audiences of their sites

The magazine calls Henry Jenkins "perhaps the world’s most influential and radical scholar" addressing the questions, "How are digital media affecting what constitutes culture?" and, "What should it mean to educate the citizens of a digital world?"

Associate professor of public relations Jian "Jay" Wang edited a recently released book titled "Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy through Communication" (Palgrave Macmillan).