It was September of 2020, the first time the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros of Major League Baseball played each other since it was revealed that the Astros stole signs from the Dodgers during the 2017 World Series. While most sports observers were focused on what was happening on the field, for Courtney M. Cox and...
USC Annenberg and Spotify are collaborating to feature diverse voices from Spotify’s perch atop the podcasting industry.
In part one of a three-part series, USC Annenberg Dean Willow Bay was joined by Jemele Hill, an award-winning sports journalist, culture critic, and creator and host of the Spotify podcast “Jemele Hill is...
As any graduate student will tell you, coursework and projects are instrumental to learning and growing in your chosen profession. In some cases, these assignments can even become part of the portfolio that lands you a coveted job offer.
That’s exactly what happened to Jackson Martinez, who is pursuing his ...
The USC Annenberg program for media-savvy high school students kept Kymia Freeman engaged during the pandemic and helped fulfill her dream of becoming a full-fledged Trojan.
Kymia Freeman was eager to get a jump start and a sneak peek into USC student life when she was accepted into the...
Most of the world saw the July 20 launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, with Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on board, through either TV or social media. USC Annenberg senior public relations major Ian Solano got to experience that moment from inside Blue Origin headquarters in Kent, Washington.
“It was a room filled with hundreds of engineers,” recalled Solano, who...
Loop-the-loops, spiral dives and barrel rolls. In the skies above California, Katherine Sui Fun Cheung began wowing crowds with her daredevil aviation stunts in the early 1930s. But her sheer determination to succeed in that male-dominated profession was even more awe-inspiring. At the time, only 1% of licensed American pilots were women, and Cheung was 1% of that 1% as the first...
As a final rite of passage before high school graduation, Martina Ibrichimova opened a time capsule that she created in seventh grade. Pulling open the box of artifacts from her younger self, Ibrichimova saw that she had written a note declaring that her favorite subject was language arts — a passion for the power of words that continues, driving her to choose to study public relations in...
USC has sent more athletes to the Olympic Games than any other U.S. university, and USC Annenberg is part of that proud tradition. This year, 13 USC Annenberg current students and alumni are among the 66 Trojans competing in Tokyo. Of course, USC Annenberg alumni have another Olympic tradition: reporting on the games as journalists.
Two graduates, Brad Luck and Fernando Hurtado, are...
