Journalism professor Philip Seib will be the director of the Center on Public Diplomacy - a partnership between the Annenberg School and School of International Relations - beginning July 1

Thursday’s full day of Beyond Broadcast 2009 at USC Annenberg featured international stories of digital media startups and shared knowledge public interest media

The first full day at Beyond Broadcast 2009 began with communication professor Sandra Ball-Rokeach keynoting a talk on "Public Service Media: Three Conceptual Tools" in which she discussed the importance of enabling storytelling in individual communities

USC Annenberg Dean Ernest J. Wilson III and communication scholar Henry Jenkins opened the fourth-annual Beyond Broadcast conference with observations about the importance of public media and the future of a participatory democracy enabled by technology

USC Annenberg and the Social Science Research Council's Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere program co-hosted a two-day gathering June 2-3 of grantees, program partners, scholars and advocates at the Annenberg School. The workshop attendees discussed strategies to improve and increase research-advocacy collaborations on media and communications issues

Hundreds of media professionals and scholars from around the world will explore the future of media and its potential to serve the public at the fourth annual Beyond Broadcast conference starting June 3

Journalism professor Richard Reeves wrote a recent BusinessWeek op-ed about Americans' persistant optimism, using an anecdote from his students to deliver his message

"An Afternoon with Tom Brokaw: In conversation with Geneva Overholser" drew a packed crowd May 28 as television journalist Brokaw and School of Journalism director Overholser discussed topics such the role of young people in role in the news industry