The McCormick Foundation has awarded a $120,000 grant to USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) for a two-part fellowship program for ethnic media journalists, focusing on news coverage of urban environmental justice.

Annenberg TV News, USC Annenberg's student-run nightly newscast, announced its Election Central section is up and running beginning Oct. 27, and will air live on election night beginning at 7 p.m

USC Annenberg welcomes back its alumni on Nov. 1 before the homecoming football game against Washington with a day full of re-connections, new connections and good ol'-fashioned fun

William H. Perkins, a professor of speech pathology who was a nationally recognized authority on stuttering, died Oct. 6, as a result of complications from a fall in Baldwin Hills, Calif. He was 85

USC Annenberg and Dean Ernest J. Wilson III hosted Trojan Parents Weekend Oct. 10-11, including a Breakfast with the Dean, Open Forum with special guest former California Governor Gray Davis, and a catered picnic before the the USC football team's 28-0 win over Arizona State

In a special report, researchers at the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, led by communication professor Jonathan Taplin, evaluate the major party candidates' positions on hot-button media and technology topics, such as media consolidation and network neutrality

Communication professor Janet Fulk (pictured), along with USC Ph.D. alumnus professor Yu Connie Yuan of Cornell University, recently received a grant of $568,754 from the National Science Foundation. Communication professors Peter Monge and Dmitri Williams also received grants from the NSF