With its young audience constantly finding new ways to interact with content on the Web, the site's updates include state-by-state analysis of the 2006 U.S. Senate election results.

Religion, public diplomacy, sports and the portrayal of sexual minorities are on the docket as USC Annenberg faculty and graduate students join other communication scholars at the annual meeting.

Applicants to the inaugural class of the new Communication Management degree program area come from both academia and the professional realm.

A decade after voters approved Proposition 209, USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism finds that many minorities are missing out on the expected benefits of the reform bill.

The album, subtitled "Perhaps the most offensive album ever made," features explicitly anti-Semitic turn-of-the-century songs that were played by Jewish musicians.

The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting has been awarded to the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune for revealing the corruption scandalthat led to the bribery conviction of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Karin Winner (pictured), a USC Annenberg journalism alum, is editor of the Union-Tribune.

USC Annenberg faculty and student researchers will be a major part of the annual conference of the International Communication Association, which runs from June 19–23 in Dresden, Germany. Twenty-five Annenberg faculty members and 22 doctoral and master’s candidates will present papers, chair discussions and serve as respondents during the annual gathering of over 1,800 of the world’s foremost communication academics. The theme of the conference, "Networking Communication Research," has elicited paper submissions from USC Annenberg researchers in subjects as diverse as global telecommunications networks and video games.

Amy Tenowich January 2006 Also see: Keeping Abreast of the News Fur has been flying over the recent termination of Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Guerdon Stuckey. Some think Stuckey's firing was politically motivated and unfair, while others feel he wasn't doing enough to curb euthanasia rates at city...