Associate dean Martin Kaplan warned a panel of Federal Communication Commission members about "the disappearance of local voices and local issues from local news" during a town hall meeting in Los Angeles on August 31. The meeting, organized by the National Latino Media Council, invited public testimony on new rules under consideration by the FCC on media ownership. USC Annenberg's...
Communication professor Josh Kun has been awarded the 2006 American Book Award for Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (University of California Press). The book explores the constantly evolving, endlessly hybrid musical culture that exists in American cities and how it has affected the history of racial...
Larry Gross , director of the School of Communication, was elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association at the group's annual conference in Dresden, Germany. One of the highest honors in communication studies, fellows are selected for "distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication." Gross's...
Geoffrey Cowan , dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, has been named the inaugural holder of the newly-established Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership . The endowed chair is made possible by a major gift to USC from the Annenberg Foundation ...
USC Annenberg welcomes nearly 400 new faces as the Fall 2006 semester begins Monday, August 21 . Joining the roughly 200 incoming master's and doctoral students in communication , communication management , journalism ,...
Journalism professor Bill Celis has had three articles printed as part of a nationally syndicated Public Access Journalism series on battling drug and alcohol addiction in today’s society. The twenty-piece series was written over the course of a nine month period by five different journalists for PAJ. Celis’ articles focus on the...
Communication professor Douglas Thomas' politically focused computer game was featured in a New York Times article about the current expansion of the serious video game market. Since the creation of games like MTV's "Darfur is Dying" and USC Center on Public Diplomacy contest winner "Peacemaker," developers are focusing on games that role play complex real-world political and social conflicts...
Three USC Annenberg graduate students produced "Tale of Two Cities," for the July 21 edition of California Connected , a PBS program covering state and local issues. Laura Cavanaugh , Leo Juarez and Dave Eisenberg edited and produced the segment for their ...