USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

History

The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is relatively new. It was established in 1971 through the support of United States Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg. The USC Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and the School of Journalism became part of USC Annenberg in 1994.

Schools

School of Communication: The USC Annenberg School of Communication is the school's center for general communications. It offers degrees from undergraduate to doctorates. Its current director is Sarah Banet-Weiser, who took over from Larry Gross in 2014.

Degrees offered: B.A. (communication), M.A. (global communication, communication management, public diplomacy, strategic public relations), Ph.D. (communication)

School of Journalism Annenberg's School of Journalism benefits from its access to the Los Angeles market. Its director is Willow Bay, who joined in 2014.

Degrees offered: B.A. (journalism, public relations), M.A. (journalism, specialized journalism, strategic public relations)

Centers

The Annenberg Networks Network focuses on social network studies and computational social science. The Annenberg Networks Network

The Annenberg Research Network on International Communication generates research on international communication issues.

The Johnson Communication Leadership Center provides undergraduate scholarships and conducts research on the role of African-Americans in the media.

The Center on Communication Leadership & Policy sponsors research and organizes courses, programs and symposia for scholars, students and working professionals. The center's director is the former dean of USC Annenberg Geoffrey Cowan.

The Center for the Digital Future studies communication technology and mass media and their impact on individuals, communities and nations around the world. Includes the research project:

Surveying the Digital Future

The USC U.S.-China Institute (USCI) informs public discussion of the evolving and multidimensional U.S.-China relationship through policy-relevant research, graduate and undergraduate training, and professional development programs for teachers, journalists, and officials. It produces public events, documentary films, and magazines.

USCI was established in 2006 by USC President C.L. "Max" Nikias (then provost). In fall 2011, USCI became part of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, whose programs include those on public diplomacy, new Chinese media, and economics reporting.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy, operated in partnership with the USC College's School of International Relations, examines how government, corporate and non-state actors engage foreign audiences to facilitate intercultural dialogue and understanding worldwide. Includes the:

U.S. Canada Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy

The Haptics Lab, which develops the science of integrating the sense of touch into human/computer interactions, is supported by the Integrated Media Systems Center, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center.

The Metamorphosis Project is an in-depth examination of the transformations of urban community under the forces of globalization, new communication technologies and population diversity.

The Norman Lear Center is a multidisciplinary research and public policy center exploring implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society. Includes the research projects.

The mission of the Strategic Public Relations Center is to advance the study, practice and value of public relations through research and engagement with professionals in the field.

The Annenberg Innovation Lab

The USC Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media & Society

Professional education

Knight Digital Media Center

USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships

USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program

Institute for Justice and Journalism

NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater

Awards presented

Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education

Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting

USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism

USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowships, one for California journalists and one for journalists coming from across the nation at Center for Health Journalism funded by The California Endowment

Publications

International Journal of Communication

Editors: Manuel Castells, Larry Gross

Online Journalism Review

Editor: Robert Niles (ceased operation on June 16, 2008)

Student activities

Students are active with USC's student-run newspaper, the Daily Trojan; USC Annenberg's online news publication, Neon Tommy; USC Annenberg's nightly television newscast, Annenberg TV News; its TV newsmagazine Impact; Radio show Annenberg Radio News; Community digital journalism news website focusing on South Los Angeles. USC Annenberg is also home to the nationally ranked, award-winning Trojan Debate Squad, as well as student chapters of the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Public Relations Student Society of America. Students also run an in-house public relations agency that works with non-profit and small business clients.

Annenberg TV News airs Monday through Thursday at 6 p.m. on Trojan Vision. Students are responsible for reporting local, national and international news and producing the newscast live on air.

Careers

USC Annenberg's career development office provides services exclusively to USC Annenberg students and alumni. Services include daily online job and internship postings; career and job fairs; and a variety of workshop, counseling and interview opportunities.

Facilities

Resources include a fully digital three-camera broadcast studio, a television newsroom, a digital lab equipped with Adobe Premiere nonlinear video editing systems, four computer classrooms and the Experiential Learning Center. Fourteen classrooms feature multimedia display capabilities. Professional media and research software applications are installed on more than 200 computers available for student use.

International programs

USC Annenberg offers study-abroad opportunities for undergraduate students in Amsterdam, Auckland, Buenos Aires, Christchurch, Hong Kong, London, Singapore and Sydney. Graduate journalism and public relations students may complete summer internships in Cape Town, Hong Kong and London, and public diplomacy students have the opportunity to complete summer internships abroad. USC Annenberg offers a joint MA/MSc graduate degree program in global communication with the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Communication

Jonathan Aronson

Manuel Castells

Nicholas J. Cull

G. Thomas Goodnight

Derrick Hall

Henry Jenkins

Josh Kun

A. Michael Noll

Robert Scheer

Jonathan Taplin

Douglas Thomas

Ernest J. Wilson III

Janet Fulk Peter Monge Patricia Riley

Journalism

K.C. Cole

Marc Cooper

Norman Corwin

Mei Fong

Murray Fromson (emeritus)

Ed Guthman

Henry Jenkins

Josh Kun

A.J. Langguth (emeritus)

Andrew Lih

Judy Muller

Tim Page

Richard Reeves

Diane Winston

Undergraduate

Total undergraduate enrollment (Fall 2015): 1,440

Graduate

Total graduate enrollment (Fall 2007): 545

Finances and fundraising

Annual operating budget, 2007–08: $49 million

Endowment (as of July 1, 2007): $228 million

Undergraduate tuition & fees (with living expenses): $45,810 ($58,403)

USC undergraduates receiving financial aid: 60%