Other Related Programs
We offer many different types of opportunities for Specialized Journalism and Specialized Journalism (The Arts) students to immerse themselves in the professional world while here at USC Annenberg. Students have played an integral part in many of these centers, initiatives, fellowships, media outlets, and other live events and have had direct involvement with the many digital projects these programs have to offer.
CENTERS & INITIATIVES
Annenberg Innovation Lab
The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a space where students, faculty, researchers and business entrepreneurs can collaborate on projects that have practical application and social impact. The Lab produces technological innovations and analysis on a variety of issues including new business models for communication and journalism, organizational and societal incentives, institutional design, and the impact of social networking on the economy, politics and society.
California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting
The California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting partners with news organizations across the state to produce in-depth reporting on health-care issues of importance to consumers and policymakers.
Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship - M{2e}
A major emphasis of USC Annenberg, the Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship initiative offers students both academic opportunities and hands-on research projects to strengthen their knowledge of economics. M{2e} infuses an understanding of economic principles and market behavior through course work across all of USC Annenberg’s degree programs, encouraging students to innovate and experiment with new ideas for communication and journalism.
USC Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media & Society
The USC Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media, & Society advances and enriches the study and practice of sports communication through excellent academic programs as well as research and outreach programs that have a social impact, examining how sports and sports communication reinforce or modify our culture, social values, diversity and economy.
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ANNENBERG ONLINE MEDIA OUTLETS
Annenberg TV News
Annenberg TV News is USC’s television-multimedia news operation. ATVN produces a live nightly newscast at 6pm, Monday through Thursday, that airs campus-wide on Trojan Vision as well as exclusive web content.
Annenberg Radio News
Annenberg Radio News covers the surrounding USC neighborhoods of Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Vernon-Central, Jefferson Park and the Vermont Corridor. Newscasts air live on Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00pm-4:20pm on KXSC 1560am and are archived on their website.
coLAb
coLAb is collaborative storytelling about Los Angeles arts and culture by arts journalism students. An experimental site, coLAb tests dynamic ways of engaging an audience and building communities of interest around various public and private expressions of art around Los Angeles.
Impact
Impact is an award-winning television news magazine. Students pitch, report, shoot and edit stories as well as host and produce the show which airs on more than 50 stations in California and Nevada.
Intersections South LA
Intersections South LA is a community news web site dedicated to covering South Los Angeles and surrounding areas, with contributions from residents, high school students and journalism students from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
NeonTommy.com
NeonTommy.com is the online news and opinion publication of Annenberg Digital News at the University of Southern California that reports local, national and international news, exploring topics from local politics to popular culture.
Trans/Missions
Trans/Missions is the website for the Knight Chair in Media and Religion. Its goal is to serve as a resource for journalists, including journalism educators and students seeking new models for covering politics, science, sex and gender among the other key issues for the 21st century.
Other publications: Blogdowntown, LAObserved, LAist, Leimert Park Beat, The Online Journalism Review, The Daily Trojan, Wave and Witness LA
FELLOWSHIPS & EVENTS
USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program
The USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, funded by The Getty Foundation, is a midcareer education Fellowship for six arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers from online, print, radio and television. Typically one to two of the Fellows come from outside the United States. The Fellowship immerses midcareer arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers from around the world in the distinctive cultural cauldron of Los Angeles.
Engine29.org
A “pop-up” arts journalism laboratory, Engine29 was active from November 5 to 10, 2011, as a real place where 28 alumni from the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program worked on six experimental arts journalism projects. The projects are open source and available at Engine29.org. Past and current Specialized Journalism (the Arts) students worked alongside the USC Annenberg/Getty alumni.
Engine28.com
A “pop-up” newsroom designed to give extensive coverage of theater in Los Angeles from June 15 to 20, 2011 with a reporting staff from 28 media outlets across America. Created as part of the USC/NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater, Fellows produced reviews, analysis, forums, podcasts and videos. Material covered several coinciding theater festivals and conferences: the RADAR L.A. Festival, the 2011 Theatre Communications Group (TCG) National Conference and the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
A National Summit on Arts Journalism
The NEA was a major sponsor of the first-ever virtual National Summit on Arts Journalism held at USC Annenberg in October 2009. A partnership of the four NEA Arts Journalism Institutes and the National Arts Journalism Program, the summit explored new ideas for arts coverage and journalism business models in front of a live and virtual audience of nearly 20,000 people.
[video: first prize project -- Glasstire: State-wide Visual Art Website]