Media Center Advisers, Instructors and Coaches

With television and radio studios, state-of-the-art control rooms, editing suites and social-stream monitoring technologies, USC Annenberg’s Media Center is a high-energy, multiplatform news hub that is open to all USC students. Students create work in a variety of formats and gain leadership experience in the Annenberg Media newsroom, with guidance from award-winning faculty who have industry experience in digital, audio, television and public relations.

Directors

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Director of video

Advisers

Amara Aguilar

Dímelo and community reporting partnerships

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Interactives Desk

Laura Davis

Stylebot

Laura Castañeda

Equity Board

Alan Mittelstaedt

Politics Desk

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Special projects

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Instructors

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JOUR 206 Live

JOUR 206 Live

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JOUR 206 Community

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JOUR 206 Live

Melissa McCoy

JOUR 206 Community 

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JOUR 206 Live

Alicia Ramirez

JOUR 206 Community

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JOUR 206 Community

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JOUR 206 Live and Community

Sam Youngman

JOUR 206 Community

Coaches

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Rundown

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Health and Wellness

Laura Gonzalez

South L.A. 

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elevASIAN

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Dímelo

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Sports

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Black

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James Reed

Entertainment

Tena Rubio

Audio

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David Sliders

Writing

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Yiyi Zeng

Mandarin platforms