News

Communication Major Alumna Q&A: Mika Rao (C’96), Managing Director, Regional Communications & Public Affairs at Teach For America

Rao discusses the differences and similarities between nonprofit and corporate communications, and how the field has changed.

Communication Major Alumna Q&A: Ashley Parker (C'05), White House Reporter for the Washington Post

Parker discusses how she got into journalism and what it's like to cover the Trump White House.

• Media Institutions

Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication Welcomes Des Freedman and E. Patrick Johnson

Freedman studies media policy, and Johnson is interested in black, feminist, and sexuality studies.

• Culture & Media

Debunking Study Suggests Ways to Counter Misinformation and Correct ‘Fake News’

Debunking is more effective — and misinformation is less persistent — when an audience develops an explanation for the corrected information.

• Health Communication
• Media Institutions

Mutz Wins Doris Graber Award from American Political Science Association

Mutz won for her book In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media.

• Political Communication

Zelizer Named 2017-2018 USC Shoah Foundation Rutman Teaching Fellow

Zelizer will use her fellowship to teach a research seminar on visual memory of war and genocide.

• Culture & Media

New Meta-Analysis Shows Peer Influence Doubles the Risk Adolescents Will Smoke

Teens from collectivistic cultures also more swayed by peers than those in individualistic cultures.

• Health Communication

Jamieson Named a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard for Fall 2017

She will explore the role of the press in reinforcing norms of democratic discourse.

• Political Communication

Studies in Visual Communication, a Pioneering Journal Published 1974-1985, Now Available Online

A number of the works published in the journal became foundational texts in visual studies.

• Culture & Media

Numerous Annenberg Faculty and Alumni in New Book: The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

The handbook focuses on the greatest theoretical contributions to the field of political communication.

• Political Communication