Annenberg Media • October 29th, 2025

Here is every accessible water fountain on USC’s University Park Campus

Temperatures in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday hit uncharacteristic highs for the season — 90 and 92, respectively. The National Weather Service announced a “red flag warning” for LA and Oxnard due to the prevalence of hot, dry air — a combination that can aid the start and spread of wildfires.

As temperatures rise, students and faculty across campus are turning towards water fountains on campus to get ahead of dehydration risks in this heat.

On September 12, USC’s Chief Sustainability O...

Los Angeles Downtown News • April 28th, 2025

Looking Up and Cutting Down: Mayor Bass speaks on the state of LA, unveils budget

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass praised her city as she delivered her State of the City address on April 21, providing a message of hope to Angelenos after months marred by the January wildfires. Her speech highlighted city improvements over the past 12 months and offered insight into the future of LA as it prepares to host several world events.Bass devoted a significant portion of her speech to the wildfires, discussing the loss of life and land in Los Angeles while praising recovery efforts by th...

Los Angeles Downtown News • March 31st, 2025

A Look to the Future: DTLA Alliance unveils 2024 neighborhood statistics

The DTLA Alliance, a neighborhood business improvement district, has revealed the results of its latest yearly survey of Downtown residents and patrons.The survey’s scope included visitor numbers to Downtown, resident demographics, the number of storefronts and jobs in the area, as well as the opinions of visitors and residents who responded to a questionnaire. The findings, announced at an annual breakfast event held by the Alliance on March 18, indicate that the area continues to grow in resid...

The Fulcrum • November 6th, 2025

Community is Keeping this Young News Outlet Alive

In 2018, WAMU 88.5 – Washington, D.C.’s NPR member station – saved beloved local publication DCist from certain death. WAMU’s funding and support kept DCist alive and enabled it to continue serving the community with the thoughtful journalism readers had come to love. Six years later, however, WAMU announced it would shut down DCist in favor of prioritizing audio-first content. DCist then joined the thousands of newspapers and news sites that have disappeared across the United States in the last...

NBC News • August 8th, 2025

Exclusive: Senators urge Meta to roll back Instagram Map feature that sparked uproar

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday calling on the company to “immediately abandon” Instagram’s new Map feature after many app users voiced their privacy concerns online.The purpose of the maps feature, according to a press release from Meta, is to provide a “lightweight” method for users to connect with each other and explore local happenings by allowing people to share where they are in real time. Users can acces...

Los Angeles Downtown News • April 21st, 2025

LA joins the fight: Bernie Sanders, AOC visit city on rally tour

Thousands of Angelenos and visitors attended the “Fight Oligarchy” tour, which featured speeches by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Gloria Molina Grand Park on April 12.Stars also attended, and attendees enjoyed music by Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers and Neil Young.Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez’s tour is a nationwide series of rallies aimed at reigniting the United States’ voter base against what they term oligarchs in government. The April 12 rally featured hours of speeches by...

Los Angeles Downtown News • April 14th, 2025

Change at the Top: City officials, advocates react to LAHSA CEO’s resignation

The Los Angeles Homelessness Service Authority (LAHSA) was dealt a second blow on April 4 as embattled CEO Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum announced her resignation in a letter to the organization’s commissioners. Her resignation came just three days after the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to pull their funding from her agency — a whopping $300 million, about 40% of LAHSA’s budget — and create a new county agency for homelessness.In her letter, Adams Kellum cited the board’s action among her re...

NBC News • August 7th, 2025

Instagram's Map feature raises privacy concerns among some users

The rollout of a new Instagram Map has prompted confusion among some users of the app, who voiced their privacy concerns online after Meta unveiled the feature.The purpose of the maps feature, according to a press release from Meta, is to provide a “lightweight” method for users to connect with each other and explore local happenings by allowing people to share where they are in real time. Users can access their “maps” by going to their DMs. When users click on the map, it shows the geolocatio...

Daily Trojan • February 12th, 2024

Your roommate is a local journalist and the world already depends on her - Daily Trojan

Franklin, with his apparent penchant for analogies, joked with me that journalists are like traffic cops on the 10 Freeway. If you think a police car is nearby, you’ll probably abide by the posted speed limits or only drive slightly above to avoid a ticket. But if you find no cops in sight, you may push your luck. When a locality has journalists assigned to local government affairs, officials are cautious. But take the journalists away and … you get the idea. 
There is — don’t worry — evidence f...

Daily Trojan • November 7th, 2023

Letters between USC and LA officials unveil aftermath of Türkiye Conference - Daily Trojan

The day of the conference
Hours before the conference was supposed to take place, organizers learned Gurbanov would be present. Bay wrote the organizers advised that he not attend, but he did anyway. 
Then, around 50 demonstrators protested for hours both inside and outside the event, interrupting speakers and chanting before Department of Public Safety officers escorted them out of Annenberg Hall. 
Mane Berikyan, vice president of ASA, said Armenian students learned of Gurbanov’s presence in th...