Overholser reflects on her time at USC
The Des Moines Register in Iowa won a Pulitzer for Public Service while Overholser was editor.
Tag Archive for: social media
Annenberg to fund social media research
The research will use metric analysis and measurements of social media page views
Student creates social countdown app
Tikr, a countdown app, connects users with friends, celebrities and interests.
Pharmacy school aims to engage researchers in online competition
March Metrics, the school’s first digital competition, will recognize student and faculty’s important bioscience research.
Letter to the editor
The detrimental effects of USC Hook-Ups Of course when I came across the USC Hook-Ups Facebook page this evening on my Facebook, I eagerly perused the posts with my roommate and laughed over some of the better-worded sexploits detailed on the page. However, as the evening progressed and more and more updates began to pop up, […]
Social media increases job transparency
Second semester of senior year can be a tough time for any college student, as graduation looms and job applications, resumes and attending the USC Career Fair become the new norm. Yet USC graduates looking for a job might have one less thing to worry about. Because of the overwhelming influence of social media applications, […]
Online reporting can lead to misinformation
Reporting from Wednesday night’s shooting indicates a need to be careful with breaking news online.
Etiquette should extend to Internet
Social media dominates almost every element of communication for our generation. It is even acceptable to use some names as verbs in colloquial speech: “Instagram that view, bro,” or “Nice to meet you, Facebook me later!” are phrases often overheard on a college campus. The presence of social media is nothing new but, if used […]
Local newspapers should go hyperlocal
The field of journalism is changing rapidly, with social media and the Internet revolutionizing the very nature of the industry. Amid these changes, local and regional newspapers have had to significantly restructure their models to succeed in an increasingly digital world — whether that means going online completely, covering more cities than they’re capable of […]
End of Ping a necessary sacrifice for Apple
We are all aware of Apple’s flawless track record when it comes to creating new gadgets. Their web services, however, have not fared quite so well. Now, with the demise of the company’s social media experiment, Ping, Apple is finally acknowledging its own deficiencies. In choosing to integrate with preexisting social networks Facebook and Twitter […]