The Norman Lear Center is a multidisciplinary research and public policy center exploring implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society. On the University of Southern California campus, the Lear Center builds bridges between eleven schools whose faculty study aspects of entertainment, media, and culture. Beyond campus, it bridges the gap between the entertainment industry and academia, and between them and the public. Through scholarship and research; through its programs of visiting fellows, conferences, public events, and publications; and in its attempts to illuminate and repair the world, the Lear Center works to be at the forefront of discussion and practice in the field.

The USC Annenberg Series on Sustainable Innovation hosts leading innovators and scholars for a dialogue on the central imperatives for effective innovation. It focuses on the challenges and needs for individual, organizational and societal responses to the fast-changing technological landscape, globalization, market turbulence, and the steady transition from an industrial to post-industrial networked society.

Welcome to Impact!

Impact is an award-winning television news magazine produced by journalism students at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.

Our stories are as varied as the students who pitch, report, shoot and edit them. Students also host and produce the show, which now airs on more than 50 stations in California and Nevada.

Impact has been honored with several College Television Awards in the documentary and news magazine categories from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.