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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
Tel: (213) 740-0998
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Intersections South LA is a community news web site dedicated to covering South Los Angeles and surrounding areas, with contributions from residents, high school students and journalism students from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Intersections represents a new approach to journalism and news coverage. Community residents are encouraged to be active contributors in shaping news content, providing news items in a variety of forms, from video, photographs, opinion pieces, on-the-ground reporting, and entries to our community calendar. Our goal is to create a two-way conversation between residents living in South LA and the journalists covering these neighborhoods.
How we define our coverage area:
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This multimedia news site, supported by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is also designed to train high school students at South Los Angeles high schools through Intersections' media literacy program. USC journalism students mentor at Crenshaw, Dorsey, Manual Arts, Fremont, Jordan and Foshay High Schools in the production of media projects.
We are also dedicated -- through our reporting and writing classes at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism -- to train a new generation of journalists to cover news with cultural awareness and sophistication.
We hope you will come to view Intersections South LA as a portal to South Los Angeles. Use your reporting and ours – along with the links we provide to other South LA-based news organizations and institutions -- as a resource to one of the nation’s most vibrant urban centers.
Director:
Willa Seidenberg, Associate Professor of Professional Practice: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Managing Editor:
Veronica Villafañe: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
News about Intersections South LA:
Intersections launch party attracts 130 community leaders -USC Annenberg News
Intersections tells stories of South Los Angeles, urban America -USC Annenberg News
Intersections wins $25,000 “New Voices” grant from the Knight Foundation, through J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University -J-Lab
Filling the news gap: USC and Crenshaw High School report South LA -WitnessLA
South Los Angeles community web site offers lessons for all -Online Journalism Review