Click here to view the ATVN Broadcast Handbook, the reference guide for everyone working at ATVN. 

Annenberg TV News (ATVN) is USC’s award-winning television-multimedia news operation. ATVN produces a live nightly newscast at 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, that airs campus-wide on Trojan Vision.  ATVN also creates exclusive web content to enhance our broadcast.

ATVN welcomes all USC students regardless of major or class standing. To get involved with ATVN, you MUST attend our Open House/Sign-Up Dayin January and register with the Annenberg Media Center. 

Each semester, a new staff of students takes command of the newscasts. Students working for ATVN are encouraged to learn and practice as many different skills as possible in order to prepare for their careers. Students learn to make editorial decisions under deadline pressure, to write, shoot and edit, and to use software, cameras and studio equipment found in professional newsrooms. With hard work, they can become proficient in using technology including AVID iNews, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Photoshop. Editorial understanding and technology skills make our graduates competitive in media operations across the country.

If you are an undergraduate currently enrolled in JOUR 203, JOUR 303, or JOUR 306 and are a broadcast journalism major, you must fulfill a learning lab requirement at ATVN. These are the positions that are associated with the learning lab requirement for the following core curriculum courses:
JOUR 203 – Studio Crew/Graphics (two 2-hour shifts per week) or Multimedia Journalist (4-hour shift per week)
JOUR 303 – Multimedia Journalist (4-hour shift per week) or Studio Crew/Graphics (two 2-hour shifts per week)
JOUR 306 – Multimedia Journalist (4-hour shift per week) or Web Supervisor (4-hour shift per week)

If you take JOUR 402 reporting or JOUR 403 producing in your junior or senior year (or as grad student, see below), you will fulfill a learning lab shift at ATVN.
JOUR 402 - Reporter (all-day shift every other week, plus evergreen packaging for ATVN on alternating weeks)
JOUR 403 - Newscast Producer (one all-day shift each week)

If you are a non-major interested in earning 2 course units for your ATVN work through JOUR 210x, please see Associate Director Rebecca Haggerty at the Sign-Up Day to discuss your weekly assignment.

Graduate students may participate in ATVN though the required Media Center shift (during the Fall semester) as well as on a volunteer basis throughout the year as anchors, reporters or multimedia journalists. 

Whether you are a core learning lab student, journalism-major volunteer or non-major volunteer, you are encouraged to try as many positions as your schedule allows. Volunteers typically start with a studio shift, graphics or multimedia journalist. There may be opportunities to work your way up to becoming a reporter and/or anchor.

ATVN skills have helped our graduates succeed at the network and local level. Visit our alumni section to see examples of where our graduates work on the air and behind the scenes.

Note to anchor applicants:

To be eligible for an anchor position, you must come to the Sign-Up Day and sign up for an audition time. Anchor auditions will be at the beginning of the Spring semester.  You must show up on time for your audition (deadlines and details will be provided at the Sign-Up Day). Anchors must be available from 12 - 7 p.m. on at least one day, Monday through Thursday. As a news anchor, you must be able to complete day-of-air deadline packages and cover major stories assigned by the producer of the day. If you are selected for weather or sports, you are responsible for producing your own segments. For more information, see Positions.

For more information: 

Please contact Stacy Scholder, Director of ATVN, or Rebecca Haggerty, Associate Director of ATVN.