Nicholas Baradello came into USF as a transfer student and having a learning disability pushed him harder to do his best in his new university environment.

Pulitzer Prize winner and San Francisco State University alumnus Jose Antonio Vargas began his presentation at the Davies Forum with a short video about the prevalence of technology in the future, specifically noting its effects on Obama’s presidential campaign. He offered a somewhat foreign positive outlook on the future of journalism, which he [...]

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney came to USF last Thursday as part of the Davies Forum: Re-making the News and the Human Rights Film Festival. This co-sponsorship is actually symbolic of Gibney’s work: it is part news, part film; part giving people the facts, and part telling people a compelling story in an artistic manner.

The 2009 Davies Forum, entitled "Remaking the News", entertained the first guest speaker of the semester this past Thursday. Paul Jay, founder and CEO of the Real News Network (RNN), came to USF as part of the forum and discussed everything from the war in Iraq, to hip-hop artist Chuck Dee, to the new Obama administration. The RNN is unique because it is funded solely by donations and because its correspondents are native to the area that they are writing about.

The Davies Forum that explored Digital Literacy with Prof. David Silver last spring, seeks to Remake the News and learn more about independent and citizen journalism with documentary filmmaker and media studies prof. Dorothy Kidd.