Nortec is a genre of electronic dance music developed in Tijuana that first gained popularity in 2001. Nortec music is characterized by hard dance beats and samples from traditional forms of Mexican music such as Banda sinaloense and Norteño - unmistakably Mexican horns are often used.
Edwin O. Guthman was an American journalist and university professor. While at the Seattle Times,he won the paper's first Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1950. Guthman was third on Richard Nixon's "Enemies List."
Akwid is a Chicano rap group. Brothers Francisco "AK" Gómez and Sergio "Wikid" Gómez,who make up Akwid,are originally from Jiquilpan,Michoacán,but grew up in Los Angeles,California. Before becoming Akwid both "AK" and "Wikid" were part of a former rap group named the "Head Knockerz" with other group members Sabu and John Doe
Nortec Collective was a musical ensemble formed by various individual one- or two-man production projects. The group came together in Tijuana,Baja California,Mexico. Their genre mixes electronic music with musical elements and instrumentation of tambora and norteño music,resulting in the nortec style. The various projects began producing and performing nortec music around 1999. In 2001,they were signed to a recording contract with Palm Pictures,and released their first album,Tijuana Session Volume 1,under the name Nortec Collective. The line-up for that album included Bostich,Clorofila,Fussible,Hiperboreal,Panoptica,Plankton Man and Terrestre. The latter two would leave Nortec Collective in 2002.
Regional Mexican music refers collectively to the regional subgenres of the country music of Mexico and its derivatives from the Southwestern United States. Each subgenre is representative of a certain region and its popularity also varies by regions. Subgenres include banda,country en Español,Duranguense,grupero,mariachi,New Mexico music,Norteño,Sierreño,Tejano,and Tierra Caliente. It is among the most popular radio formats targeting Mexican Americans in the United States.
George Gerbner was a professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory. He taught at Temple University,Villanova University,and the University of Pennsylvania.
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a part of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It has 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students. Willow Bay is the dean. Prof. Hector Amaya is the Director of the School of Communication,Prof. Gordon Stables serves as Director of the School of Journalism.
The Annenberg School for Communication is the communication school at the University of Pennsylvania. The school was established in 1958 by Wharton School alum Walter Annenberg as the Annenberg School of Communications. The name was changed to its current title in 1990.
Tim Page is an American writer,music critic,editor,producer and professor who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his music criticism for The Washington Post. Anthony Tommasini,the chief music critic for The New York Times,has praised Page's criticism for its "extensive knowledge of cultural history,especially literature;the instincts and news sense of a sharp beat reporter;the skills of a good storyteller;infectious inquisitiveness;immunity to dogma;and an always-running pomposity detector." Other notable writings by Page include his biography of the novelist Dawn Powell,which is credited for helping to spark the revival of Powell's work,and a memoir that chronicles growing up with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder.
Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and professor in the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.
Murray Fromson was a CBS correspondent and professor emeritus at University of Southern California's School of Journalism,and Center on Public Diplomacy. He was educated in the Los Angeles Unified School District,including Belmont High School in Downtown Los Angeles.
Wallis Huberta Annenberg is an American philanthropist and heiress. Annenberg serves as president and chairwoman of the Board of The Annenberg Foundation,a multibillion-dollar philanthropic organization in the United States.
Los Tucanes De Tijuana are a Mexican norteño band led by Mario Quintero Lara. The band was founded in Tijuana,Baja California in 1987. They,along with Los Tigres del Norte,were pioneers in playing their music in a rougher manner as opposed to the traditional norteño music of northeastern Mexico,subsequently influencing many other norteño artists from Mexico’s pacific states and giving that region of the country its signature norteño sound. During their career,Los Tucanes de Tijuana have garnered several awards and recognitions,including a Latin Grammy in 2012 for the album 365 días,five Grammy Award nominations,nine Lo Nuestro Awards nominations and multiple BMI Awards for Quintero as a composer. They are the first norteño music band to obtain an international film award by winning the Un Certain Regard Angel Film award at the Monaco International Film Festival for their participation in the documentary Los ilegales. In 2008,the group received a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Fame.
Jonathan Aronson is professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication &Journalism at the University of Southern California as well as professor of international relations at USC.
Neon Tommy was the online news publication sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication &Journalism at the University of Southern California. It was active from 2009 to 2015.
The International Journal of Communication is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on communication. The founding editor-in-chief was Larry Gross and it is published by the USC Annenberg Press. Starting with Volume 18 in January 2024 the editor-in-chief is Silvio Waisbord of George Washington University. The journal was established in 2007 and is abstracted and indexed by the Social Sciences Citation Index,Current Contents/Social &Behavioral Sciences,and EBSCOhost. As of January 2024 the Journal has 150,000 registered users around the globe.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tijuana,Baja California,Mexico.
Michael Parks was an American journalist,editor,and educator who wrote on various political events around the world throughout his career. He served as editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1997 to 2000. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting award in 1987 for his reports about the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He also taught at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and served several stints as its director.
Cynthia "Cinny" Clare Kennard is an American business and nonprofit executive,author and former broadcast journalist. She is the executive director of The Annenberg Foundation,based in Los Angeles,and Annenberg PetSpace.
Isabel Castro,also known as Isabel Castro-Melendez,is a Mexican American artist born in Mexico City. She was raised and still resides in Los Angeles,California. Aside from being an artist,Castro's career includes curatorial work,education,journalism and photography.
