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Spring 2008 Producers:
Executive Producer:
Matt Mundy
Tuesday Producer:
Katie Riese
Thursday Producer:
Chiara Canzi
| Spring 2008 Hosts
Tuesday:
Laura Weber
Thursday:
Courtney Kabot
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Faculty Advisor:
Willa Seidenberg
| Production Supervisor:
Billy Higgins
Current ARN theme music composed and produced by Andy Sternberg (M.A. Journalism 2007).
Additional music composed and produced by Ben Thompkins (B.S. Music Industry 2008).
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Staff Bios

Kaitlin Funaro

Kaitlin Funaro is a first year graduate student in specializing in online journalism. She has previously worked as a reporter for Annenberg Radio News and is currently working with veteran NPR producer Sandy Tolan. Like all good reporters, her bachelor's degree is in something totally unrelated, Art History. She hopes to produce for radio and eventually work with USAID, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or any international aid program as a multimedia producer and journalist.
High-speed rail
Interview with San Diego relief effort volunteer

Laura Weber

Laura Weber is a second year graduate student at Annenberg. She's a self-professed public radio junkie who mainlines All Things Considered and This American Life. She also enjoys Detroit, hip-hop and Detroit hip-hop. She doesn't enjoy Matt Mundy's taste in hip-hop, on account of its unparalleled and daunting excellence.
Laura graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from Michigan State University in 2004. After graduating, she was hard-pressed to find classified ads "Seeking English Major to write next great American novel," thus relegating her to the annals of world-wary post-collegiate cynics. Now that she's back in school, Laura doesn't like to consider herself a professional student... but she's pretty darn good at it. You can most likely find her pursuing a PhD. this time next year.
A Place Called Home: South Los Angeles enrichment program
Education Solutions in Los Angeles
Obama’s speech “A work of genius”
Defending the defenseless
Bernard Parks speaks about area violence
Interview: Safety of Public Parks
Michael Whitman Interview - Third Planet Energy
Interview with Professor Raphael Bostic on the National Foreclosure Crisis
Interview with Dan Rather

Hannah Kim

Hannah Kim is a second-year print journalism student at USC. Growing up in Southern California, she grew up listening to KNX1070 traffic reports on the radio. This is her first semester at Annenberg Radio News where she works as the PA on the Tuesday edition of ARN. Hannah is also on staff at the Daily Trojan as a copy editor, where she was also a writer for the past two semesters.
Tax Day
Border Fence
LAPD Suicide Rates

Ryan McAllister

Ryan McAllister is a junior majoring in public relations and international relations at USC. Ryan was born and raised in Normal, Illinois, and graduated as a 2005 class valedictorian at Normal Community West High School. Ryan is a proud member of the Trojan Knights, Troy Camp and works part-time at the USC Career Planning & Placement Center. His journalistic interests include international affairs, U.S. politics and sports at all levels. He has previously interned with the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and hopes to one day pursue a career as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. Ryan loves to play tennis, golf, watch sports and travel.
NFL back in L.A.?

Kelly Kidwell

Kelly Kidwell is a junior at USC majorig in Print Journalism and History. This is her second semester working with Annenberg Radio News. She has also worked with Annenberg Television News and the Daily Trojan. When she's not writing and reporting she enjoys spending time with her sisters in Alpha Chi Omega.

Camille Mann

Camille Mann is a sophomore majoring in print journalism and it is her first semester working at Annenberg Radio News. Camille hails from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area where she interned at USA Today her junior year in high school, which helped her decide to study journalism in college. Camille is currently a member of Gamma Phi Beta where she is the Athletics Chair. When Camille is not studying, she loves playing soccer.

Jonathan Horn

Jonathan Horn is a first-year graduate student in Broadcast Journalism. A San Diego native, Jon can never get too much Southern California sun. He spent his college years studying Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also called several Gaucho sports on the campus radio station. Not wanting to leave this region, he decided to continue his journalistic endeavors at USC, which he hopes will springboard his career to the network sportscasting level. He can now be heard calling play-by-play for the Trojan Women's Basketball team's road games, and, of course, on Annenberg Radio News.

Daryl Paranada

Daryl Paranada is a second-year graduate student majoring in print journalism at USC. Born and raised in the lovely Bay Area, Daryl received his B.A. from the University of California, Davis, majoring in English and Communications. He has held a number of internship positions at various newspapers in California and spent this past summer in Cape Town, South Africa, working for the Cape Argus Tonight. After graduating from USC, he hopes to land a job at a magazine and eventually become an editor (while writing novels on the side). In the two or so hours he is not busy working on projects for school, he enjoys listening to music, hanging out with his friends and writing.
Organizations celebrate May Day
Community activists to city leaders: Invest in youth programs
Remembering Armenian Genocide
Laborers march to fight for good jobs
South LA residents react to a plan for a new park
Community gathers to honor King’s legacy with moratorium
Celebrating April Fool’s Day
Reflections on race in the ‘08 campaign
Exhibit displays real human body parts
County-wide coalition rallies against education funding cuts
Taking a ride on the bus ride
Valentine, Arnold Style
Mortgage Relief With Project Lifeline
National Black HIV and AIDS Awareness Day

Courtney Kabot

Courtney Kabot is a first-year broadcast journalism graduate student at USC Annenberg. Currently she's hosting the Annenberg Radio News Thursday show. Last semester she volunteered as a writer/shooter/editor for Annenberg TV News. Courtney received her B.S. in Communications at James Madison University in 2005. After college, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she job-hopped from public relations to business development to political consulting. After a summer of backpacking around Europe, Courtney packed up her Honda Civic and drove cross country in hopes of pursuing a more fulfilling life and career. She is happy to be part of the Trojan family and aspires to work for CNN in the (near) future.
Courtney Kabot talks with L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne Burke
Talking with Ralph Fertig about affordable housing in Los Angeles
Interview with Washington Post investigative reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Alec Levenson host interview
Jean Ross host interview
T.C. Boyle interview
Interview with transit expert Lisa Schweitzer

David de Sola

David de Sola is a second-year graduate student. Originally from El Salvador, David has also lived, studied, and worked in the United States, Holland, and Italy. David is working on a degree in print journalism and also volunteers as a reporter for Annenberg TV News. He has a B.A. in history from Tufts University and moved to Washington DC after graduation. He decided to try his luck as a member of the Fourth Estate and eventually wound up working at CNN's Washington bureau. His journalism role models are Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh, James Risen, and the 60 Minutes team. During his free time, David enjoys reading, playing guitar, traveling, and listening to his iPod (current favorites: Interpol, Dire Straits, Chemical Brothers, and Nine Inch Nails). He eventually hopes to work as a political, investigative, or foreign correspondent for a major news organization.
Latino Catholics
Immigration raids
Gang Politics
Car wash
Mayor budget
Homicides in South Los Angeles
Bus stop shooting
Taxes and stimulus package
Becerra Politics Interview
Gang Proposal
Racial profiling allegations against L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies

Marissa Monroy

Marissa Monroy is a second-year graduate student studying Broadcast Journalism. She enjoys long walks in the rain, sports and naps in all their glory. She currently works as a multimedia reporter for Pop + Politics and recently finished producing two mini-documentaries. The majority of Marissa's media experience is in television news, most recently as a producer for The Associated Press. However, she is looking forward to many long afternoons in the radio booth. Although she graduated from Notre Dame, Marissa has enjoyed becoming a part of the Trojan news teams. Being the news junkie that she is, Marissa enjoys keeping tabs on the rest of the world. This comes in handy since she's far, far away from her home sweet Texas home.
City Budget

Emily Henry

LA Riots - 16 Years Later

Brian Sica

Brian Sica is a first-year journalism student at USC. He grew up in Bronxville, NY, and hopes to enter the field of journalism in the future. He is a sports enthusiast and loves playing pick-up soccer, baseball, golf and paintballing whenever he gets a chance.
How to make L.A. County better
Dodger Stadium renovations
What people think about Dodger Stadium
What people think
South L.A. residents react to recent homicides
What will you do with your tax rebate?
Yvonne Burke endorses Bernard Parks for supervisor

Katherine Riese

Katie is finishing her master's at Annenberg and currently serves as the Tuesday producer for ARN. She's majoring in Broadcast Journalism, minoring in communication law and media policy, and concurrently pursuing a master's in Online Journalism. When she's not at radio, you can find Katie Executive Producing or directing for Annenberg TV News or giving tours as an Annenberg Ambassador. Originally from the Eastside of Seattle, Katie loves boating, watching Grey's Anatomy, baking with her roommates, and taking trips to Orange County. Ultimately, Katie would love to produce for either a daily news show or a newsmagazine.
Hip Hop High

Sonata Lee

Sonata Lee is a second-year broadcast journalism grad student from Harbor City, CA. She received her B.A. degree from Xavier University of Louisiana where she majored in mass communications with a minor in English. From selling lingerie to greeting Price is Right contestants, Sonata has worked many jobs on her way to Annenberg. Since entering grad school, she's worked as a reporter for Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa and interned at KPCC's Patt Morrison and NPR's News & Notes. Sonata enjoys covering social justice issues and going to spinning class.
LA Riots Retrospective
USC Social Work students make recommendations for affordable housing
Mayor unveils his new gang fighting strategy
Labor community conference
Family of gunned down teen asks for tougher laws for illegal immigrants
Pico beautification
Book fraud
Jamiel Shaw Shooting
Million word challenge
Green Jobs

Natasha Chen

Natasha is a Dean's Scholar in the broadcast journalism graduate program and is currently the supervising producer of Impact, USC's student-produced television news magazine show. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Chen received a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 2006, with a minor in creative writing. In college, her passions included singing in an a cappella group and making student films. Chen continued to pursue her interest in visual storytelling at internships ranging from "America's Next Top Model" to Associated Press Television News in Hong Kong. She was part of Impact's senior producing team that placed at the College TV Awards in March 2007.
Clinton on Super Tuesday

Lilly Fowler

Jessica: Did her decision to become an egg donor prove fatal?

Amanda Becker

Amanda Becker is a native Ohioan by way of New York City. Though she started Annenberg as a print major, Amanda is warming up to the value of convergence. When not in far-flung parts of Los Angeles for various class assignments, Amanda interns at area news outlets like the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the Los Angeles Business Journal and MTV News. If she's not in the digital lab, you can find Amanda at her apartment in Koreatown enjoying cable television programming for the first time in three years.
DWP Workers
Mayme Clayton: Collector of African American Memorabilia and More
Expansion of USC Campus
City Council Launches Graffiti Abatement Initiative

Chiara Canzi

Chiara Canzi is a second-year graduate student in print journalism at USC. Chiara received her B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle in Latin American history. After earning her degree, Chiara spent a year teaching Italian in beautiful rural Virginia. Her interest in journalism was born while she was toddling around the kitchen at her grandmother's feet in Milan, Italy - she wanted to become a storyteller. International politics and social journalism are her main interests accompanied by biculturalism. Chiara is currently a senior producer for IMPACT, USC's Emmy-winning television news magazine. She has interned at Tu Ciudad Magazine and Real Talk L.A. Chiara absolutely loves chocolate and music.

David Chong

David Chong is a second-year journalism graduate student at the Annenberg School at USC. He is also a producer and teaching assistant for Annenberg TV News. David is currently an intern for Marketplace, the business news show on National Public Radio, and has interned for Los Angeles public radio station KPCC. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, David majored in Radio/TV/Film and is a native of San Antonio, Texas. Prior to graduate studies he worked in documentary television on History Channel and Food Network programs.
Barriers to Prison Visitation
Central Avenue Jazz
Wrigley Field LA
Muslim Mapping
Affordable housing in South LA
Contracting in Bad Faith
A New Look Back
Lights Out Los Angeles
Foreclosure Scares

Sam Farber

Sam Farber is a second-year graduate student focusing in Broadcast Journalism and will be producing the Thursday edition of Annenberg Radio News. His voice has been heard on major stations coast-to-coast, from KNX in Los Angeles to WMET in Washington D.C. A sports fanatic, Sam works as a play-by-play announcer and has already put together a lengthy resume. In five years he has called hundreds of athletic events, including multiple NCAA tournament games as well as three seasons of AA baseball. Sam is currently the voice of Cal State Northridge Matadors' baseball and women's basketball, as well as the broadcast engineer for Southern California's Morning News on KNX 1070.
Dream Act
Bombass Muzik
Augustus Hawkins
T Rodgers
Santiago Canyon Fire
Neigborhood Reacts to Southern California Fires
Bolero

Stephanie Meisenheimer

Stephanie Meisenheimer is a junior majoring in print journalism with a minor in French. New to the Trojan family, Stephanie is enjoying her first year at USC. This is her second semester working at Annenberg Radio News. When she is not studying, reporting or interning, Stephanie works for the USC School of Dentistry on a federal grant that provides oral healthcare for HIV/AIDS patients. With a heart for those affected by AIDS worldwide, Stephanie plans to join the Peace Corps upon graduation from USC.
Library cuts
Green Buildings
4,000 Americans Dead in Iraq
Neighborhood council elections
Downtown Learning Center for Homeless Children

Matthew Mundy

Matthew Mundy is in his second year at Annenberg and, much to his future job security's chagrin, is majoring in print. He hails from Toronto, Ontario, and is doing his best to convert Southern Californians into fans of the gloriousness that is ice hockey. He is currently interning at Los Angeles CityBeat and has also worked as a reporter at a newspaper just outside of Toronto, The Mississauga News. He is an avid music fan as well, and writes for smokingsection.net, a hip-hop website. His interests in journalism are wide-ranging, but revolve predominantly around politics and issues relating to conflict, race, class, and all the mess in between. He is getting married this summer and will be moving to New York City in the fall.
Supervisor Debate
Talking with Donald Miller about the Latino Catholic population in Los Angeles
Professor John Laslett interview
Youth Build
South L.A. school groundbreaking ceremony
Recession interview
Interview with Rabbi Allen Freehling
Asian American Republicans
Interview with a victim of L.A. Trade Tech College Racial Profiling

Jean Luc Renault

Jean Luc Renault is a first-year journalism grad student who lives with his girlfriend and their two cats. He has an English degree from Loyola Marymount University, where he also served as a photographer and editor on the school newspaper, as well as a volunteer DJ on the commercial-free radio station KXLU. After graduation, he spent two years in Philadelphia as an editorial assistant for a medical publisher and a writer for the Philadelphia Weekly. Although he has a beautiful television-worthy face and impeccable prose that's more than fit to print, he gets most excited about the possibility of working in radio.
A playground for disabled children
Trojans Leaving?

Tim Werth

Timothy Werth is a sophomore print journalism student from Charlotte, NC. This is his first year working with Annenberg Radio News. If his schedule allows it he hopes to double minor in digital media and international relations with a focus on global communication. He is currently studying Arabic and hopes to work as an international correspondent one day. He is writing a book and hopes to complete it before the world ends in 2012.
Earth Day
The Mayor’s Battle for LAPD
Clean up LA
Play for Life
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