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Nov 2019
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Sophia’s Favorite College Professor: Chr...

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Christopher H. Smith is a Clinical Professor in the School of Communication at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he also jointly runs the Media, Economics, and Entrepreneurship program. Also, he was Sophia’s favorite college professor! He joins “Work In Progress” to tell us what Sophia was like as a student, how he’s evolved his class over the years with the changing media and digital landscape, what makes media function as a business, the importance of not viewing everything through a U.S. centric lens, and more.

 

Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Sim Sarna

Supervising Producer: Allison Bresnick

Associate Producer: Caitlin Lee

Editor: Josh Windisch

Assistant Editor: Matt Sasaki

Music written by Jack Garratt and produced by Mark Foster

Artwork by Kimi Selfridge

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This episode is sponsored by Beauty Counter, Ritual, and Skillshare.

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