Gabriel Kahn is a professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, where he also is co-director of the Media, Economics and Entrepreneurship program. His principal research focus is studying the business models of the news industry. Before joining USC, Kahn worked as a newspaper correspondent and editor for two decades, including 10 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he served as Los Angeles bureau chief, deputy Hong Kong bureau chief and deputy Southern Europe bureau chief, based in Rome. He has reported from more than a dozen countries. In 1998, Kahn launched Italy Daily, a joint venture of the International Herald Tribune and Corriere della Sera, based in Milan, Italy. He has covered the U.S. Congress for the Washington, D.C.,-based Roll Call, and served as an editor and writer at The Forward, in New York City. He has a degree in Italian literature from Stanford University.