The Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to announce that León Krauze will become a new Senior Fellow. An author, academic, award-winning journalist, and Emmy-winning news anchor, Krauze will bring his rich personal background and multi-award winning journalistic expertise to CCLP’s conversations and research on foreign affairs and media. Krauze previously…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is delighted to welcome Craig Calhoun as its newest Senior Fellow. A former Director of the London School of Economics and the first President of the Berggruen Institute, Calhoun joins a cohort of CCLP senior fellows who are at the forefront of journalism, public diplomacy,…
CCLP’s Director of Washington Programs Adam Clayton Powell III spoke to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Wednesday on how to explain the 2016 elections through journalism. Broadcasting Board of Governors | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 | Remarks by Adam Clayton Powell III Mr. Chairman, Governors, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Adam Clayton Powell…
Ten journalists from the World Press Institute visited the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism on Thursday to meet with the school’s Dean, Ernest J. Wilson, and several of its faculty. The meeting took place as part of the World Press Institute’s fellowship program, and focused on issues relevant to journalism at Annenberg, in…
On September 19, faculty from across the university gathered to discuss current research at USC related to the Internet of Things (IoT), and possible areas of collaboration. In two discussions over breakfast and lunch hosted by the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, USC professors and deans from the schools of engineering, public…
More than 800 USC students and faculty packed into Wallis Annenberg Hall last Monday night for a panel and viewing of the first presidential debate, an event put on by The Annenberg Center and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. For a full recap with more photos and social media posts from students, check…
CCLP Senior Fellow Nicco Mele was recently named the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mele is currently serves as the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California and is the former Senior Vice President and Deputy…
Senior Fellow Laurie Becklund is an award-winning bilingual Los Angeles journalist, author, integrated media project developer, and CCLP Senior Fellow. She has a 25-year career as a journalist, most of that time as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. She conducted award-winning team investigations into malfeasance and gross negligence at the Los Angeles County Coroner-Medical Examiner; the toxic poisoning of thousands of Mexican "canal people" whose health mattered less than the tomatoes they picked for U.S. export; prominent LA businessmen who secretly owned slums in the name of their pets; and outrageous sexual harassment by media moguls that……
Advisory Board Member John Huey is the former Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.'s U.S. magazines, websites, and other digital content, including TIME, People, FORTUNE, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and Real Simple. Before becoming Time Inc.'s sixth editor-in-chief in 2006, Huey served as editorial director of Time Inc. since July 2001. Before that, Huey was editor of the FORTUNE Group since February 2001. Previously, he was managing editor of FORTUNE since 1995. In 1997, while running FORTUNE, Huey was named Advertising Age's Editor of the Year. In 1998, he was named Adweek's Editor of the Year; and, under his leadership, FORTUNE was……
Background In 2006, the Annenberg Foundation established the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and established and endowed the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. In 2009, the Center's name was changed to the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) to better reflect the breadth of its activities and research. The Foundation established and endowed the Annenberg Family Chair with a $3 million grant in July 2006. The Foundation established CCLP through a $3 million grant scheduled to be paid in five installments of $600,000, beginning in July……