NEW YORK — Look, up in the sky! It's a balloon! No, it's not Falcom Heene floating over Colorado (or not, as it turned out). It's Terry Jimenez, floating over Long Island! Who??? Dear readers, meet Terry Jimenez, hero to newspaper publishers and scourge of free content on the Internet. What, you've never heard of him? Those of you without the Terry Jimenez poster can write to the Newspaper Association of America. Think of the iconic Farrah Fawcett poster, but with presses rolling. Really. No, just kidding (I think)…….
Year: 2009
Stanton’s local strategy: data and citizen participation
Russ Stanton is one of my favorite people. Imagine the stereotype of a reserved, slightly stuffy big-city editor and that's not Russ.The editor of the Los Angeles Times for the last 20 months, Stanton is uncommonly down to earth and available. But the main reason I like him is his public honesty. Stanton's default response is to tell the truth — something that doesn't come easily to most executives struggling to keep their enterprise alive. Asked earlier this year how many news staffers could be sustained if the Times went Web only, Stanton could have been forgiven for taking a……
Richard Reeves: Look to history for health-care direction
The State Journal-Register ran an op-ed by Senior Fellow Richard Reeves on health care reform. "Socialism or not, history is pushing health-care reform into law. It will not be 100 percent of what President Barack Obama wanted. It will be a compromise bill with some Republican input – and it will be added to and expanded over the years," Reeves wrote…….
Business book reviews
The Dallas Morning News ran a review of "The Essential Bennis" by Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis. The review stated that Bennis has compiled his insights of more than 50 years into one volume, including what he identifies as four core competencies gifted leaders have in abundance: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others in a shared vision, a distinctive voice, and integrity…….
Mike Bloomberg Owns This Town
New York Magazine noted that Senior Fellow Richard Reeves was one of the writers who helped the magazine create its list of the most powerful people in New York. These writers "constructed not just a numerical ranking of the city's movers and shakers but a vivid tapestry of how those players – many of them unelected and obscure — interacted to shape public life in New York," the story stated…….
Essay and a Woman’s Nation
I have just returned from the Los Angeles launch of A Woman's Nation –an ambitious project and a unique report on the status of American women which includes an essay I co authored with Stacy Smith, Ph.D. and Amy Granados entitled Sexy Socialization: Today's Media and the Next Generation of Women" . The Womens' Nation initiative is produced by California First Lady Maria Shriver with partners including the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the CCLP and the multifaceted report –including a comprehensive national poll–is known as, The Shriver Report…….
CCLP essay published in Shriver Report reveals gender bias in media
Fellows from the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy have authored an essay in a report released October 15 by award-winning broadcast journalist and author Maria Shriver. Shriver is working in partnership with CCLP and the Center for American Progress on an ambitious research project examining how women's changing roles are affecting government, businesses, faith communities and the media. Findings are being released in The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything. It "outlines how these institutions rely on outdated models of who works and who cares for our families, and examines how all these parts of the culture have……
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan inducted into American Academy
Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor, Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership, and Director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy at the University of Southern California, is being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 229th class of new fellows in Boston on Saturday, October 10. The program "celebrates pioneering research and scholarship, artistic achievement, and exemplary service to society." "The Induction ceremony celebrates the Academy's mission and the accomplishments of its newly elected members," said Chief Executive Officer Leslie Berlowitz. "Through three centuries of service, the Academy and its Fellows have been dedicated to intellectual leadership and……
FTC overhauls regs on advertiser-blogger relationships
For the first time since 1980, the Federal Trade Commission amended its regulations to ensure celebrities or anyone promoting a product online fully disclose the results a consumer can expect to find. If violated, bloggers face an $11,000 fine per infraction. You can read the article on PaidContent.org here…….
Study finds media fell short on economic reporting
A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that journalists largely missed the story on the financial hardships of ordinary people during the economic crisis that began last fall. The media content analysis also showed that when the stock market rebounded, news coverage notably subsided. You can read about the Pew Center's new study on the the New York Times' website here…….