Phil Seib, Faculty Fellow, has published an article in The Huffington Post entitled "Considering Water Diplomacy"…….
Month: June 2010
Obama's Afghanistan – Video used at WorldNews
In response to the change in leadership involving military forces in Afghanistan, WorldNews has created a library of videos on President Obama and his leadership during the war. The website features the CCLP's "Global Communication Forum on Obama's Afghanistan: The Media and the War" with Senior Fellow Cinny Kennard…….
Suro quoted in AZ Immigration article
Faculty Fellow Roberto Suro was interviewed by The Associated Press for an article about Arizona's immigration policies and claims of illegal immigrants being drug "mules"…….
Bennis quoted in BP article
Warren Bennis, Distinguished Fellow, was quoted in an article by The Washington Post regarding BP chief executive Tony Hayward and his retreat from the spotlight during the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico…….
Lerner Named Faculty Fellow at CCLP
University of Southern California Law Professor Jack Lerner has been named a Faculty Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP). Lerner, who directs the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, will be involved with research projects and public programs as well as provide guidance to law fellows at the Annenberg Center. He is the first fellow selected outside the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism…….
Bennis Offers Candid Assessment of Leadership & General McChrystal
Distinguished CCLP Fellow Warren Bennis was interviewed for The Washington Post's "On Leadership" section of the paper's website, offering his opinion on the forced resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal by President Barack Obama. In his piece, Bennis discusses the abrupt change of leadership in the war in Afghanistan and how it could effect the outcome of the ongoing nine year conflict. Gen. McChrystal was removed from his position leading all military forces in Operation Enduring Freedom on Wednesday after the publication of negative comments he and his aides made in an article in Rolling Stone magazine about the current Presidential……
Bennis On Leadership Create Jobs
Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis writes about the importance of leadership in passing the stimulus bill in the "On Leadership" section of The Washington Post…….
Senior Fellow Cinny Kennard Sworn in as Special Consultant for the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission recently appointed Senior Fellow Cinny Kennard as a Special Consultant to work on the team researching and preparing a report on the Future of Media & Information Needs of Communities in a Digital Age. According to the FCC, "the goal of the project is to help ensure that all Americans have access to vibrant, diverse sources of news and information that will enable them to enrich their families, communities and democracy." As traditional forms of news struggle to survive and new forms of media flourish, the research team will acquire extensive knowledge of the media world……
The Special Relationship Is Very Special
WASHINGTON — The 300th British soldier was killed in Afghanistan last week, which means that, proportionately, Great Britain is paying a higher price in manpower and money out there. That's 300 dead in a 10,000-troop commitment compared with the United States' 1,126 deaths with a commitment of more than 94,000 troops right now. The debate in London — "Why are we in Afghanistan?" — seems more heated over there, but the essentials of the arguments are about the same. The new British prime minister, David Cameron, marked the death of the Royal Marine in a place called Sangin by saying:……
‘Top Secret’ play and discussion series wraps in New York City
Produced by LA Theatre Works in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop and Affinity Collaborative Theatre, Leory Aarons and Geoffrey Cowan's Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, closed with rave reviews and an impressive model for using theater to explore and discuss the role of media in a democracy. The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy organized conversations focused on the tension between issues of national security and a free press that included journalists, scholars, jurists, and public policy leaders from partner organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Columbia Journalism Review, New York University, and others…….