The First Amendment Center, in response to the FTC's recommendations for aiding journalism, cited research conducted by CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan and Senior Fellow David Westphal. The article discusses the Cowan/Westphal report noting that the government has played a role in supporting journalism since the country's founding…….
Day: July 27, 2010
Tom Hollihan in LA Biz Journal
Tom Hollihan, Faculty Fellow, was quoted by the Los Angeles Business Journal on the role of electronic billboards as a public benefit. The whole article can be read in the Los Angeles Business Journal…….
Reeves on Obama
"It seems impossible to me that the president can't get to people anytime he wants to," said Senior Fellow Richard Reeves in a recent New York Times article on Obama's difficulty in reaching Shirley Sherrod, the Department of Agriculture official who was forced to resign based on an edited video clip that made it look as if she had discriminated against a white farmer…….
Phil Seib reviewing Kevin Starr
Phil Seib Faculty Fellow, reviewed the book Golden Gate by USC professor Kevin Starr in the Dallas Morning News, calling Starr the "greatest contemporary historian of California."……
Bennis previews upcoming memoir, Still Surprised
In this video from Jossey-Bass, Warren Bennis, CCLP Distinguished Fellow, discusses his upcoming memoir Still Surprised. He touches on his experiences "learning leadership," what he thinks readers should take away from the book, and what he believes will be his legacy…….
Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls
BELL, Calif. — This little city was a pleasant place to be last Sunday morning. There are nice gardens around small bungalows and four-family apartment buildings. Hundreds of kids in snappy soccer uniforms, their parents behind carrying coolers of food and drink, were headed for the perfectly groomed turf near City Hall. It's a very nice City Hall, red brick, with a park and community center next door, along with the restored house of James George Bell, the founder of the town in 1876. Of course it's changed a bit since then. More than 35,000 people live here now, 90……