Reuters quoted Faculty Fellow Christopher Smith about celebrities' use of social media, and the best and worst cases of celebrities trying to build their brands through social networks…….
Month: July 2011
Seib on WBEZ – Alhurra
Faculty Fellow Phil Seib was interviewed with WBEZ on the 2008 report on Alhurra, the Arab news channel and how their reporting has effected the efforts of the Arab Spring in the MIddle East. [LISTEN]……
Rachlis in Investigative Fund – Bob Moser
American Prospect editor and senior fellow Kit Rachlis was cited in an article on Investigative Fund regarding the hiring of celebrated journalist and author Bob Moser as the executive editor of the Prospect…….
Bennis in BNET – Team Leadership
Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis' 15 Rules for Great Groups was cited in a leadership article on the CBS Interactive Business Network, entitled "Making a Team Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts."……
Reeves in NewsWorks – Presidential Illnesses
"As candidate and president," wrote Senior Fellow Richard Reeves, "Kennedy concealed his low energy level, radiating health and good humor, though he usually spent more than half of most days in bed." Reeves' words were cited in an article on NewsWorks, which examined the illnesses of presidental candidates from the past and present…….
Winograd in Forbes – Millennial migration to 'burbs
Senior Fellow Morley Winograd and his co-author, Mike Hais, were quoted in a recent article in Forbes, "Why America's Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs." Winograd and Hais state that the reason more Millennials are abandoning the urban for the suburban lifestyle is due to the rising housing costs of owning property in cities…….
The Money Melodrama in Washington
Stating the obvious: Politicians know politics; that's their business. Business is not their business, and any discussion about American presidents and economics has to begin with this discouraging word: American politicians, with a very small number of exceptions, don't know anything about economics. In Washington, during the deficit debates for the past few weeks, politicians are guessing–as I think most economists and pundits are–and they seize on almost any deficit idea that sounds good at the time. It has been ever thus: A mainstream American conservative, Richard Nixon, blurts out that we are all Keynesians now, and a mainstream American……
Media executives, policymakers and scholars assess public media’s future
Public broadcasting executives, journalists, policymakers, and others met in USC's Washington, DC office on Monday, July 25 to discuss growing threats to public broadcasting stations across the US. The program featured opening remarks by Geoffrey Cowan, director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and was organized by Adam Clayton Powell III, CCLP's senior fellow who has served in top positions at several commercial and public news organizations. USC Annenberg's Dean Ernest J. Wilson III also participated in the forum. Tom Thomas, Co-CEO of Station Resource Group, observed that while public broadcasters have always had aspirations that exceeded available……
Hollihan in NYT – The Closer
The New York Times quoted Senior Fellow Thomas Hollihan about the political impact of City Council President Eric Garcetti playing a fictional mayor on the TV series "The Closer."……
PBS loses a 4th station; public television local news commitment questioned
WASHINGTON — The Public Broadcasting System has been abandoned by a fourth station, WIPR-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As previously reported, KCET-TV in Los Angeles dropped its PBS programming in January of this year. Two public television stations in Florida followed suit in early July. WIPR canceled its PBS affiliation after an unsuccessful year-long negotiation over the amount the station would pay for programming, according to an article in Current magazine. That was exactly the same pattern as in Los Angeles, according to KCET President and General Manager Al Jerome in an interview late last week with CCLP. In……