Roberto Suro, professor and faculty fellow, will be a featured speaker at the Hispanicize 2011 conference, according to the Digital Journal. Mom Bloggers Club founder Jennifer James began the conference to highlight latinos making a difference in America, and includes actors, bloggers, and journalists on the panels…….Continue Reading Suro in Digital Journal – Hispanicize 2011
Year: 2011
Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 2
Presidential biographer and CCLP Senior Fellow Richard Reeves was cited in an article on the New York Times on the upcoming mini-series on the Reelz Channel, The Kennedys. Though the piece is presented as representing true happenings within the White House, Reeves contests some of the events depicted are completely false…….Continue Reading Reeves in NYT – Kennedys mini-series – 2
Cowan opens national forum on civics education
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan provided opening remarks to the Civic Innovators Forum for Civics Learning at the National Press Club on Wednesday, March 30. The program, which also included presentations by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson, brought together top policymakers, scholars, journalists and philanthropists to explore ways to bolster civics education in schools across the country…….Continue Reading Cowan opens national forum on civics education
Leading Journalism Association Spotlights CCLP Research on Funding the News
CCLP’s groundbreaking report, Public Policy and Funding the News, continues to garner media hits and attention of experts in journalism. On March 28th, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication cited the CCLP study in their call for Congress to maintain federal funding of public broadcasting. As research also points out, commercial media enterprises have —- for most of this country’s history —- received federal assistance in the form of discounted postal subsidies and tax breaks, for instance. Yet, Americans trust public media more for relevant, complete news. A recent Roper Poll listed PBS as the nation’s most-trusted institution…….Continue Reading Leading Journalism Association Spotlights CCLP Research on Funding the News
15 Ways to Generate Revenue for a Community News Web Site
My co-author María J. Vázquez and I recently finished writing a case study on a hyperlocal community news site in Long Beach California, the Long Beach Post. As with so many of these entrepreneurial sites, the founders were doing a great job of journalism and technology. The challenge was on the business and sales side. How do you effectively generate revenues to sustain the enterprise? Here are 15 suggestions to consider if you are building a community news web business, or any web content business for that matter. 1. Webinar. Find a topic of interest to an audience and a……Continue Reading 15 Ways to Generate Revenue for a Community News Web Site
How America Doubled Its Brainpower
This is your basic "bait and switch" column. I am going to begin by talking about the fanciful story that strong and talented women, beginning with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and National Security staffer Samantha Power, have taken over the government and pushed the president of the United States, NATO, the United Nations and the Arab League into trying to overthrow the Libyan gorilla Gadhafi. That titan of tubby masculinity, Rush Limbaugh, has said this is because the president, his generals and all male advisers are "the new castrati … sissies!" Therefore, the women of……Continue Reading How America Doubled Its Brainpower
Bennis in Fast Company – Measuring as a Leader
In an article on Fast Company, the work of leadership expert and CCLP Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis is broken down by blogger Mark Goulston to create a cheat sheet of the best leadership practices…….Continue Reading Bennis in Fast Company – Measuring as a Leader
Smith on Annenberg Radio News – Women in media
Faculty Fellow Stacy L. Smith was interviewed on USC's own Annenberg Radio News. In conjunction with International Women's Day, Smith was interviewed about the role of women in the media, and how the lack of females behind the lens in Hollywood is having negative effects on young women growing in America today…….Continue Reading Smith on Annenberg Radio News – Women in media
Cowan in Chicago Tribune – Darrow
CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan was cited in an article in the Chicago Tribune for his work The People v. Clarence Darrow. Darrow was honored in Chicago in early March on the anniversary of his death…….Continue Reading Cowan in Chicago Tribune – Darrow
Schell in CNN – Middle East Uprising
Amidst the riots in Libya, many fear that China will follow in the steps of many middle eastern countries and begin taking to the streets in violent protest. Not so, says Senior Fellow Orville Schell. "I think most Chinese do feel that things are going pretty well in China, economically at least to date," said Schell in CNN. "Obviously there are some dissatisfied elements, but I don't think that there's the same level of cause for a populist uprising."……Continue Reading Schell in CNN – Middle East Uprising