CCLP Advisory Board Member and Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt will be honored by The Constitution Project at their 7th Annual Constitutional Gala on April 24th in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan legal watchdog group will celebrate Pruitt's leadership in standing up against government intimidation of the media. Tickets to the Gala are available for purchase at The Constitution Project's website. The Constitutional Champion Award honors Pruitt's commitment to fighting for the constitutional principles of the First Amendment. When the Department of Justice secretly collected phone records for editors at The Associated Press in May 2013, Pruitt called it a "massive……
Month: March 2014
Morley Winograd quoted in CNN Money
CNN Money: Senior fellow Morley Winograd is quoted in the article, "Americans still worried about their financial future". He says, "Millennials are a very economically stressed generation, and that stress will last for their lifetime."……
Latonero explains role of big data in fight against trafficking at NYU summit co-sponsored by White House
Research director Mark Latonero gave a presentation today at The Social, Cultural, & Ethical Dimensions of "Big Data", speaking about his research at CCLP on technology and human trafficking. Hosted by The Data & Society Research Institute in partnership with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and New York University's Information Law Institute, the event brought together leaders from government, academia, and industry as part of the Obama Administration's efforts to better understand the implications of big data for privacy and public policy. Latonero discussed how networked technologies like chat rooms, online classified ads, and social……
Top sports journalists share career insights at CCLP forum on Women & Communication Leadership
This article was written by CCLP intern Faith Jessie, a USC Annenberg senior majoring in Public Relations, and CCLP web editor Elizabeth Krane. Women are still fighting to break into sports journalism, an industry that has historically been dominated by men. According to a study done by the Women's Media Center, 90% of sports editors are male. The 2012 Associated Press Sports Editors Racial and Gender Report Card gave an F grade for gender representation in sports columnists and editors. But as NFL Network host Lindsay Rhodes pointed out, "We're all proof that if you work hard and you're persistent,……
Dan Glickman on TTIP and the California Drought
APCO Forum: Senior fellow Dan Glickman is featured in a video interview by APCO on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the impact of the California drought…….
Technologies under development by USC computer scientists could help in the fight against underage sex trafficking in the United States.
USC Viterbi features Mark Latonero in its article, "Technologies under development by USC computer scientists could help in the fight against underage sex trafficking in the United States"…….
Cell phones combat agricultural pests in Asia
SINGAPORE – Ordinary cell phones have emerged as a tool to combat agricultural pests. Using the mPest Insect Sound Android mobile application, farmers take their cell phones into the field to pick up sounds of insects on their land. The sounds are analyzed to detect which insects are present; if any pests are there, farmers can use highly targeted methods to combat insects that are reducing crop yields. Because the technology is entirely based on audio, farmers can use it at night, when visual detection of insect pests is difficult. Use of mPest by individual farmers is just one feature……
Public Diplomacy and Press Freedom
The Huffington Post: Faculty fellow Philip Seib wrote a column on why the US should increase efforts to protect press freedom around the world…….
Lecture focuses on objectivity in news
The Daily Helmsman published an article about senior fellow Geneva Overholser's lecture at the University of Memphis' 3rd annual Norm Brewer First Amendment Lecture Series…….