This article by CCLP Senior Research Fellow Mark Latonero was originally published on Trust.org. While many of us might feel we cannot live without the Internet or our cell phones, for refugees access to digital technologies can be a matter of life or death. Numerous media reports have highlighted how smartphones areessential and vital for…
Year: 2015
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan to conclude service at Sunnylands in June 2016
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 — Geoffrey Cowan, the president of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, announced today that after six years as the organization’s founding president he will be leaving the historic, high-level retreat center that he helped to transform into the “Camp David of the West.” The former dean of the University of…
U.S. Food Diplomacy Wins Fans at Milan World’s Fair
WASHINGTON – American use of food diplomacy as a diplomatic and commercial tool was the topic of this month’s CCLP Communication Leadership lunch forum here, and the focus was on the success of the U.S. pavilion at this year’s world’s fair in Milan. America was the unquestioned hit of fair, according to Beatrice Camp, Expo…
In the News: Vasily Gatov quoted in Foreign Policy article
CCLP visiting fellow Vasily Gatov was quoted in this Foreign Policy article about Russian media. Also see: http://shorensteincenter.org/exporting-the-first-amendment-david-ensor/…
New York Times’ Andy Rosenthal joins CCLP advisory board
LOS ANGELES, November 24, 2015 — Journalist and Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal, 59, has been named a member of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy’s Advisory Board, CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. “I am delighted to join this group dedicated to advancing, modernizing and promoting…
BBG Creates Office of Internet Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. – John Lansing, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), said this morning that BBG has created an Office of Internet Freedom to promote free and open access to online information. The new office will have an initial budget of $14 million, according to Lansing, and will have…
Project on Presidential Primaries: Roadmap to Nomination 2016
CCLP has launched Project on Presidential Primaries: Roadmap to Nomination 2016, a crowd-sourced Google Doc detailing the delegate selection rules for the 2016 primaries and caucuses by state, party, type, voter participation, election dates, and more. Most Americans — even candidates and party insiders — have little knowledge about how delegates are chosen in presidential caucuses and…
Watch: Nieuwwij interviews Irshad Manji
Dutch online channel Nieuwwij interviewed CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji. Four years after the failed attempt of Sharia4Belgium to silence her during a debate in Amsterdam, author Irshad Manji returns to The Netherlands. In the first part of this exclusive interview she looks back on the experience while at the same time lecturing Geert Wilders on…
In the News: The Observant interviews Irshad Manji
The Observant, the newspaper of Maastricht University in The Netherlands, interviewed CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji just before she delivered the 2015 Tans Lecture. “Engage Wilders’ supporters with questions that will make them think” Tans Lecture 2015 by well-known critic of traditional mainstream Islam MAASTRICHT. “Moral courage means doing the right thing in the face…
NYT Book Review: ‘Islam and the Future of Tolerance’ and ‘Not in God’s Name’
This book review by CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji was originally published in The New York Times. Civilization has a civility problem. This I learned long before Donald Trump. In 2005, the prominent “new atheist” Richard Dawkins shouted his disapproval at me — from the audience — during my TED talk at Oxford University. More…