Year: 2015

This article by CCLP senior fellow Matthew Dowd was originally published by ABC News. The storyline by many in the media goes as follows: the GOP is in dire straits, they are in the midst of tearing themselves apart by a civil war, they have a disorganized field of candidates, they are about to lose…Continue Reading Do Dems Have Much More to Lose in This Election Than the GOP?

CCLP Senior Research Fellow Mark Latonero has been named a Visiting Scholar at NYU‘s Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication….Continue Reading Senior Research Fellow Latonero named NYU Visiting Scholar

WASHINGTON – John Lansing, the new CEO and Director of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, pulled no punches as he discussed a proposed reorganization of America’s international broadcasting: he said it’s a mistake. Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on options for changing the structure of U.S. government broadcasting, Lansing said one idea in particular…Continue Reading BBG CEO opposes plan to restructure US international broadcasting

At the second installment of the panel series Media & Society, Michelle Turner, George Sanchez, Camille Grear Rich, and Mark Lloyd discussed how higher education is failing African Americans and Latinos. Watch the full session here. The series is presented by the Institute for Development and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA) and the Center on Communication Leadership…Continue Reading Watch: Panel discusses higher ed failing blacks and Latinos

Statement by Adam Clayton Powell III at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, October 8, 2015: Mr. Chairman, Governors, Director Lansing. My name is Adam Clayton Powell III, and I am President of the Public Diplomacy Council and a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California. But this morning I speak as an individual; the…Continue Reading Democracy is not just another ideology; freedom is not just another point of view

“Too often when we talk about immigration we talk with people who already agree with us,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, immigration activist, and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas, who has traveled around the country on a speaking tour in promotion of his films Documented and White People. “I talked to many young white students who seemed…Continue Reading Immigration activist and filmmaker urges USC students to talk to those they don’t agree with

Sports can induce dialogue between countries that do not otherwise talk and serve as a perfect medium for international exchange as well as a forum to confront racism and gender violence, according to USC’s director of public diplomacy Nick Cull. “Sport can bring people together,” said Cull, speaking before CCLP senior fellow Derek Shearer’s diplomacy…Continue Reading Sports can encourage dialogue between antagonistic countries, says USC public diplomacy professor

WASHINGTON — John Lansing, the new Chief Executive Officer and Director of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, yesterday outlined strategies he said he is pursuing to move BBG forward. Speaking at a public meeting of the BBG Board of Governors, Lansing listed five priorities: 1. Move aggressively to shift toward digital distribution. Lansing said…Continue Reading New US international broadcasting CEO outlines his priorities