New York Times bestselling author Jill Leovy, who pioneered an important form of journalism by creating ‘The Homicide Report’ for the Los Angeles Times, has joined the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership & Policy as a Senior Fellow. “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America” (Speigel&Grau/Random House 2015) was a National Book Critics…
In August, digital media innovator and executive Matthew Graham joined the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) as a Senior Fellow. Mr. Graham spent the past year at the USC Annenberg School working with dean Willow Bay to transform the school’s state of the art Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center into a…
By: Jung-Hwa “Judy” Kang “The threat today is remarkably different from what we were facing when the Soviet Union existed,” described Scott Rauland, Senior State Department Advisor at the U.S. Helsinki Commission, in his presentation “From Soviet Propaganda to the ‘Firehose of Russian Falsehood” at the monthly CCLP Washington D.C. forum. His lecture focused on…
In April, CCLP fellow Irshad Manji convened a workshop at the USC Annenberg School that discussed moral courage, community engagement, and different communication styles. The workshop, attended by about 20 USC students, was structured as an interactive and collaborative follow-up to the event last November sponsored by Visions and Voices and organized by CCLP and…
This past February, CCLP Director of Washington Programs Adam Clayton Powell III presented the Center’s Internet of Things (IoT) emergency response initiative at the 2017 National Governors Association (NGA) winter session in Washington, D.C. The presentation, which focused on cyber-security threats, discussed the multidisciplinary IoT program that CCLP announced last year in Washington, D.C. and on…
The Center on Communication Leadership & Policy welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff as a new senior fellow. During his 28 year career at the New York Times, Markoff was widely regarded as one of the nation’s best technology reporters. He retired from the Times last December and now serves as a journalist in residence…
Renowned political journalist and author Todd S. Purdum will become a senior fellow of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. Purdum is a senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity…
On March 7, CCLP brought together over 200 students, staff, and faculty in a captivating conversation about journalism, politics, and civic engagement. That night, in the lobby of USC’s Wallis Annenberg Hall, CCLP, in collaboration with the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, brought together a number of media heavyweights from across the ideological spectrum…
Last week, with support from CCLP and Professor Geoffrey Cowan, a team of USC Annenberg students went to our nation’s capital for the inauguration of the 45th President and the Women’s March. The group of six students, led by professor Robert Hernandez, partnered with The New York Times Daily 360 team to produce 360 video…