Marty Kaplan, founding director of the Norman Lear Center and the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, has joined CCLP as a Faculty Fellow.
Kaplan was associate dean of the USC Annenberg School and directs the School’s Norman Lear Center, whose mission is to study and shape the impact of media and entertainment on society. His Lear Center research includes the political coverage on U.S. local TV news broadcasts; the effects on audiences of public health messages in entertainment storylines; the use of narrative for science communication; and the impact on democracy of the attention economy.
In his prior work he served as chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, as executive assistant to the U.S. Commissioner of Education, Ernest L. Boyer, and worked at Walt Disney Studios as vice president of production for live-action feature films, and as a writer-producer under exclusive contract.
Read more about Kaplan here.