Julia Turner to join USC Annenberg as Senior Fellow

Julia Turner, Senior Vice President for Content Business Strategy at the Los Angeles Times, will join the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) as a Senior Fellow, focusing on ways to develop new, sustainable business models to preserve and protect journalism and strengthen community and democracy, particularly in Southern California. Before joining…

Former NPR President John Lansing Joins CCLP

John Lansing, President of NPR, will join the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) in March as a Senior Fellow. “With his background as the President of the Scripps Networks, overseeing U.S. International Broadcasting as the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, and then running National Public Radio, Lansing brings…

Cowan Pens Politico Article Calling for Primary Reform

In a new article for Politico Magazine, CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan compares the 2024 primary cycle, where both major parties have all but selected their presidential nominees by the end of January, to the 1968 primary cycle, where major candidate Sen. Robert Kennedy did not even declare until March 16. Cowan writes, “At the very…