In the two years that have elapsed since the election of President Donald Trump, national political discourse has centered on the divisions in American society — particularly the apparent split between urban, coastal progressives and inland, rural conservatives. But over the course of five years, traveling to numerous towns across the United States, authors James…
The Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is delighted to announce that Nancy Gibbs, one of the nation’s leading writers and editors, will be the new co-chair of CCLP’s advisory board. She succeeds Norman Pearlstine, who is now the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, and joins Mickey Kantor, CCLP’s other co-chair….
The Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy is pleased to welcome USC Professor Christina Bellantoni, Director of the Annenberg Media Center, as its newest Faculty Fellow. Before joining USC, Professor Bellantoni was the assistant managing editor for politics at the Los Angeles Times where she spearheaded the expansion of the California politics team and…
More than 800 USC students and faculty packed into Wallis Annenberg Hall last Monday night for a panel and viewing of the first presidential debate, an event put on by The Annenberg Center and the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. For a full recap with more photos and social media posts from students, check…
This July, Geoffrey Cowan and the team at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) arranged for a small, select group of USC student journalists to attend and report from both the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. The trip was organized in partnership…
CCLP Director Geoff Cowan appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, April 25. He discussed the importance of unbound delegates in the 2016 presidential nomination process as well as the impact of his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. Watch a video of the discussion on MSNBC’s…
WASHINGTON — Amanda Bennett was sworn in this morning as the new Director of the Voice of America, and she promised change: “We do have to change. We must change. We need to change in a big way,” she said, in large part to address the “vast shift in the way people around the world…
On March 30, 2016, CCLP published an article on Medium.com entitled “Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump — here’s proof.” CCLP Associate Director Ev Boyle and researchers Jane Yi, Rebecca Mulqueen, and Skye Featherstone set out to answer two questions: Just how much coverage are the top online news outlets devoting to Trump?…
USC News wrote about CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan’s new project, the Face of Science. The project is a new three-year initiative from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that will conduct studies that examine public attitudes toward scientific research and determine how scientists and the media can increase public understanding of, and trust in, scientific information….
The USC student newspaper, The Daily Trojan, covered the Master’s in Public Diplomacy/CCLP trip to Washington, DC….