Category: In the News

Study cuts Medicare payments to California hospitals

Senior Fellow, David Westphal writes about critical cuts to the Medicare system. The following is an excerpt, read the article in full here. Already reeling from big cutbacks in Medicare funding, California hospitals would lose another 3-4 percent of their federal reimbursement under a new analysis ordered up by Congress. Continued… var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Study cuts Medicare payments to California hospitals

Research Director Mark Latonero Discusses Human Trafficking at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

CCLP Research Director Mark Latonero was recently featured in The Seattle Times regarding a technology and human trafficking panel he spoke on at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2012. Latonero: "Surprisingly, law enforcement are not equipped with the types of advanced technologies which would really help in gathering evidence and investigating crime." Latonero is currently working with the Information Sciences Institute to develop tools for help law enforcement combat human trafficking. For the full story, please click here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Research Director Mark Latonero Discusses Human Trafficking at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

Technology To Fight Human Trafficking: Microsoft Awards Research Grants

CCLP research director Mark Latonero interviewed by NPR Seattle's KUOW News about the recent Microsoft grant allocated to research efforts dedicated to quell the ever rising problem of "Human Trafficking Online." Latonero: "It's my hope that some of the research which is being incubated, really by Microsoft with these grants, actually has that kind of potential in the future." To read the interview in full, please click here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Technology To Fight Human Trafficking: Microsoft Awards Research Grants

Microsoft Names Research Grant Recipients in Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking

CCLP post doc was amongst six research teams awarded $185,000 in funding from Microsoft to advance deeper understanding of the advertising and selling of children and the use of technology by "johns" in the child sex trade. Dr. Jennifer Musto, one of the Microsoft grantees, is part of CCLP's research team writing a follow-up report to be released in the fall. To read Microsoft's announcement in full please click here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Microsoft Names Research Grant Recipients in Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking

The Reagan Legacy and Democracy

Faculty Fellow, Philip Seib, blogs for the Huffington Post about the importance of the Reagan Legacy and Democracy. "If the United States is to make democracy the hallmark of its public diplomacy, Reagan's words, and those of the former policy makers at his library's conference, can provide a valuable foundation for those who seek to build a new political world." Read the blog here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading The Reagan Legacy and Democracy

Country for Sale

Senior Fellow Richard Reeves blogs for TruthDig about the sobering reality of the possibility of an impending takeaway election. Is this Country for Sale? Read the article in full here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Country for Sale

Curtin and Hughes’ digital outreach team grows

Senior fellow Jeremy Curtin and Karen Hughes' Digital Outreach Team grows into the operation described here. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");……Continue Reading Curtin and Hughes’ digital outreach team grows

Remembering Mike Wallace

CCLP Senior Fellow, Adam Clayton Powell III quoted in John Gizzi's article, How Mike Wallace nearly became White House press secretary. "And Mike was an admirer," said Adam Clayton Powell, III, both of whose parents were friends of Wallace and who himself got his start in journalism as an intern with the newsman at CBS. Powell recalled how Wallace later told The New York Times he regarded Nixon "with great respect. He was savvy, smart, hard-working." Read the article here. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");……Continue Reading Remembering Mike Wallace

Narda Zacchino Named Executive Director of the Daniel Pearl Foundation

CCLP Senior Fellow, Narda Zacchino, former LA Times vice president, has been named the new executive director of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. "We are thrilled that Narda has accepted our offer to become Executive Director," Daniel Pearl's parents and Foundation co-founders Judea and Ruth Pearl said in a release. "Her background as a journalist, editor and author, along with her extensive experience in working with nonprofits make her an ideal choice. More important, we believe that she understands and believes in our core message and will be able to articulate it to a broader audience." Read the announcement here. Tweet……Continue Reading Narda Zacchino Named Executive Director of the Daniel Pearl Foundation