Nicco Mele named Wallis Annenberg Chair

Nicco Mele, author, social media pioneer and digital strategist, has been named the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism, the USC Annenberg School of Journalism announced today. Mele is a senior fellow for the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) and formerly was senior vice president and deputy publisher of the Los Angeles…

In the News: Glickman discusses his role as “designated survivor” of the State of the Union address

Mic.com spoke to CCLP senior fellow Dan Glickman about his role as President Bill Clinton’s handpicked “designated survivor” of the State of the Union address in 1997, when he was Secretary of Agriculture. “Here I was just a few minutes earlier, almost the most powerful person in the country, and now I couldn’t even get…

In the News: Forbes cites Cowan as organizer of 1994 Internet summit

Gil Press of Forbes magazine cited CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan as one of the organizers of the 1994 Superhighway Summit, the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information Superhighway and its implications.”…

Project on Presidential Primaries: Roadmap to Nomination 2016

CCLP has launched Project on Presidential Primaries: Roadmap to Nomination 2016, a crowd-sourced Google Doc detailing the delegate selection rules for the 2016 primaries and caucuses by state, party, type, voter participation, election dates, and more. Most Americans — even candidates and party insiders — have little knowledge about how delegates are chosen in presidential caucuses and…