Scott Bates joins CCLP as Election Cybersecurity Fellow

CCLP is pleased to welcome former US election official Scott Bates as a new Election Cybersecurity Fellow. Bates joins an exceptional team at CCLP working to protect campaigns and elections from cybersecurity threats. The Election Cybersecurity Initiative (ECI), led by Executive Director Adam Clayton Powell III, informs and trains election officials around the United States…

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…

Junior Fellow Owen Foster Writes Article on News Media Ecosystems

Working with Senior Fellow Morley Winograd, Foster conducted novel analysis on a set of Pew Research data to draw conclusions about how social media news ecosystems relate to political ideology in the United States. The article appeared in a series on how younger voters will impact elections, and is also a part of the FixGov…

Isaac Blacksin to become CCLP Research Fellow

Isaac Blacksin, a media theorist and an ethnographer of military conflict, has spent time in war-zones from Afghanistan to Ukraine. His writing appears in various scholarly and popular venues, including Media, War & Conflict, Applied Journalism and Media Studies, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, boundary 2, Viewpoint Magazine, Kyoto Journal, and Worlding Asia. Isaac’s first…

CCLP Welcomes David Hume Kennerly as a Senior Fellow

CCLP is honored to welcome David Hume Kennerly to the Center as a Senior Fellow. Kennerly brings a wealth of unique experiences and knowledge to the Center. Kennerly has had a distinguished career as a “political photographer” including coverage of the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and 11 United States Presidents. Kennerly’s photos have appeared…

Professor Jonathan Aronson Joins CCLP as a Faculty Fellow

The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to welcome Jonathan Aronson as its newest faculty fellow. Aronson is a professor at USC Annenberg and the Department of Political Science & International Relations at USC Dornsife. He received his training at Harvard and Stanford before joining USC’s School of International Relations…

Anna Malaika Tubbs joins CCLP as a Senior Fellow

The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is thrilled to welcome intersectional scholar and best-selling author Anna Malaika Tubbs as its newest Senior Fellow. Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs holds a Ph.D in Sociology and Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Anthropology from Stanford…