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…Continue Reading A full house at Wallis Annenberg Hall for the first presidential debate
Dr. Diane Winston, USC professor and the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, has been named a faculty fellow of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. As a faculty fellow at the Annenberg Center, Winston will focus on how and where…Continue Reading Religion and Media Scholar Diane Winston named Annenberg Center Faculty Fellow
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…Continue Reading CCLP and USC Annenberg Students at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions
Sandy Banks, former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and journalism professor at Cal State Northridge, has been named a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. As a senior fellow of CCLP, Banks will focus on journalism innovation in areas including homelessness, policing and criminal…Continue Reading Longtime L.A. Times Columist Sandy Banks Named CCLP Senior Fellow
CCLP Senior Research Fellow Mark Latonero published a piece in this week’s Foreign Affairs about recent investments from the U.S. State Department and others in mobile apps focused on the refugee crisis – and what impact we can reasonably expect from such initiatives. Latonero, who also leads the Data and Human Rights program at the Data & Society…Continue Reading CCLP Fellow Mark Latonero Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs: “An App to Save Syria’s Lost Generation?”
WASHINGTON — Amanda Bennett, the new Director of the Voice of America, was the featured speaker at this month’s CCLP lunch forum just two weeks after she was sworn in. She introduced herself by saying she was not a diplomat, but she practices public diplomacy. “I’m all journalist and no diplomat,” said Bennett, but she added,…Continue Reading New VOA Director: “Great journalism is great public diplomacy”
CCLP Senior Fellow Nicco Mele was recently named the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mele is currently serves as the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California and is the former Senior Vice President and Deputy…Continue Reading CCLP Senior Fellow Nicco Mele named director of Shorenstein Center
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…Continue Reading In the News: Geoff Cowan talks presidential primaries on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Cowan will be interviewed on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal call-in program this Sunday, April 24th, at 8:30am ET. He will be discussing the history of presidential primaries and the 2016 election in the context of his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. Watch a video of the interview…Continue Reading Watch CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan on C-SPAN this Sunday, April 24th at 8:30am ET
Guest speakers from diverse fields including politics, international diplomacy and medicine presented at the Pacific Council on International Policy’s Spring Conference on April 15. The event was co-hosted by the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and provided an opportunity for PCIP members to learn more about…Continue Reading Speakers discuss election, economics at international policy conference