Leading one of the world’s most influential news outlets offers unique insight into the modern age of reporting. Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, has witnessed radical changes sweeping the journalism and media industries. Observing these disruptions, her new book Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is delighted to welcome Jonathan F. Fanton as the Center’s newest Senior Fellow. During his remarkable career in education and philanthropy, Dr. Fanton has served as the President of The New School for Social Research in New York City, President of The John D. and…
The Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to announce that James and Deborah Fallows are joining the Center as Senior Fellows. One of America’s leading reporters, James Fallows is currently a national correspondent for The Atlantic. Deborah is an author and linguist. They spent five years crisscrossing America in a small…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to welcome political speechwriter and strategist Dan Schwerin as its newest Senior Fellow. Schwerin was the principal collaborator on Hillary Clinton’s two most recent bestselling memoirs, Hard Choices (2014) and What Happened (2017) and served as the Director of Speechwriting for Hillary Clinton’s…
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 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…
Journalists, politicians and voters all rely on polls — and often, they’re seen as objective measures, impervious to the partisan divide. But what steps go into gathering the data, and what factors can affect the results? These are the questions that four panelists attempted to answer on Sept. 25 in “Polling: art, science or guesswork?”…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is delighted to welcome Craig Calhoun as its newest Senior Fellow. A former Director of the London School of Economics and the first President of the Berggruen Institute, Calhoun joins a cohort of CCLP senior fellows who are at the forefront of journalism, public diplomacy,…
When we consider the history of women in journalism – we are confronted with many contradictions. For more than a century, countless women have made significant contributions to the profession, and society, through their reporting. From Margaret Fuller, the first female American foreign correspondent, to Ida B. Wells, one of the nation’s most influential…
University Professor Geoffrey Cowan and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) are thrilled to announce the names of the three talented Annenberg graduate students that will serve as 2018-2019 Cowan Scholars. Isabella (Bella) Marten, Justine Leblanc, and Jessica (Jesse) Ryan were selected from a competitive pool of incoming Annenberg students for…