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…Continue Reading Writers James and Deborah Fallows join CCLP as Senior Fellows
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…Continue Reading Political Speechwriter Dan Schwerin joins CCLP as a Senior Fellow
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…Continue Reading Senior Fellows Morley Winograd and Peter Hirshberg host “Localism: Building America from the Bottom Up”
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…Continue Reading CCLP Welcomes Director of the USC Annenberg Media Center Christina Bellantoni as a Faculty Fellow
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?”…Continue Reading Experts discuss the politics of polling at CCLP forum
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,…Continue Reading Craig Calhoun, Social Sciences Professor and Former Director of the London School of Economics, joins CCLP as a Senior Fellow
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…Continue Reading Media’s Gender Revolution
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…Continue Reading Geoffrey Cowan welcomes the 2018-2019 cohort of Cowan Scholars
CCLP is pleased to welcome Sylvester Monroe as a Senior Fellow and as a new member of the USC Annenberg community. For the past three years, Monroe served as an Assistant Foreign Editor at The Washington Post in charge of reporting from Europe and South Asia. As a Senior Fellow, he will focus on news and…Continue Reading Veteran journalist and best-selling author Sylvester Monroe to join CCLP as a Senior Fellow
Young people are taking over the news and the nation’s politics. From the wave of young women now running for office or contributing to campaigns to the organization of March for Our Lives following the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in February, younger generations of American citizens are making waves at polling…Continue Reading Millennials and the Future of American Democracy: CCLP Tackles Political Localism in April Panel