L to R: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, CCLP Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan, Carolyn De La PenaPhoto Credit: California Council for the Humanities"You want to do something good for democracy?" asked Tom Hollihan, Ph.D., USC Annenberg professor and CCLP faculty fellow. "Subscribe to a newspaper!" he told the audience at the California Council for the Humanities' Searching for Democracy Forum, a symposium co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Hollihan's suggestion that a strong democracy requires a vibrant news media was just one of many views on democracy and civic discourse offered by participants at the March 4th……
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CCLP partners with California Council for the Humanities to present forum on Democracy & Civic Discourse
CCLP has partnered with the California Council for the Humanities and organizations across California to present a major conference on Democracy and Political Discourse. Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan is a featured panelist in the program and CCLP research staff will join a statewide effort to advance civic conversation. The March 4th event at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy kicks off Searching for Democracy–a two-year CCH initiative designed to foster public discourse on the meaning of democracy through a series of local, regional and statewide activities. The topics of civic discourse and democracy take center stage at the……
Reeves on KPCC – Tuscon
Richard Reeves, CCLP Senior Fellow, was interviewed on 89.3 KPCC after the tragic shooting death in Tuscon, AZ. Reeves' storied past a political journalist allowed for him to bring weight to the conversation questioning the rancorous atmosphere of political discourse that has blamed following the events earlier this month. Full audio of the interview can be heard here…….
Hollihan in LAT – Tuscon shootings
Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan was cited in an article in the Los Angeles Times on the fatal shootings in Tuscon, AZ that has killed 9 people and critcally wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. According to Hollihan, people on the political fringe "get affected by a kind of toxic political culture that makes them angry and paranoid that their government is being taken away."……
Parks mentioned in OJR article on Alhambra Project
The Alhambra Project, led by Faculty Fellow Michael Parks has officially launched online at www.alhambrasource.org. Parks began this project with support from the Annenberg Foundation in order to investigate how local news coverage could better serve communities with low levels of civic engagement. An article about this project can be read at The Online Journalism Review…….