U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in conversation with author and journalist Ellis Cose, led students in a conversation on civic engagement, transcending polarization, and the importance of young people’s involvement in addressing the challenges facing democracy today. The virtual forum was presented by Renewing American Democracy, a project of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg…
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Support Democracy: Subscribe to a Newspaper, Says Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan at CCLP Democracy Forum
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……
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……
Schell in New Yorker – Egypt
Senior Fellow Orville Schell's book Mandate of Heaven was cited in an article in The New Yorker for the strong parallels present in the China uprising in Tienanmen Square in 1989 and the recent civil riots taking place in Egypt. "It was bracing to be reminded in vivid, emotional detail of just how murderous the People's Liberation Army was when ordered to clear the protest," says author of the article Steve Coll. "The students and the urban workers who had persuaded themselves that they were near victory were also stunned by the Army's indiscriminate, decisive violence. They seemed to expect……
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…….