One of the few print publications that saw an increase in readership and revenue this past year is now considering an online paid content business model. Currently, The Economist charges only for articles that are more than a year old and its online subscription covering that archival material costs about $90. You can read the article on PaidContent.org's website here…….Continue Reading Economist may charge for all online content
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CCLP welcomes new junior fellow, Monica Alba
Monica Alba has joined the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy as a junior fellow. Monica is an award-winning, honors graduate of the USC Annenberg School (Class of 2009). She earned her degree in broadcast journalism with minors in international relations and cinematic arts. She is the co-founder of the highly successful Social Issues Film Festival (SI DocFest), a high school film festival that requires students to produce short documentaries on social issues in the San Francisco Bay Area and awards $30,000 to students, schools and non-profits annually…….Continue Reading CCLP welcomes new junior fellow, Monica Alba
Another One for the Gipper
The New York Times mentioned Senior Fellow Richard Reeves in an article on former President Ronald Reagan. "On one side you have the stalwart Reagan haters … . On the other you have those journalists and academics – Richard Reeves, John Patrick Diggins, Sean Wilentz, for example – who have sought ways to recognize Reagan as a consequential president, and possibly even a great one, without ceding too much ideological ground to his conservatism," the story stated…….Continue Reading Another One for the Gipper
A publicly moral man
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy he was, in Tom Wolfe's phrase, "A man in full." It was Labor Day, 2007, on Cape Cod, and he was singing and laughing hugely through one of those parody songs that folks compose for friends' birthdays. He was great. He lit up the place. He was free at last, I thought. He had the right job and the right wife. He was free of the presidential ambitions forced on him by others, especially by his dead brothers. He was free of being a Kennedy. He was what he was meant to be,……Continue Reading A publicly moral man
Trial Lawyers at Work
The Wall Street Journal cited "The People v. Clarence Darrow" by CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan as the No. 1 book about trial lawyers. While defending labor activists accused of a 1910 bombing, Darrow was implicated in jury tampering; the noted lawyer defended himself and was acquitted. The article noted that Cowan weighs the evidence in his book, and concludes that Darrow was probably guilty…….Continue Reading Trial Lawyers at Work
Rachlis joins CCLP as senior fellow
Award-winning editor Kit Rachlis has been appointed a 2009-2010 Senior Fellow of the USC Annenberg School for Communication's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP). As a Senior Fellow, he will help lead a series of discussions and projects in the area of "Arts, Politics & Society."……Continue Reading Rachlis joins CCLP as senior fellow
Communication Leadership Open Forum: Tom Rosenstiel
Join Geoffrey Cowan, USC University Professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy for an open forum with Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Topics include new models for news, economic literacy and entrepreneurship skills needed in the journalism profession, and the role of media in a democracy with a focus on coverage of the debate over health care reform. This forum is part of a series planned in conjunction with Dean Wilson's Economic Literacy and Entrepreneurship (ELE) initiative. Lunch will be served. RSVP requested. To RSVP, write commlead@usc.edu…….Continue Reading Communication Leadership Open Forum: Tom Rosenstiel
African American media struggling to survive
Public Radio International's "Here and Now" interviewed Faculty Fellow Christopher Holmes Smith about African-American media outlets struggling to survive. The magazines are losing relevance because of class and generational differences within the black community, Smith said…….Continue Reading African American media struggling to survive
Will YouTube be the Craigslist of TV News?
BOSTON — Watch that space: YouTube video news is here, tailored just for you, featuring news of your microlocal neighborhood, just for you. If you haven't seen it, YouTube News Near You is an automated microlocal news service, with software detecting a your location and matching it with video news stories from that neighborhood. Turn on, tune in, and drop out of the six o'clock local TV news. So far the story selection is pretty limited. Think of YouTube's new local news service as 2009's version of the "Camel News Caravan," NBC's 15-minute nightly newscast of the early 1950's, hop……Continue Reading Will YouTube be the Craigslist of TV News?
Death an emotional rallying cry in Iran
The Los Angeles Daily News quoted Senior Fellow David Westphal about the widely viewed footage of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan dying from a gunshot wound. "The 'Neda' video wasn't the only amateur video that millions of people have been seeing over the last week, but it was clearly the most emotionally powerful, wrenchingly powerful, example," Westphal said…….Continue Reading Death an emotional rallying cry in Iran