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New York Times bestselling author Jill Leovy, who pioneered an important form of journalism by creating ‘The Homicide Report’ for the Los Angeles Times, has joined the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership & Policy as a Senior Fellow. “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America” (Speigel&Grau/Random House 2015) was a National Book Critics…Continue Reading Award Winning Journalist and Bestselling Author Jill Leovy Joins CCLP as Senior Fellow

By: Jung-Hwa “Judy” Kang “The threat today is remarkably different from what we were facing when the Soviet Union existed,” described Scott Rauland, Senior State Department Advisor at the U.S. Helsinki Commission, in his presentation “From Soviet Propaganda to the ‘Firehose of Russian Falsehood” at the monthly CCLP Washington D.C. forum. His lecture focused on…Continue Reading From Soviet Propaganda to the ‘Firehose of Russian Falsehood’: Scott Rauland at the CCLP D.C. Forum

In April, CCLP fellow Irshad Manji convened a workshop at the USC Annenberg School that discussed moral courage, community engagement, and different communication styles. The workshop, attended by about 20 USC students, was structured as an interactive and collaborative follow-up to the event last November sponsored by Visions and Voices and organized by CCLP and…Continue Reading Senior Fellow Irshad Manji Leads Moral Courage Workshop at CCLP

This past February, CCLP Director of Washington Programs Adam Clayton Powell III presented the Center’s Internet of Things (IoT) emergency response initiative at the 2017 National Governors Association (NGA) winter session in Washington, D.C. The presentation, which focused on cyber-security threats, discussed the multidisciplinary IoT program that CCLP announced last year in Washington, D.C. and on…Continue Reading Director of Washington Programs Adam Powell opens Internet of Things partnership with the National Governors Association

The Center on Communication Leadership & Policy welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff as a new senior fellow. During his 28 year career at the New York Times, Markoff was widely regarded as one of the nation’s best technology reporters. He retired from the Times last December and now serves as a journalist in residence…Continue Reading Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist John Markoff Joins CCLP as a Senior Fellow

Renowned political journalist and author Todd S. Purdum will become a senior fellow of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. Purdum is a senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity…Continue Reading POLITICO Senior Writer Todd S. Purdum named CCLP Senior Fellow

On March 7, CCLP brought together over 200 students, staff, and faculty in a captivating conversation about journalism, politics, and civic engagement. That night, in the lobby of USC’s Wallis Annenberg Hall, CCLP, in collaboration with the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, brought together a number of media heavyweights from across the ideological spectrum…Continue Reading CCLP’s “Trump and the Press” Event Talks Fake News, Alternative Media, and Presidential Tweets

Last week, with support from CCLP and Professor Geoffrey Cowan, a team of USC Annenberg students went to our nation’s capital for the inauguration of the 45th President and the Women’s March. The group of six students, led by professor Robert Hernandez, partnered with The New York Times Daily 360 team to produce 360 video…Continue Reading Annenberg and CCLP Students Cover 360 Degrees of Trump’s Inauguration

CCLP visiting fellow Vasily Gatov was quoted in a New Yorker article about the overstated reach of Russian propaganda and its influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In “The propaganda about Russian propaganda,” journalist Adrian Chen describes the work of anonymous internet research collective PropOrNot, which claims to have identified 200 “Russian propaganda outlets”…Continue Reading Visiting fellow Vasily Gatov offers input on Russian propaganda