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Sandy Banks, former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and journalism professor at Cal State Northridge, has been named a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan announced today. As a senior fellow of CCLP, Banks will focus on journalism innovation in areas including homelessness, policing and criminal…Continue Reading Longtime L.A. Times Columist Sandy Banks Named CCLP Senior Fellow

CCLP Senior Research Fellow Mark Latonero published a piece in this week’s Foreign Affairs about recent investments from the U.S. State Department and others in mobile apps focused on the refugee crisis – and what impact we can reasonably expect from such initiatives. Latonero, who also leads the Data and Human Rights program at the Data & Society…Continue Reading CCLP Fellow Mark Latonero Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs: “An App to Save Syria’s Lost Generation?”

WASHINGTON — Amanda Bennett, the new Director of the Voice of America, was the featured speaker at this month’s CCLP lunch forum just two weeks after she was sworn in. She introduced herself by saying she was not a diplomat, but she practices public diplomacy. “I’m all journalist and no diplomat,” said Bennett, but she added,…Continue Reading New VOA Director: “Great journalism is great public diplomacy”

Cowan will be interviewed on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal call-in program this Sunday, April 24th, at 8:30am ET. He will be discussing the history of presidential primaries and the 2016 election in the context of his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary.  Watch a video of the interview…Continue Reading Watch CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan on C-SPAN this Sunday, April 24th at 8:30am ET

Guest speakers from diverse fields including politics, international diplomacy and medicine presented at the Pacific Council on International Policy’s Spring Conference on April 15. The event was co-hosted by the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and provided an opportunity for PCIP members to learn more about…Continue Reading Speakers discuss election, economics at international policy conference

WASHINGTON — Americans underestimate the impact of jazz on audiences around the world. And in a way that contributes to the power of international tours by U.S. jazz musicians, including and especially tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department. That was the conclusion of all of the participants in this month’s CCLP Communications Leadership forum…Continue Reading Jazz examined as an instrument of U.S. diplomacy at CCLP forum