CCLP public media futures forum (part III) , “Understanding Revenue Potential”

On July 10, 2012 at 9 PT/Noon ET USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, in partnership with the American University School of Communication presents the third installment of Public Media Futures Forum at the University of Washington. The third installment of Public Media Future's focuses in on the question: "What are the revenue development opportunities of the next decade?" The previous forums successfully focused on innovations in public media business models featuring the industry's leading public media executives. For a previous account of the forum, click here. Virtual participants are encouraged to tune in and interact with the……Continue Reading CCLP public media futures forum (part III) , “Understanding Revenue Potential”

Senior Fellow Jeremy Curtin honored by U.S. Department of State

CCLP Senior Fellow Jeremy Curtin was presented with the Equality Award yesterday, an annual award given by Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA), by Cheryl Mills, Counselor and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The award honors Curtin for his assistance in the implementation of Secretary Clinton's policy that extends benefits to the partners of Foreign Service employees. This policy serves as a specific application of President Obama's policy, which more broadly offers benefits to the partners of federal employees. Secretary Clinton's policy provides partners of Foreign Service employees with U.S. diplomatic passports, access to……Continue Reading Senior Fellow Jeremy Curtin honored by U.S. Department of State

Technology To Fight Human Trafficking: Microsoft Awards Research Grants

CCLP research director Mark Latonero interviewed by NPR Seattle's KUOW News about the recent Microsoft grant allocated to research efforts dedicated to quell the ever rising problem of "Human Trafficking Online." Latonero: "It's my hope that some of the research which is being incubated, really by Microsoft with these grants, actually has that kind of potential in the future." To read the interview in full, please click here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Technology To Fight Human Trafficking: Microsoft Awards Research Grants

Microsoft Names Research Grant Recipients in Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking

CCLP post doc was amongst six research teams awarded $185,000 in funding from Microsoft to advance deeper understanding of the advertising and selling of children and the use of technology by "johns" in the child sex trade. Dr. Jennifer Musto, one of the Microsoft grantees, is part of CCLP's research team writing a follow-up report to be released in the fall. To read Microsoft's announcement in full please click here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Microsoft Names Research Grant Recipients in Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking

The Reagan Legacy and Democracy

Faculty Fellow, Philip Seib, blogs for the Huffington Post about the importance of the Reagan Legacy and Democracy. "If the United States is to make democracy the hallmark of its public diplomacy, Reagan's words, and those of the former policy makers at his library's conference, can provide a valuable foundation for those who seek to build a new political world." Read the blog here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading The Reagan Legacy and Democracy

Country for Sale

Senior Fellow Richard Reeves blogs for TruthDig about the sobering reality of the possibility of an impending takeaway election. Is this Country for Sale? Read the article in full here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};……Continue Reading Country for Sale

Latonero and Sinnreich present “configurable” culture research at ICA conference

On May 26, Research Director Mark Latonero and Professor Aram Sinnreich (Rutgers University) presented "Nowadays It's Like Remix World": The Hidden Demography of New Media Ethics at the International Communication Association conference in Phoenix, AZ. The paper was a part of the panel "Participatory, Promotional Cultures: 'Sharing' and Self-Representation in the Contemporary Media Moment." CCLP funded this project as a part of its Technology & Social Change initiative. The paper examines the explosion of new "configurable" cultural forms and practices, such as mashups, remixes and machinima, enabled by rapidly changing global digital network technologies. While these new cultural forms, which……Continue Reading Latonero and Sinnreich present “configurable” culture research at ICA conference

Curtin and Hughes’ digital outreach team grows

Senior fellow Jeremy Curtin and Karen Hughes' Digital Outreach Team grows into the operation described here. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");……Continue Reading Curtin and Hughes’ digital outreach team grows

Ford Foundation grant signals shift away from public broadcasting

The Ford Foundation, which for decades funded much of public broadcasting, last week shifted its media grantmaking to a different medium – newspapers. The Los Angeles Times announced the $1 million grant, which according to the Times will pay for reporters to cover "Vietnamese, Korean and other immigrant communities, the California prison system, the border region and Brazil." The Times story noted that the new Brazil-based reporter will be the newspaper's first full-time correspondent in Latin America in "several years." Until now, the Ford Foundation has been more closely associated with public radio and television. Ford used to give National……Continue Reading Ford Foundation grant signals shift away from public broadcasting