WASHINGTON – Pacifica Radio has lost $5.5 million since 2005 and has drained its financial reserves, according to Arlene Engelhardt, Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation. The network's financial performance is unsustainable, according to Engelhardt, writing in a blog post on Friday. "Pacifica's overall listener support dropped 23%–from $13.8 million for fiscal year ending (FYE) September 30, 2006 to $10.6 million for FYE 2010," she wrote. "KPFA's listener support dropped 27%–from $4.0 million for FYE 2005 to $2.9 million FYE 2010." "KPFA, WBAI (in New York) and WPFW (in Washington, D.C.) have been running seriously in the red," she continued…….Continue Reading Pacifica Radio lost over $5 million, termed unsustainable by Director
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WE-NATO: Philip Seib and the Power of Soft Power
To improve NATO's digital connectivity NATO's Public Diplomacy Division hosted a workshop called "The Power of Soft Power- NATO's Public Diplomacy in the Digital World" on Tuesday (27 March) 2012. In this YouTube clip CCLP Faculty Fellow Philip Seib describes soft power as essential in international relations as an important alternative to relying heavily on hard power. In what he sees as the 'information century' Seib believes this is increasingly possible as the internet and social media empowers people by informing them, leading to increased participation in politics and greater democratization. Watch 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 WE-NATO: Philip Seib and the Power of Soft Power
Health Care: We’re All in This Together
CCLP Senior Fellow Richard Reeves weighs in on the pressing health care debacle in his latest installment for truthdig. What are your thought's on Obamacare? Read more 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 Health Care: We’re All in This Together
Gary AP Appointment
CCLP advisory board member Gary Pruitt was named last week as the new President and CEO of The Associated Press. Here's a link to AP's story…….Continue Reading Gary AP Appointment
Panelists find progress in free flow of information worldwide
WASHINGTON – Speakers at a CCLP forum at the Newseum provided mostly positive assessments of worldwide freedom of information. Vint Cerf, widely described as "father of the Internet," said the combination of the Internet with mobile telephones has extended freedom of information to billions of people worldwide. If there is a better technology, he added, he doesn't know about it – or he would be investing in it. Cerf, who serves as Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist (yes, that's his official title), did express a concern. Governments and politicians keep trying to control the Internet, just as governments……Continue Reading Panelists find progress in free flow of information worldwide
Nagourney, Kennard, Dotan, and Winograd talk campaign politics post-Super Tuesday in latest Road to White House installment
In collaboration with USC's Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise and the Unruh Institute of Politics, CCLP hosted the most recent installment of the weekly Road to the White House speaker series yesterday. This week's topic was "Politics, Media, and the Presidential Primaries after Super Tuesday." The panel that led this discussion was moderated by CCLP senior fellow and former White House Senior Policy Advisor, Morley Winograd. He was joined by Tom Dotan, editor-at-large for Neon Tommy; Los Angeles Bureau Chief and former Chief National Political Correspondent for the New York Times Adam Nagourney; and finally by……Continue Reading Nagourney, Kennard, Dotan, and Winograd talk campaign politics post-Super Tuesday in latest Road to White House installment
CCLP and the Annenberg School file FCC comment advocating for multi-disciplinary research on localism and diversity
On March 5th, 2012, the CCLP and the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism filed comments in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding the 2010 Quadrennial Regulatory Review, Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules (FCC MB Docket No. 09-182) and Promoting Diversification of Ownership in the Broadcast Services (FCC MB Docket No. 07-294). The CCLP and the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism submitted the comments on behalf of the Communication Policy Research Network (CPRN), a national consortium of non-partisan and multidisciplinary social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, and communication experts. This group has spent……Continue Reading CCLP and the Annenberg School file FCC comment advocating for multi-disciplinary research on localism and diversity
Watch Geoffrey Cowan – The Play Top Secret in China
Watch CCLP Director Geoffrey Cowan lead a lecture on his award winning play, "Top Secret" recently published on YouTube February 28th, 2012. The play won the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Gold Medal for Excellence in Best Live Entertainment and was recently performed in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai before packed auditoriums. In some instances Cowan, and the play's producer, director, and performers were able to talk with audiences about the issued addressed in the play. In some places, Chinese authorities sought to prevent such discussions. Click here to watch the lecture in it's entirety…….Continue Reading Watch Geoffrey Cowan – The Play Top Secret in China
Latonero appointed to National Research Council committee
Mark Latonero, Director of Research and Instruction at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), was recently appointed to a national Committee on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States. The committee is selected and hosted by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies…….Continue Reading Latonero appointed to National Research Council committee
Annual Latino State of the Union, Washington D.C.
The Huffington Post noted that CCLP Faculty Fellow Roberto Suro of the USC Annenberg School attended a Washington, D.C., roundtable on Latino law and civil rights issues, and cited him regarding Latinos' public policy concerns. "Latinos are a dynamic population, growing, changing and diverse, so too are their public policy concerns," said Professor Roberto Suro. Read the article in full here…….Continue Reading Annual Latino State of the Union, Washington D.C.