A profile and summary of Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis and his recently published memoir, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Lifetime in Leadership was published on the ChicagoNow blog…….Continue Reading Bennis on ChicagoNow
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Glickman in Variety
"It is going to be a changed world, regardless of what happens," said Senior Fellow Dan Glickman regarding the midterm elections on November 2. Glickman, the former chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, was interviewed by Variety about what the outcome of the election results means for the country at large…….Continue Reading Glickman in Variety
Annual Report to the Annenberg Foundation for Fiscal Year 2009-10
Background In 2006, the Annenberg Foundation established the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and established and endowed the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. In 2009, the Center's name was changed to the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) to better reflect the breadth of its activities and research. The Foundation established and endowed the Annenberg Family Chair with a $3 million grant in July 2006. The Foundation established CCLP through a $3 million grant scheduled to be paid in five installments of $600,000, beginning in July……Continue Reading Annual Report to the Annenberg Foundation for Fiscal Year 2009-10
NPR, Juan Williams and the Clash of News and Talk
"Would you have fired Juan if you were still Vice President of News at NPR?" asked a longtime friend. He was referring of course to NPR News analyst Juan Williams' expression of concern about fellow airplane passengers in "Muslim garb." (Rhetoric note: He was trying to make the exact reverse point than his subordinate preamble suggested, so he's due demerits for poor phrasing.) My answer: It's not a hypothetical. We actually faced these same issues in the late 1980's, when I was head of NPR News: Cokie Roberts, who was covering Capitol Hill for NPR, received an offer from ABC……Continue Reading NPR, Juan Williams and the Clash of News and Talk
Bennis on Economic Times website
The Moghul of the modern day field of leadership studies, otherwise known as Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis was profiled on the website for The Economic Times. He spoke of his newest release Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Lifetime in Leadership and said that he still can "see the world with the same wide-eyed wonder as I did years ago, because everything is so different from what it was then."……Continue Reading Bennis on Economic Times website
Westphal in LA Observed
Senior Fellow David Westphal and the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting at USC Annenberg was profiled on the LA Observed blog. Westphal said that the project has "demonstrated one point clearly: that a news organization supported by a foundation (the California HealthCare Foundation) and affiliated with a university journalism school (USC Annenberg) can partner with local news organizations to produce difference-making journalism."……Continue Reading Westphal in LA Observed
Bennis in Fortune on Obama’s Leadership
"When you read Obama's speeches, they're beautiful," says Warren Bennis, Distinguished CCLP Fellow. "They'll go down as some of the most brilliant essays. But none of them has a sound bite. Where is Reagan's, 'Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall?'" Bennis was cited an article on Fortune Magazine's website where experts were asked to critique the leadership qualities of President Obama…….Continue Reading Bennis in Fortune on Obama’s Leadership
Seib comments on Rally to Restore Sanity
The Internet only amplifies these movements, said Faculty Fellow Philip Seib to the Christian Science Monitor. Seib was commenting on Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" which is now sparking sister rallies from Tel Aviv to the Mt. Everest Base Camp, including one in Downtown Los Angeles. "I would think we're going to have more and more phenomenon that start national and become global." Seib also speculates that internet will help in the creation and coordination of grassroots political movements…….Continue Reading Seib comments on Rally to Restore Sanity
Schell and Breashears at Sustainability Conference at CSU Chico
Senior Fellow Orville Schell and former CCLP guest speaker, David Breashears are presenting an encore of the presentation "Climate Change in the Himalaya" at the 2010 This Way to Sustainability Conference, a project of Chico State University and Butte College. The conference will be held from November 4-6…….Continue Reading Schell and Breashears at Sustainability Conference at CSU Chico
Anti-Trafficking Forum Highlights Need for Global Information Sharing Platform
International nonprofit organizations are gaining ground in the fight against human trafficking, but would be better served with the development of an information sharing platform, a team of researchers from the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy confirmed after a two day conference in Yorba Linda, Calif. Led by CCLP Research Director Mark Latonero, the team participated in the Global Forum on Human Trafficking, an international symposium hosted by a San Francisco based anti-trafficking non-profit. "This conference reinforced the findings from our August fact-finding mission to the Mekong sub-region," explained Latonero, who led the research initiative in Cambodia and Thailand…….Continue Reading Anti-Trafficking Forum Highlights Need for Global Information Sharing Platform