When we consider the history of women in journalism – we are confronted with many contradictions. For more than a century, countless women have made significant contributions to the profession, and society, through their reporting. From Margaret Fuller, the first female American foreign correspondent, to Ida B. Wells, one of the nation’s most influential…Continue Reading Media’s Gender Revolution
University Professor Geoffrey Cowan and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) are thrilled to announce the names of the three talented Annenberg graduate students that will serve as 2018-2019 Cowan Scholars. Isabella (Bella) Marten, Justine Leblanc, and Jessica (Jesse) Ryan were selected from a competitive pool of incoming Annenberg students for…Continue Reading Geoffrey Cowan welcomes the 2018-2019 cohort of Cowan Scholars
CCLP is pleased to welcome Sylvester Monroe as a Senior Fellow and as a new member of the USC Annenberg community. For the past three years, Monroe served as an Assistant Foreign Editor at The Washington Post in charge of reporting from Europe and South Asia. As a Senior Fellow, he will focus on news and…Continue Reading Veteran journalist and best-selling author Sylvester Monroe to join CCLP as a Senior Fellow
Young people are taking over the news and the nation’s politics. From the wave of young women now running for office or contributing to campaigns to the organization of March for Our Lives following the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in February, younger generations of American citizens are making waves at polling…Continue Reading Millennials and the Future of American Democracy: CCLP Tackles Political Localism in April Panel
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is proud to announce that Cindi Leive, the distinguished former editor-in-chief of both Glamour and Self, has become a Senior Fellow. A journalist and cultural critic, Leive is also the co-producer of several New York Times bestsellers, including the 2018 book Together We Rise, about the making of the women’s…Continue Reading Cindi Leive, Journalist and Former Editor-in-Chief of Glamour and Self, Joins CCLP as a Senior Fellow
Today, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that he would not seek re-election. The decision by Paul Ryan comes on the heels of many other revelations from prominent Republican incumbents, such as Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake and Representatives Darrell Issa and Ryan Costello, that they will be gracefully retiring in January. So…Continue Reading Midterms: The First Lap
Although it long-seemed like a fantasy, cities and city governments across the country are now starting to reckon with the fact that autonomous vehicles will soon be the next reality. Given that the CEO of ride-sharing company Uber recently announced his plans to have self-driving cars in service by the summer of 2019 and that…Continue Reading CCLP teams up with the Berggruen Institute to host workshop on Technological Rupture
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to support The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Twitter Analysis Project, which will examine whether or not the South Korean government achieved its diplomatic goals for the Winter Olympics. The project will: Analyze how South Korea used soft power to increase its influence and build its…Continue Reading CCLP Supports The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Twitter Analysis Project
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) is pleased to welcome Nancy Gibbs, the former Editor-in-Chief of TIME MAGAZINE, as a Senior Fellow. After graduating from Yale (summa cum laude), Gibbs was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. During her remarkable career at Time, she covered four presidential campaigns…Continue Reading CCLP Welcomes Former Editor in Chief of TIME Nancy Gibbs as a Senior Fellow
California is having no easy year, confronting raging fires, rising gas taxes, questions around immigration, and a dramatic Governor’s race. There was no better time for CCLP to co-host with the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics a political conversation with former Governor of California Gray Davis, who shared his expert insight into the challenges…Continue Reading CCLP Co-Hosts Political Conversation with Gray Davis