http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/ en http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ Top public media executives and producers gathered in Los Angeles on April 28 to discuss the future of public media by highlighting success stories and exploring ways in which public media could incorporate innovative programming and new approaches to sustainable funding. USC Annenberg Dean Ernest J. Wilson, former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, opened the forum off with the warning: "We either innovate or die. That's just the bottom line." The subsequent dialogue centered on the themes of multiplatform news coverage, collaboration, and extending the reach of public media by targeting diverse communities in the local market. The...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/wl6a6jzInZo" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-30T21:42:16Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/wl6a6jzInZo/public_media_executives_scholars_and_producers_discuss_public_medias_future.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/public_media_executives_scholars_and_producers_discuss_public_medias_future.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/public_media_executives_scholars_and_producers_discuss_public_medias_future.html Public Media Futures Los Angeles Forum USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, in partnership with American University's School of Communication presented a forum on the future of public media in an era of shrinking government support. The conversation focused on innovations in programming and new models for sustainable funding. Participants included top executives and programmers, including Bill Davis, president and CEO, KPCC/Southern California Public Radio; Al Jerome, president and CEO, KCET; Ed Miskevich, station manager, KOCE/PBS SoCal; Suzanne Marmion, news and editorial strategy director, KPBS-TV/FM. CCLP senior fellow Adam Clayton Powell III led the conversation together with Mark...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/KaebLb6WyC0" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-25T16:05:57Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/KaebLb6WyC0/cclp_convenes_industry_leaders_on_future_of_public_media.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_convenes_industry_leaders_on_future_of_public_media.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_convenes_industry_leaders_on_future_of_public_media.html On April 19, Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy hosted the 2nd Annual Human Trafficking Research Luncheon for the USC research community. USC faculty from across campus discussed the spectrum of human trafficking research and interdisciplinary perspectives and collaborations. Luncheon attendees heard from Rhacel Parrenas on her most recent book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo, and from Mark Latonero on his white paper, Human Trafficking Online: The role of social networking sites and online forums. Attendees also discussed the current legal definitions of human trafficking in domestic and international law, the pros and cons of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/PaOVudkG5gc" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-24T19:38:08Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/PaOVudkG5gc/cclp_hosts_usc_scholars_from_across_disciplines_to_discuss_human_trafficking.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_hosts_usc_scholars_from_across_disciplines_to_discuss_human_trafficking.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_hosts_usc_scholars_from_across_disciplines_to_discuss_human_trafficking.html The impact of CCLP's 2011 Human Trafficking Online report continues to grow, with research director Mark Latonero recently presenting to two conventions of Attorneys General. On March 29th in Seattle, Latonero presented at the 2012 National Association of Attorneys General Presidential Initiative Summit: "Pillars of Hope: Attorneys General Unite against Human Trafficking." The panel, titled "The Business of Trafficking: Data Mining and Following the International Money Trail," was introduced by NAAG President and Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna. Fellow panelists included Samantha Doerr, Public Affairs Manager for the Microsoft Corporation Digital Crimes Unit, Barry M. Koch, Managing Director & Associate...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/Fr0ypU1wmp8" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-24T17:40:00Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/Fr0ypU1wmp8/latonero_discusses_technology_and_human_trafficking_at_attorneys_general_conferences.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/latonero_discusses_technology_and_human_trafficking_at_attorneys_general_conferences.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/latonero_discusses_technology_and_human_trafficking_at_attorneys_general_conferences.html Religious broadcasters' plans to buy PBS stations in California and Florida have been blocked, one at an auction and the other by the seller cancelling the transaction. KCSM-TV, a PBS station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, is in financial difficulty and was put up for auction in February, and last week the top two bidders were announced. Neither is a church group....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/lGjSsaP6eb4" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-18T21:50:51Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/lGjSsaP6eb4/church_groups_fail_in_attempts_to_buy_calif_florida_pbs_stations.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/church_groups_fail_in_attempts_to_buy_calif_florida_pbs_stations.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/church_groups_fail_in_attempts_to_buy_calif_florida_pbs_stations.html This morning's media headline - US Court of Appeals rules public television and radio stations can run political ads. It even made the front-page news summary of the Wall Street Journal, linking to a full article on page A5. You can read the court's ruling here. Yes, the "PBS NewsHour" can now be sponsored by the Obama campaign, and "Washington Week" can run advertisements for the Tea Party. How did that happen?...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/EUzftyprfd0" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-13T16:19:23Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/EUzftyprfd0/public_tv_can_now_carry_political_ads_after_lawsuit_by_sf_public_tv_station.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/public_tv_can_now_carry_political_ads_after_lawsuit_by_sf_public_tv_station.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/public_tv_can_now_carry_political_ads_after_lawsuit_by_sf_public_tv_station.html This year's Peabody Awards hold special places of honor for independent producers, just as critics charge PBS is trying to marginalize them. Operating with far fewer resources than the PBS network, independent producers won four awards, while their wealthier PBS colleagues won three. The series "Independent Lens" was the only television program honored with two Peabodys, both for documentaries - one award went to "Bhutto," on the life of Benazir Bhutto, described by ITVS as "an epic tale of Shakespearean dimension. It's the story of the first Muslim woman elected in history to lead an Islamic nation: Pakistan." She was...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/QmoI4l9wCCs" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-09T18:34:28Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/QmoI4l9wCCs/peabody_awards_recognize_independent_public_television_producers.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/peabody_awards_recognize_independent_public_television_producers.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/peabody_awards_recognize_independent_public_television_producers.html Author of No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner Bob Shrum and Marylouise Oates, prominent journalist and novelist (Making Peace), joined Geoffrey Cowan, director of the Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, for a discussion on Wednesday April 4 about the current presidential primary race. Oates brought up the discussion of the importance of the Catholic vote and how the topic of contraception has been such a popular one in this election season so far. "I think it's interesting that Santorum has lost the Catholic vote in every single state so far," Oates said. "It's because 98% of practicing...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/5ZZOj4cmwlE" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-06T16:10:29Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/5ZZOj4cmwlE/road_to_white_house_panelists_debate_ca_primary.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/road_to_white_house_panelists_debate_ca_primary.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/road_to_white_house_panelists_debate_ca_primary.html 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....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/USZYW2pUxiA" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-04-02T21:30:00Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/USZYW2pUxiA/pacifica_radio_lost_over_5_million_termed_unsustainable_by_director.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/pacifica_radio_lost_over_5_million_termed_unsustainable_by_director.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/pacifica_radio_lost_over_5_million_termed_unsustainable_by_director.html 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...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/2HHyPw0jxRg" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-03-21T16:31:12Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/2HHyPw0jxRg/post_7.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_7.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_7.html 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...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/oInHkmVr2QU" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-03-08T22:07:14Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/oInHkmVr2QU/post_6.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_6.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_6.html 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...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/Spcqu05aAkk" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-03-08T19:41:58Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/Spcqu05aAkk/cclp_and_the_annenberg_school_for_communication_journalism_file_comments_with_the_fcc.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_and_the_annenberg_school_for_communication_journalism_file_comments_with_the_fcc.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/cclp_and_the_annenberg_school_for_communication_journalism_file_comments_with_the_fcc.html 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....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/9bQAYfMmXwE" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-02-23T18:33:44Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/9bQAYfMmXwE/mark_latonero_director_of_research.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/mark_latonero_director_of_research.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/mark_latonero_director_of_research.html WASHINGTON - Gary Knell, NPR's new President and CEO, said yesterday that public radio must embrace "four diversities" to broaden its audience and public service. Knell, who became CEO of NPR two months ago, said he planned to make NPR more diverse by ethnicity, age, geography, and "thought."...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/hasydqbbdt8" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-02-17T18:23:58Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/hasydqbbdt8/post_5.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_5.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/post_5.html In the latest of a series of panels on the Road to the White House 2012: Politics, Media & Technology, the CCLP hosted a conversation between several prominent conservatives on the topic of the Republican Primaries and the News Media. The panelists included Andrew Breitbart, founder and publisher of Breitbart.com, BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com; Jon Fleischman, founder and publisher of FlashReport.org, and College Republicans President, Lizzy Breiter....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~4/ybCZm3JT8Qk" height="1" width="1"/> 2012-02-15T22:41:53Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UscAnnenbergCenterOnCommunicationLeadershipPolicy/~3/ybCZm3JT8Qk/in_the_latest_of_a.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/in_the_latest_of_a.html http://communicationleadership.usc.edu/blog/in_the_latest_of_a.html