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A personal message from Geoffrey Cowan: Amazingly, this month marks the 10th anniversary of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. In midJune of 2007, we hosted our first major event, cosponsored by the Annenberg Foundation and Bloomberg. We called it “Ceasefire! Bridging the Political Divide,” and it featured participants such as Mayors Mike Bloomberg and Antonio Villaraigosa, and Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Janet Napolitano, and Kathleen Sebelius. While we have work left to do on that score, we have made progress on a number of other issues. This newsletter provides a brief overview of some of our accomplishments since we last reached out, and of some exciting CCLP initiatives that will be continued or launched in the months ahead. In our highly polarized political environment, CCLP’s work at the intersection of politics, media, technology, and public discourse is more important than ever. During the past year, we have led a range of electionrelated programs and events at the Annenberg School and elsewhere. Throughout the primaries, we hosted discussions and debate watching parties for students, wrote articles for a wide range of national publications, and traveled around the country discussing the primary process. Our research on the media’s coverage of the candidates was widely cited, and we launched a crowdsourced project to illuminate the convoluted and sometimes undemocratic way that primaries work in both parties. During the summer, in partnership with David Eisenhower and the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School, we took USC journalism students to both conventions, where they did some outstanding reporting while CCLP hosted meetings and events. This fall, we hosted debateviewing parties that attracted hundreds of students. Our election night viewing and discussion forum in Wallis Annenberg Hall, which drew over one thousand students, faculty, staff and friends, http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?e=a23bbf6ca1&u=f62b7a486232e1bdf95e0a780&id=ccce75148c
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continue to host conversations about the political process in the months ahead. If you have any suggestions of ways in which CCLP can or should be engaged, please let us know. Some highlights of CCLP's recent and ongoing work are set forth below. In addition to our research and programming related to the presidential election (including our postelection projects related to reform of the delegate selection process), we are
developing a series of new projects related to media and democracy with partners such as Common Sense Media, Harvard's Shorenstein Center, and RunForOffice.org. Over the summer, we launched a major new USC Internet of Things initiative led by Adam Clayton Powell III in our Washington, D.C. office, where Adam also continues to host monthly CCLP lunches on public diplomacy. And this December we are launching yet another new project, supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, on the importance of history in forging national identity. The initiative will include a series of forums in New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere supported by CCLP and curated by Senior Fellow Orville Schell, and will explore the ways in which political divides have been, or could be, overcome in countries like China and South Africa. Finally, our work on human trafficking and technology continues to resonate. Our research helped to inform and inspire the work of California Attorney General and now Senator Kamala Harris, and our 2012 report coincided with a 4year CA DOJ investigation of Backpage.com that led to its CEO being arrested in October, 2016. If you have thoughts, ideas, or suggestions related to anything in this newsletter, please email me or our new Associate Director Ev Boyle (eboyle@usc.edu), or call us at 2137409683. Best wishes for the holidays from our team at CCLP! Best,
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CCLP @ 2016 NATIONAL CONVENTIONS This past July, Geoffrey Cowan, Ev Boyle, Susan Goelz, Professor Laura Davis and the rest of our team at USC’s Annenberg Center arranged for some of USC’s top student journalists to attend and report from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. The experience included a number of private meetings and interviews with politicians, journalists, and other officials including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Libertarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson, UK politician and Brexit leader Nigel Farage, TX Rep. Pete Sessions, FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s General Counsel Brad Deutsch, and late-night Full Frontal host Samantha Bee. Check out highlights from the RNC and DNC Archive of student reporting on and about the conventions
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The USC Annenberg Center is leading a new USC initiative focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and emergency response. We organized two major meetings with deans and faculty from across the university at USC on Monday, September 19th, and a roundtable conversation with experts and policy-makers in Washinton, D.C. on October 26-27. Our new IoT initiative is based in USC’s Washington office and led by our new director of Washington programs, Adam Clayton Powell III. It is supported by the USC Office of the Provost and four USC schools: the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, the Marshall School of Business, the Price School of Public Policy, and the Viterbi School of Engineering.
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USC President Nikias has identified IoT and cybersecurity as major opportunities for USC in the months and years ahead. Our new IoT initiative builds on the work CCLP began in 2015 by convening a series of meetings in Washington, D.C. with researchers, NGOs, industry leaders and policymakers to explore ways in which handheld devices can be enhanced for public service purposes, including emergency response. Participants in those meetings included FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and internet pioneer and Google Vice President Vint Cerf. (Read more on our website.)
LET THE PEOPLE RULE + REFORMING PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Professor Geoffrey Cowan has been on a nationwide tour discussing the past, present, and future of presidential primaries and his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary, which will be available this January in paperback. In addition to recent appearances on MSNBC's Morning Joe, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, Cowan has given a series of major talks at venues including the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the Bryant Park Reading Room in New York, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco (in a conversation with Janet Napolitano), and many more.
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Cowan gave a recreation of Roosevelt's 1912 'Let the People Rule' campaign button to President Obama.
Throughout the primaries, Professor Cowan authored major articles in the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Daily Beast and The Atlantic, drawing parallels between Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 campaign and the 2016 primaries. Writing this summer in The New Yorker, history professor Jill Lepore called Let the People Rule “the best new discussion of the primary system.” And Martha Minow, the Dean of Harvard Law School, described the book as a “lively and detailed history [surfacing] newly identified archival materials,” and noted that “besides the sheer action afforded by the vivid narrative and largerthan-life personalities, this book offers obvious parallels with current political fights and illuminates their origins.” For more about the book and Professor Cowan's latest and upcoming appearances, visit geoffreycowan.com.
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES + THE MEDIA Last spring, CCLP's Associate Director Ev Boyle published an article based on original research titled, “Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump—here’s proof.” The research was featured in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Harvard's Shorenstein Center, among others.
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING + TECHNOLOGY
Three major reports that CCLP released on human trafficking and technology over the past five years have continued to make an impact in 2016. For example, our 2012 study Technology and Human Trafficking: The Rise of Mobile and the Diffusion of TechnologyFacilitated Trafficking helped to inspire and inform the work of California Attorney General and now Senator Kamala Harris, and coincided with a 4year CA DOJ investigation of Backpage.com that led to its CEO being arrested in October, 2016.
NEW PROJECTS: 2017 + BEYOND
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For example, we are working with RunForOffice.org and other partners on a plan for California to become the most accessible and inclusive state to run for office anywhere in the nation. In September, we submitted a related, Los Angelescentric proposal ("Open Ballot LA") to the Goldhirsh Foundation's LA2050 Challenge.
The need for a more open and accessible process of running for office is clear: Nearly 40 percent of state legislature seats go uncontested. Young Americans are running away from office at record rates, with 90 percent saying they would never want to serve in any of the nation’s more than 500,000 elected offices. A study of Los Angeles County found that over the last decade, 28 cities have cancelled elections for mayor or city council “because no one bothered making a challenge.” And a recent Pew survey shows that those who do run for office remain disproportionately male, white, and welleducated; only 20% of elected offices are held by women. Our democracy is facing a crisis of leadership that can only be solved when a larger, more diverse group of Americans runs for office. (Read more on our website.)
We are working with Common Sense Media and Harvard's Shorenstein Center on a new initiative led by new CCLP board member Jim Steyer and senior fellow Nicco Mele focused on the ways that children's issues are covered in the media. This spring, we are planning dual announcements of the new project at both USC and Harvard. Stay tuned for more details!
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CCLP is exploring another possible collaboration with the Shorenstein Center that would study, perhaps on an annual basis, the domestic and global implications of new communication technologies on democracy, civic discourse, and politics. For example, Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, along with the rise of “fake news,” were in many ways the story of the 2016 campaign. The attempted coup in Turkey was live streamed; and John Lewis used Periscope and Facebook to carry the sitin over gun control in the House of Representatives.
MORE HIGHLIGHTS: FALL 2016 We closely followed the 2016 election cycle, hosting debate viewings, panel discussions, and other special events. Here are a few photos and highlights:
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES & PANELS
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DEANS' OPEN FORUMS
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INTERNET OF THINGS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
TURNING POLARIZATION INTO CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION A candid talk with Muslim feminist author and Annenberg Center Fellow, Irshad Manji.
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ELECTION NIGHT @ USC
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AND MORE... For more information about CCLP and to follow our work, visit us at communicationleadership.usc.edu and follow us on Twitter @USC_CCLP!
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