7/28/2015
A note from Geoffrey Cowan and an update from the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
Cowan with his wife Aileen Adams and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti
Cowritten by Cowan and pioneering journalist and teacher Leroy Aarons, Top Secret is an inside look at the Washington Post's decision to publish a topsecret study documenting the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public's right to know against the government's claim of secrecy. The epic legal battle between the government and the press went to the nation's highest court and is perhaps the most important Supreme Court case ever on freedom of the press. Read more on the CCLP blog
Johnson authors new book on exotic bird heist CCLP visiting fellow Kirk Johnson's newest book, tentatively titled The Feather Underground: A Tale of Beauty, Obsessions, and the World's Greatest Natural History Crime, will be published by Viking Press. The book tracks the 2009 theft of hundreds of exotic and extinct bird skins from the British Museum of Natural History, and situates the heist within a 150year historical sweep of killing birds for profit, and the role that the Victorian Era feather fashion craze played in birthing the modern conservation movement. The book is currently scheduled for a Spring 2017 publication.
Cowan joins effort to increase university partnerships between California and Mexico Education leaders from Mexico and California have launched an initiative to identify key areas of research collaboration in an ongoing partnership to build sustained, strategic and equal relationships between educational institutions on both sides of the border. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1120878097087&format=html&printFrame=true
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