Uscannenberg Videos

Ready to Share: Closing Remarks, David Bollier

Norman Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan introduces David Bollier, Lear Center Senior Fellow, to make his closing remarks at the landmark conference.

Ready to Share: Out on Top -- The T-shirt, From Fashion Essential to Revolutionary Icon

Rose Apodaca, West Coast Bureau Chief, Women's Wear Daily, offers her take on the T-shirt. It might still basically serve us as a comfortable basic, but the T-shirt's storied evolution as a statement and staple of emancipation, creativity, commerce and fashion makes it the single most important article of clothing in our collective closets. T-shirts serve as banners of rebellion and uniforms of inclusiveness. They have been interpreted, altered and morphed into more ways than anyone can count - and they continue to be reinvented in ways that can comment on, complement and even shape the culture.

Ready to Share: Fashion Show | Chanel or Faux-nel? A Legendary Jacket . . . Unraveled

Vintage expert Cameron Silver takes us on a guided tour through the hall-of-mirrors history of a fashion icon: the Chanel jacket. Reflected in just about every fashion season since its inception, the Chanel jacket long ago crossed the line from couture into ready to wear and has become a staple of many well-respected collections as well as discount knockoff lines. With models wearing original Chanel and knockoff interpretations, Silver will review the history of the design, its unique place in the fashion lexicon and Chanel's perspective on what it perceives as the abuse of the brand.

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III congratulates USC Annenberg's Class of 2013

Dean Ernest J. Wilson III congratulates USC Annenberg's Class of 2013

Ready to Share: The Future of Sharing -- Content & Creativity in the Digital Age

Participants: John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation; Jonathan Taplin, TV and film producer and USC Annenberg Professor; Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University and author of Copyright and Copywrongs; Moderator: Rick Karr, television correspondent and writer. In this concluding panel, leaders in academia, industry and the arts discuss the implications of emulating the fashion model -- exploring how and why other industries and innovators might adopt or reject fashion's modus operandi.

Ready to Share: The Business of Creativity

Known for succeeding by breaking the rules, Norman Lear and Michael Patrick King discuss creative risk-taking in the entertainment industry and King's use of fashion in Sex and the City. Following this conversation, a panel (Cate Adair, costume designer for Desperate Housewives; Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President of New Media, EMI; Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times fashion reporter; Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tony Award-winning actress and fashion designer) will respond, addressing practical obstacles and opportunities for implementing innovative visions in fashion, film, music and television.

2013 Walter Cronkite Awards Ceremony

Proving that political coverage can be both informative and compelling, the 2013 winners of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism have been announced by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The 2013 Cronkite Awards recognize distinguished work produced during the 2011-2012 election cycle. View the winning entries below. Read the full press release. Stay tuned for videos of the winners accepting their awards!

The awards were presented at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., on Friday, April 19, after a panel discussion among the winners.

2013 James L. Loper Lecture in Public Service Broadcasting with Tavis Smiley

April 17, 2013: The James L. Loper Lecture in Public Service Broadcasting hosted Tavis Smiley, Host of Tavis Smiley on PBS, radio host of the Tavis Smiley Show and Smiley & West on Public Radio International.

Dean Wilson introduced Tavis Smiley at the James L. Loper Lecture in Public Service Broadcasting, held at the California Club. Dean Wilson described to the audience, which included USC Trustee Frank Cruz and LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, how USC Annenberg's goals align with those of public media. He pointed to similarities in the missions of public broadcasting and the Annenberg School, including advancing dialogue, diversity and digital tools for better communication.

Since its inception in 2005, the Loper Lecture has featured prominent leaders such as Vivian Schiller, the then-head of NPR; Brian Lamb, the founder of C-SPAN; Dr. William F. Baker, the leader of WNET and WLIW; David Fanning, the founder and executive producer of Frontline; and Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of PBS Newshour.

2013 Walter Cronkite Awards Panel Discussion

The Panel Discussion took place at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on April 19, 2013.

The Cronkite Award For Excellence In Television Political Journalism encourages and showcases substantive and innovative coverage that informs viewers about their electoral choices. Administered by the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism of the University of Southern California, the award recognizes television journalism that helps viewers understand who the candidates are; what the issues and ballot propositions are; how electoral choices will affect their lives; how to assess campaign information, including advertising; and how to register, vote and make their own voices heard.

This year we partner with the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania to introduce the Brooks Jackson Prize For Fact Checking Political Advertising, which recognizes TV journalists' best practices in reducing the level of deception and confusion in U.S. political ads. The prize is named for the founding director of FactCheck.org.

The Panel Discussion Features (in order from Left to Right:)
Marshall Zelinger, Reporter, KMGH, Denver

Tom McKee, Reporter, WCPO, Cincinnati

Karla Hult, Reporter, KARE, Minneapolis

Scott Thuman, Anchor, WJLA, NewsChannel8, POLITICO

Brandon Rittiman, Political Reporter, KUSA

Geneva Overholser, Director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism

Elbert Tucker, News Director, WBNS, Columbus

David Chalian, VP Video Programming, WJLA, NewsChannel8, POLITICO

Greg Lane, President TVW

Candy Altman, VP News, Hearst Station Group

Wayne Lynch, News Director, NWCN

Loretha Jones, President of Original Programming, BET

Daniel Morcate, Chief Managing Editor, Univision

Director of the Norman Lear Center is Marty Kaplan and coordination of awards by Veronica Jauriqui, Scott McGibbon and Adam Amel Rogers

Mike Daniels Memorial

Memorial service for Mike Daniels, extraordinary journalist, teacher, mentor and friend.
See list of speakers below.
Service held on April 21, 2013, at the California Yacht Club in Marina del Rey.
Attended by dozens of former colleagues, former students, relatives and friends of Mike Daniels.

Speakers (in order):
Joe Saltzman
Pete Noyes
Dan Gingold
Dave Lopez
Joe Sullivan
Serena Cha
Tony Cabrera
Zack Snyder
Mark Daniels
Jan Daniels
Alan Daniels
Lou Varela
Dennis Conneally
Bob Harmon
John Isaksen

Thank you to:
Tom Norris for shooting and editing this video.
James Vasquez and Chuck Boyles for making this video possible.
Jackson DeMos for allowing this video to be posted on the USC Annenberg YouTube channel.
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2013 Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium with Obama's campaign directors

USC Annenberg and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Los Angeles present the 23rd annual Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium: Communication Meets Technology on the Road to the White House: Big Data, Social Media, and the Winning Obama 2012 Campaign.

Join Dean Ernest J. Wilson III and Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, for a discussion with Larry Grisolano, director of Paid Media, Obama-Biden re-election campaign and Andrew Bleeker, new media director, Presidential Inaugural Committee. Learn from these two senior Obama 2012 insiders how the campaign made use of Big Data to micro target audiences and issues by means of PR, advertising, and social media. How exactly did the technology-driven acquisition and analysis of data guide both overall communication strategy and real time tactical execution?

Scrapbooks, Army Surplus, Comics and Other Stuff with C. Tyler and Henry Jenkins

"Draw. No matter what." That's the advice underground cartoonist Carol Tyler, known for her richly layered autobiographical comic stories and novels, gave to students who gathered for her talk with USC Provost's Professor Henry Jenkins as part of the USC Visions and Voices series on Jan. 31.

Tyler, who teaches a class on comic, graphic novels and sequential art at the University of Cincinnati, recently published a three-volume graphic novel "You'll Never Know," to tell the story of her father's experience as a World War II veteran and how it shaped her family's history.

The Hollywood Shuffle: Exploring Race and Ethnicity Behind and in Front of the Camera

March 29, 2013: The Hollywood Shuffle: Exploring Race and Ethnicity Behind and in Front of the Camera

USC Annenberg, in conjunction with the International Communication Association presents, The Hollywood Shuffle: Exploring Race and Ethnicity Behind and in Front of the Camera, a panel discussion moderated by associate professor Stacy Smith at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Smith lead a discussion on the underrepresentation of minorities in the entertainment industry with leading scholars and industry players. Joining Prof. Smith was Darnell Hunt, Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, Russell Robinson, the Distinguished Haas Chair in LGBT Equity Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, Ava DuVernay, winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for "Middle of Nowhere," and Tim Story, director, writer and producer of "Fantastic Four," "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer," and "Think Like a Man."

 Based on Robinson and Hunt's work on casting, anti-discrimination norms, and racial realities in Los Angeles, this panel discussed the in's and out's of Hollywood's type casting and lack of diversity behind the lens. DuVernay and Story gave the industry point of view from their journey to Hollywood success.

For more on Stacy Smith: http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/SmithS.aspx

For more on Darnell Hunt: http://sociology.ucla.edu/professors/DARNELL%20MONTEZ%20HUNT/?id=38

For more on Russell Robinson: http://law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=14282

For more on Ava DuVernay: http://avaduvernay.com/

Philip M. Napoli: Audiences as Consumers, Audiences as Citizens

For decades, audience exposure to media was how media performance was measured in the commercial marketplace. Recently, the concept of audience engagement has eclipsed exposure. What does engagement mean, and how is it measured? For media initiatives with social, civic and cultural missions -- which conceive of audiences as citizens, not just consumers -- how might measures of engagement be adapted to measure impact? The talk launches the Lear Center's new Measuring Media: Impact and Engagement series.

Philip M. Napoli, who has testified before Congress and the FCC on media policy issues, is a professor of communication and media management in the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University. His books include Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 4 pm
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Issues of Justice, Discrimination and Gender in International Sports

March 7, 2013: Issues of Justice, Discrimination and Gender in International Sports

USC Annenberg's Institute of Sports, Media & Society presents its second annual USC Conference on Sports. This panel, moderated by Rook Campbell, Lecturer in Sports and Public Diplomacy, USC Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy, featured commentary from:

Anaïs Bohuon, Faculty, Paris Sud 11 STAPS

Shari Dworkin, Vice Chair, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco

Media, Gender and Sports: Image, Representation and Title IX

March 6, 2013: Media, Gender and Sports: Image, Representation and Title IX

USC Annenberg's Institute of Sports, Media & Society presents its second annual USC Conference on Sports. This panel, moderated by Henry Puente, California State University, Fullerton, featured commentary from:


Mary Jo Kane, Professor of Sport Sociology; Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sports, University of Minnesota


Mike Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California


Cheryl Cooky, Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology and Women's Studies Program, Purdue University

Title IX to 2013: Perspectives on Gender and Sports in the New Millennium

March 7, 2013: Title IX to 2013: Perspectives on Gender and Sports in the New Millennium

As part of The Sports and Social Change Speakers Series Sponsored by Nike, a panel moderated by USC Annenberg Professor Dan Durbin featured:

Donna Lopiano, president and founder of Sports Management Resources; former CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation (1992-2007); Recently named one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports" by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has also listed her as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Sports."

Lindsay Soto, Anchor of "NFL Total Access" on the NFL Network, host and reporter for NFL Network programs

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People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories

Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington moderated a panel on the portrayals of people with disabilities in television and film on Feb. 11 at the Writers Guild of America, West.

"People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories" featured the guest speakers Ben Lewin, writer and director of "The Sessions"; Margaret Nagle, writer and producer of "Warm Springs"; Eric Guggenheim, writer and co-producer for "Parenthood"; David Radcliff, writer and member of WGA Committee for Writers with Disabilities; Auti Angel, actress in the docudrama series "Push Girls"; and Ann Neville-Jan, an associate professor of occupational science and therapy at the University of Southern California who gave the keynote address.

The panel was a collaboration between HH&S and the Writers With Disabilities Committee and the Diversity Department of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW).

Ready To Share -- Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity

This companion video to the full panel discussions features NY Times correspondent Rick Karr hosting a one-hour summary of the landmark RTS conference with additional interviews.

Election 2012: Now What? with Marty Kaplan

Peer-led Learning and Teaching in Osher (PLATO) presents: "ELECTION 2012: Now What?"

Marty Kaplan has done it all, seen it all and commented on most all of it, most recently on the Bill Moyers show. Among his accomplishments, Marty is a professor a USC at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, was Vice-President Walter F. Mondale's chief screenwriter, worked at Walt Disney Studios for 12 years, and created and hosted Air America Radio's So What Else Is News?.

Championing Women and Diversity in Communication & Leadership

Thursday, January 24, 2013

USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, in partnership with Ms. Magazine, presented a networking reception and forum for students and young alumni to explore career possibilities and discuss why it is important to ensure all aspects of diversity are represented in the leadership of media organizations. Special guests included Jacqueline Hernandez, Chief Operating Officer, Telemundo Media, Gail Berman, Co-Owner & Founding Partner, BermanBraun; Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, Gerrick Kennedy, Los Angeles Times music writer and NABJ emerging journalist of the year, and Erika Crespo, Executive Editor of social media company Fifty & Five. Research presentations by Johanna Blakley, Norman Lear Center research director, and Cinny Kennard, senior fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.

Storybus Tours: Close Encounters at NASA JPL (edited)

Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington led a group of writers and producers to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory facility in Pasadena on Oct. 25, 2012, for an exclusive look at how climate change is affecting the planet and people's lives.

The group met with engineers, scientists and visual artists—who discussed everything from the impact of global warming on forest ecosystems to new sources of sustainable energy—and saw in real-time how an armada of NASA satellites keep track of Earth's vital signs.

The trip offered writers and producers a chance to be inspired and informed when it comes to crafting realistic, compelling drama about one of the most vital issues facing our planet today.

Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy: Kathleen Fitzpatrick

As part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy initiative, the USC Office of Research and the Norman Lear Center present Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College for her talk, titled "The Humanities in and for the Digital Age."

The spread of digital technologies has presented scholars in the humanities with some extraordinary opportunities, as well as a few challenges, not least for their modes of communicating with one another. This talk will explore some of the changes taking place in the humanities today and their implications for scholars and their institutions. How will our ways of thinking about scholarly communication change as we do more and more of our work on digital platforms?

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (currently on leave), Pomona College. She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, published in 2011 by NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online, and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons.

WHAT MATTERS TO ME AND WHY with Martin Kaplan

Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan was the first speaker of the spring 2013 lecture series, What Matters to Me & Why, co-sponsored by the USC Office of Religious Life.

Read the transcript at http://learcenter.org/pdf/whatmatterstome.pdf

What Matters to Me and Why is a program that encourages reflection about values, beliefs and motivations. It aims to help students and others better understand the lives and inspirations of those who shape the University. Presenters are encouraged to talk about choices made, difficulties encountered and commitments solidified. They are also free to choose any other topic that fits their definition of "what matters to me and why."
Wednesday, January 23, 2013; University Park Campus; Ground Zero Performance Cafe

CCLP Washington, DC policy forum: Media Ownership and the Public Interest

The University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative presented a discussion with industry leaders and top policymakers on media ownership and the public interest. The event took place on Thursday, Jan. 24 from 2:00-4:30 p.m ET at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

On Twitter? Follow @USC_CCLP and @NewAmericaOTI for updates.

Participants
Welcome Remarks
Mark Lloyd
Director, Media Policy Institute, New America Foundation

Introduction
Wade Henderson
President, Leadership Conference

Speakers
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) (invited)
Member, U.S. Senate

Senator Bobby Rush (D-IL) (invited)
Member, U.S. Senate

Panel
Craig Aaron
President, Free Press

Bernie Lunzer
President, The Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America

Jane Mago
Executive Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters

Steven Waldman
Visiting Senior Media Policy Scholar
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Moderator
Adam Clayton Powell, III
Senior Fellow, Center on Communication Leadership, University of Southern California
Policy and University Fellow, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California

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Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy Presents Martha Russell

As part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy initiative, the USC Office of Research and the Norman Lear Center present Martha Russell, Executive Director, Media X at Stanford University, speaking on: "A Jazz Band, Two Large Pizzas and the Art of Successful Failures."

Dynamic intellectual and entrepreneurial environments require two essential ingredients: a belief in the upside potential and the permission to experiment. The goal of creative collaborations is to do something together that neither could do independently. Like a jazz band -- each instrumentalist is a specialist yet the combination of their sounds makes music. One rule of thumb for nurturing entrepreneurial activities is that they are likely to creatively morph four or five times before their ultimate expression. Another is that the team developing the new idea should be small enough to have dinner together with two large pizzas. Creative interdisciplinary collaborations, like entrepreneurial startups, must abide by the five rules of failing forward. Dr. Russell will talk about failures, successes, and successful failures in building creative collaborations between business folks and academics.

Steven J. Ross—Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at USC and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of several books, including Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 1998) and Movies and American Society. He will talk about his most recent book, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, which received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Film Scholars Award (the academic equivalent of an Oscar) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett will introduce the evening, followed by a conversation with Ross moderated by Marty Kaplan, the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society and Director of the Norman Lear Center.

In Hollywood Left and Right, Ross tells a story about the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsize influence on American politics. Through a discussion of compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema, like Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper and more varied than most people would imagine.

"Hollywood Left and Right is nonfiction at its best: entertaining and engaging, probing and provocative, detailed and comprehensive in coverage, multifaceted and far-ranging in its treatment, objective and balanced, appropriately paced in covering a complex, big story."—Stephen Roulac, New York Journal of Books.

The Provost's Writers Series highlights the extraordinary talents of USC authors. The series provides opportunities for students and the community to engage with USC authors, learn about the incredible diversity of their work and celebrate the written word.

USC Annenberg Innovation Lab "Think and Do Tank"

On Sept. 14, the Annenberg Innovation Lab convened executives
from television news and technology companies to figure out what the future
of TV news should look like.

Read coverage of the event here: http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/121004TVNews.aspx

Wallis Annenberg Hall Groundbreaking Celebration

USC Annenberg is ushering in a new era of digital media education, communication and production with the groundbreaking of a visionary new building and the launch of a $150 million fundraising initiative.

On Nov. 8, 2012, USC welcomed trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of USC Annenberg to campus for a ceremony marking the beginning of the initiative. Funds raised will pay for capital projects to enhance Wallis Annenberg Hall -- labs, studios and technology -- as well as student scholarships, fellowships, chaired professorships and funding for start-ups led by students and faculty.

Plans for the new 88,000-square-foot, five-floor building, scheduled to open in the fall of 2014, call for a four-story atrium with a rooftop skylight and multistory digital media tower and a fully converged, 20,000-square-foot newsroom that will allow students to share and publish from multiple sources to any medium. Television, radio and direct-to-Web vodcast studios will each be multipurpose and allow publishing to multiple platforms.

Planning for the building was initiated by a $50 million lead gift from The Annenberg Foundation at the direction of Wallis Annenberg, the foundation's chairman, president and CEO.

Road to the White House 2012: California Ballot Proposition 35 on Human Trafficking

Attendees at CCLP's Road to the White House panel discussion on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, discovered that there are divergent opinions of Proposition 35, a California ballot initiative intended to strengthen human trafficking laws.

Featured panelists included Chris Kelly, founder of the Safer California Foundation and former Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook, D'Lita Miller, a trafficking survivor and Family Support and Outreach Coordinator at Saving Innocence, and John Vanek, a retired Lieutenant who managed the San Jose Police Department Human Trafficking Task Force. CCLP Research Director Mark Latonero, an expert on the role of technology and trafficking, moderated the forum.

USC Annenberg CCLP Technology & Human Trafficking Initiative

USC Annenberg report reveals mobile as new battleground in struggle against sex trafficking: https://technologyandtrafficking.usc.edu/

LOS ANGELES, November 13, 2012 — Mobile phones and devices are now being used to traffic minors for commercial sex in the United States. They are among numerous digital channels -- including popular social networking sites and online classifieds -- facilitating the exploitation of children, according to a newly published report from the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

The Rise of Mobile and the Diffusion of Technology-Facilitated Trafficking is the latest CCLP research report on the intersection of technology and human trafficking, and the follow-up to CCLP's pioneering 2011 report, Human Trafficking Online. Drawing from a series of first-hand interviews with law enforcement officials and an analysis of mobile phone data, the report urges policymakers, business leaders, law enforcement, and social service providers to develop innovative solutions to technology-facilitated trafficking.

"Increasingly, the business of human trafficking is taking place online and over mobile phones," explains CCLP Research Director Mark Latonero, Ph.D. "Mobile devices allow traffickers to expand their criminal networks in new ways. At the same time, these technologies can be used to target traffickers, reach vulnerable communities, and raise public awareness."

"Technology contributes to both the problems and solutions regarding human trafficking," says Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.

"This report is an important contribution to the field and should be widely read by those seeking to develop solutions to the evil of human trafficking."

"It is clear that human trafficking has moved from the streets to online -- it is easier, less risky and more profitable," says Ernie Allen, President and CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. "This report is at the cutting edge of efforts to harness new technologies to protect children and will enhance understanding worldwide."

The report highlights the opportunity for private-sector technology companies and mobile carriers to work with the anti-trafficking community to develop meaningful solutions.

"Evidence-based research like this is vital in the fight against human trafficking, because it will open the door to innovative new approaches to combat the problem that would never before have been possible," says Samantha Doerr, Public Affairs Manager for Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit.

Courtney Bowman, Civil Liberties Engineer at Palantir Technologies, adds "this report...reminds us that technology is not developed in a vacuum [and] technologists too have a role to play in considering the social, cultural, legal, and constitutional implications of their craft."

The report's recommendations include: 1) developing a comprehensive strategy to address human trafficking occurring on multiple digital platforms including mobile; 2) training law enforcement and social service providers; and 3) encouraging public officials to place human trafficking high on their policy-making agendas.

"This report reflects our center's commitment to the use of technology to improve society, and breaks new ground in the area of human trafficking," says CCLP Founder and Director Geoffrey Cowan. "We look forward to continuing to work with a wide range of colleagues to find new ways for technology, and particularly mobile technology, to help rather than to harm, society."

For more information about the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, visit communicationleadership.usc.edu.

Vote For My Story: Political Narratives and the 2012 Election

Stories have been used throughout human history to teach lessons, establish social values and condense complex problems. Scholars are gaining new insights into why these stories have so much power, learning how and why our brains are "wired" to perceive the world through digestible narratives. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a panel featuring three distinguished thinkers, George Lakoff, John Romano and Joyce Appleby, exploring these issues just prior to the 2012 national elections, shedding light on how stories shape our political understanding. This event was sponsored by USC's Visions & Voices.

USC Visions & Voices: Vote For My Story - Joyce Appleby on New Narratives for Women in Politics

Stories have been used throughout human history to teach lessons, establish social values and condense complex problems. Scholars are gaining new insights into why these stories have so much power, learning how and why our brains are "wired" to perceive the world through digestible narratives. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a panel featuring three distinguished thinkers, George Lakoff, John Romano and Joyce Appleby, exploring these issues just prior to the 2012 national elections, shedding light on how stories shape our political understanding.

USC Visions & Voices: Vote For My Story - John Romano & Joyce Appleby

Stories have been used throughout human history to teach lessons, establish social values and condense complex problems. Scholars are gaining new insights into why these stories have so much power, learning how and why our brains are "wired" to perceive the world through digestible narratives. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a panel featuring three distinguished thinkers, George Lakoff, John Romano and Joyce Appleby, exploring these issues just prior to the 2012 national elections, shedding light on how stories shape our political understanding.

USC Visions & Voices: Vote For My Story - Joyce Appleby on Romney & the Gospel of Wealth

Stories have been used throughout human history to teach lessons, establish social values and condense complex problems. Scholars are gaining new insights into why these stories have so much power, learning how and why our brains are "wired" to perceive the world through digestible narratives. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a panel featuring three distinguished thinkers, George Lakoff, John Romano and Joyce Appleby, exploring these issues just prior to the 2012 national elections, shedding light on how stories shape our political understanding.

USC Visions & Voices: Vote For My Story - Joyce Appleby on Early American Elections

Stories have been used throughout human history to teach lessons, establish social values and condense complex problems. Scholars are gaining new insights into why these stories have so much power, learning how and why our brains are "wired" to perceive the world through digestible narratives. Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan moderates a panel featuring three distinguished thinkers, George Lakoff, John Romano and Joyce Appleby, exploring these issues just prior to the 2012 national elections, shedding light on how stories shape our political understanding.

TV Writers, Medical Experts Discuss "Crazy Stupid Cancer"

Hollywood, Health & Society brought together leading TV writers and producers and medical experts for a panel discussion titled "Crazy Stupid Cancer: Scripting Compelling Cancer Storylines for the Screen" on March 14 at the Writers Guild of America, West.

"We're so pleased to bring together this incredible panel of experts to talk to us about one of the most important health topics of our time," said HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington in her introductory remarks. The participants included Dr. Lisa Richardson, an oncologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Vijay Trisal, a surgical oncologist and cancer researcher at the City of Hope National Medical Center; Darlene Hunt, the creator and executive producer of Showtime's "The Big C"; Jessica Queller, a writer-producer for The CW's "Gossip Girl" and author of "Pretty Is What Changes"; and Patti Carr, co-executive producer of "90210," which also airs on The CW.

Trojan Family Weekend 2012 at USC Annenberg

Oct. 19, 2012: Meet Dean Ernest J. Wilson III, School of Journalism Director Geneva Overholser, faculty, staff and hear about the plans for USC Annenberg during one of the highlights of Trojan Family Weekend.

ALOUD Excerpt: Marty Kaplan & Rick Hasen on Party Lines

Lear Center director Marty Kaplan moderates this panel of distinguished thinkers who consider the uptick in political partisanship and whether we can and should take steps to move from red and blue states back to the United States. This event was part of the ALOUD series of lectures and events sponsored by the Los Angeles Library Foundation. PANELISTS: Rick Hasen (The Voting Wars); Connie Rice (attorney); Leslie Berestein Rojas (Emerging Communities Reporter, KPCC).

ALOUD Excerpt: Marty Kaplan Kicks Off the Panel with Partisan Anecdotes

Lear Center director Marty Kaplan moderates this panel of distinguished thinkers who consider the uptick in political partisanship and whether we can and should take steps to move from red and blue states back to the United States. This event was part of the ALOUD series of lectures and events sponsored by the Los Angeles Library Foundation. PANELISTS: Rick Hasen (The Voting Wars); Connie Rice (attorney); Leslie Berestein Rojas (Emerging Communities Reporter, KPCC).

ALOUD Excerpt: Marty Kaplan & Connie Rice on Compromise and Political Deals

Lear Center director Marty Kaplan moderates this panel of distinguished thinkers who consider the uptick in political partisanship and whether we can and should take steps to move from red and blue states back to the United States. This event was part of the ALOUD series of lectures and events sponsored by the Los Angeles Library Foundation. PANELISTS: Rick Hasen (The Voting Wars); Connie Rice (attorney); Leslie Berestein Rojas (Emerging Communities Reporter, KPCC).

ALOUD Excerpt: Marty Kaplan & Leslie Rojas on Bipartisan Gridlock and the Dream Act

Lear Center director Marty Kaplan moderates this panel of distinguished thinkers who consider the uptick in political partisanship and whether we can and should take steps to move from red and blue states back to the United States. This event was part of the ALOUD series of lectures and events sponsored by the Los Angeles Library Foundation. PANELISTS: Rick Hasen (author, "The Voting Wars"); Connie Rice (attorney); Leslie Berestein Rojas (Emerging Communities Reporter, KPCC).