Newly appointed CCLP senior fellows are:
Narda Zacchino (pictured, top), an author and award-winning journalist who served as a top editor at the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. During her 31 years at the Los Angeles Times, she was a reporter, government and politics editor, Sacramento bureau chief, editor of the Orange County edition, deputy managing editor and associate editor and vice president. She was deputy editor of the San Francisco Chronicle from 2001 until 2007, when she left to co-write a book on NFL star/Army Ranger Pat Tillman with his mother Mary. Zacchino was an editor at the Center for Investigative Reporting before co-founding Time Capsule Press, whose inaugural book, The LA Lakers: 50 Amazing Years in the City of Angels, was published in October 2009. She is an editorial and business consultant at Truthdig, a daily news Web site and is currently working on a new book about California. As a senior fellow, Zacchino will work on programs exploring the role of media in democracy with a focus on state government financial crises.
In addition to the new appointments, current CCLP senior fellows include Neal Baer, Cinny Kennard, Adam Clayton Powell III, Kit Rachlis, Richard Reeves, Orville Schell, Derek Shearer and David Westphal.
“Each of our remarkable senior fellows is finding ways to navigate some of the most challenging issues facing democracy in this era of profound changes in culture and technology,” said Geoffrey Cowan, university professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. “We are thrilled that Jeremy Curtin, Dan Glickman and Narda Zacchino will be joining the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy to help instruct students, engage in public discourse and advance research efforts in these areas.”
About the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy
Based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy conducts research and organizes courses, programs, seminars and symposia for scholars, students, policymakers and working professionals to prepare future leaders in journalism, communication and other related fields. CCLP focuses its activities in two areas: 1) The Role of Media in Democracy and 2) Communication Leadership. Current projects include: Public Policy and the Future of News; New Models for News; The Constitution and the Press; Media and Political Discourse; Children’s Media and Ethics; Women and Communication Leadership; and Photographic Empowerment.
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