Critical Conversations

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As part of the Annenberg Intelligence series, Dean Willow Bay was in conversation with Mike Bass, the NBA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. He shared a glimpse into designing and implementing effective communication strategies, and the tough decisions...

The Google-funded USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative has held workshops for officials around the country, bracing them for cyberthreats. Now, they are channeling their efforts into helping voters.

Aone-of-a-kind endeavor to help elections officials in every state safeguard their systems against hacking is nearly complete, just months ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election....

Henry Jenkins has been a collector since childhood — everything from comics, to horror posters to books and papers. “We’re all surrounded by things that we’ve chosen to hold on to,” he said. “We curate our surroundings and to some degree we construct our memory around objects that weren’t made with us in mind and yet they become...

The world watched an American police officer murder a Black citizen in the vilest way while he cried, “I can’t breathe.”

Large-scale protests erupted as a result, not just across all our 50 states, but also across the globe in over a dozen countries. The scale and spread were notable despite a global pandemic that kept many at home. These are not images and memories that the world can...

The late Gil Scott-Heron once wrote that a song called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” It was. Those of us old enough to remember saw the assassinations of Kennedy-King-Kennedy, the horrors of the Vietnam war, the massacre at Kent State and all of the peaceful and more “spirited” rebellions play out on our TV screens in an era when we had to wait on it.

Today, we see things as...

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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have documented humanitarian crises around the globe. With their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement and the massacre that followed, they became the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

They have co-authored several books together, including A Path Appears and Half the Sky , which have...