While the technologies that power autonomous vehicles are rapidly improving, consumer sentiment and confidence is headed in the opposite direction.
In a Cox Automotive study released in August 2018, nearly half (49%) of all consumers surveyed said they would never buy a fully autonomous vehicle. That’s up from 30% just two years ago. The perception of autonomous vehicle safety has also...
On Friday, Nov. 2, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative had the pleasure of attending TheWrap’s Power Women Summit held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The theme of the summit was “The Road to 5050 By 2020,” and featured Q&A’s, breakout sessions and workshops that tackled the question, “How do we achieve gender balance by the year 2020?” Here are a few highlights from...
If current studies are correct, about half the people reading these words have listened to a podcast sometime this year.
Nielsen Insights reports that 124 million people in the U.S. have listened to a podcast in 2018. There are currently 525,000 active shows with over 18.5 million episodes. People walk around with dedicated podcast apps on their phones, and services like CastBox and...
How would you like to be running an automobile business today? How about a toy company? Media conglomerate? Hotels? Maybe own retail stores?
Virtually every client I work with is dealing with some form of disruption or change, and for many, it means the very survival of their business.
The management of disruption is a pervasive and phenomenally difficult challenge. If you're a...
Retail therapy has been a refuge for stressed-out consumers since the 1980s, but today, retailers need their own therapy to win over a new breed of Gen Z shoppers. Born between 1995 and 2010, they will represent 40% of consumers by 2020 and wield unprecedented influence on purchases made by both family and a wider community. They are known as Pivotals, Gen Y-fi, Screenagers or Gen Z. But no...
The Center for Health Journalism will welcome 22 journalists from around the nation on July 22 to the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism.
Billionaires buying newspapers, whether for vanity or public service, may be the best hope for the future of journalism.
The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism has awarded $30,000 in reporting grants from its new Impact Fund to help California journalists undertake ambitious explanatory and investigative reporting about health issues in the state’s underserved communities.