Adam Clayton Powell III To Join USC Annenberg Local Broadcast News Initiative.Business/Photo Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.011403/bb7 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2003 Adam Clayton Powell III Adam Clayton Powell III (born July 17, 1946 to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Hazel Scott) is Vice Provost for Globalization at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation's Engineering , a leading broadcast reporter, executive, author, and thoughtful analyst of new media technology, has been appointed to play a leading role in the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Annenberg Local Broadcast News Initiative, Dean Geoffrey Cowan Geoffrey Cowan is former director of the Voice of America and current Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. External links
To help launch the initiative, Powell will research new ways that broadcast and other news media can increase the coverage of local communities. His research will cover best practices in current local news coverage and new opportunities in cable television, radio, broadband, digital broadcasting and other technologies. Powell will write a series of papers as the basis for discussions around the country on these questions. In fall 2003, he will teach courses in broadcast journalism and new technology as a visiting professor at USC Annenberg's School of Journalism. "Excellent local news broadcasts offer one of the most important instruments for the creation of an electorate and a community that is enlightened and connected. But while there are many examples of outstanding local news and public affairs programming
"This is an ambitious, exciting project, and USC Annenberg is exactly the right school to tackle this challenge," Powell said. "It combines the academic, research, and professional strengths of journalism and communication with the opportunities presented by the largest local news laboratory in the U.S., Southern California. I am delighted to be working with Geoff Cowan, Michael Parks, and the Annenberg faculty in this important endeavor." Powell comes to USC Annenberg from Howard University's WHUT-TV, where he served as general manager of the broadcast and cable television channels. Previously he served as Vice President/Technology and Programs for the Freedom Forum. In his 15 years at the Freedom Forum, Powell developed and supervised new media conferences and seminars and training programs on Internet- and computer-based media and information technology for journalists, educators, policy makers, and researchers. He created the weekly "Newseum Radio" public radio magazine program and a 24-hour Internet audio service. He also led a series of programs focusing on media in Africa The media in Africa are expanding rapidly due to advances in telecommunications especially mobile phones and the internet, recent growth has taken place in leaps and bounds. By learning from developed countries, Africa has not been forced to 'reinvent the wheel'. . Powell was a reporter and producer at WCBS-TV in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and later spent several years with CBS News as a manager of radio and television news for the network, covering events ranging from manned space flights and elections to urban unrest and the Iran hostage crisis Iran hostage crisis, in U.S. history, events following the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by Iranian students on Nov. 4, 1979. The overthrow of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi of Iran by an Islamic revolutionary government earlier in the year had led to a . Earlier, in the 1970s, he was assistant news director and morning anchor at WRVR New York, then a news/talk station, and then was news director of New York's all news station, WINS, which became New York's #1 news station under his leadership. In the 1980s, Powell served as news director of the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. News/Westinghouse satellite news channels and then as vice president of news at National Public Radio. "For the last 25 years, Adam Powell has been at the forefront of covering urban communities and our changing population and using new technology to do so," said Michael Parks, director of USC Annenberg's School of Journalism. "A paramount task for journalism today is to promote a civic reengagement through more vigorous and more innovative news coverage. The news that happens in your community is what matters most to you. And exploring new ways to do this and sharing best practices are both critical." The Annenberg Initiative, announced in September, seeks to engage broadcasters, public policy leaders, citizens groups, educators and scholars in a comprehensive effort to transform local news. "We will be inspired by the recognition that innovation remains possible; that new technologies and new sources of funding, and new forms of private and government initiatives and partnerships can always create new opportunities," said Cowan when he announced the initiative. "During recent decades, for example, the world has been enriched enormously by the creation of new or greatly enhanced programs and broadcasting services -- ranging from `Nightline' to C-SPAN to National Public Radio to CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. . We will try to identify and help create similarly important innovations at the local level." Funding for the initiative is made possible by support to the USC Annenberg School from the Annenberg Foundation, based in St. Davids, Pennsylvania St. Davids is a community in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. It is served by its own train station. The community, on the Pennsylvania Main Line, was named for St. Davids Church, an 18th century church in the area that was in turn named for St. . Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , the USC Annenberg School for Communication The USC Annenberg School for Communication comprises the USC Annenberg School of Communication and the USC Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). USC Annenberg was established in 1971 through the support of Ambassador Walter H. is among the nation's leading institutions devoted to the study of journalism and communication, and their impact on politics, culture and society. With an enrollment of more than 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students, USC Annenberg offers B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in journalism, communication, and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most . Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.011403/bb7 |
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