March 13, 2009 -- Visiting Chair Andrew Cooper was interviewed by Al Jazeera English for a news special on Tibet. Cooper discussed celebrities and their popular support for Buddhism and the Tibet cause.

As part of his course entitled "International Broadcasting: Influence and Power in the Age of Information," CPD Research Associate Shawn Powers has launched the Global Media Monitor blog to monitor how different international broadcasters are covering and framing global events.

On January 29, 2009, Monroe Price, professor and director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School, delivered the keynote address at the opening night dinner of the 2009 Center on Public Diplomacy Spring Symposium, The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Public Diplomacy Triumph or Public Relations Spectacle?

On January 22, 2009 Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean of the U.S.C Annenberg School for Communication, led a roundtable discussion on his recent experiences as a member of the Presidential Transition Team for the Obama administration.

January 18, 2009 -- CPD Director, Geoffrey Wiseman, is quoted in San Francisco Chronicle article on the public diplomacy value of Barack Obama's election.

CPD Director, Geoffrey Wiseman and Andrew F. Cooper, CPD's 2009 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy are quoted in The Independent article:
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