Mary G. Bitterman discussed her career in public broadcasting at a student roundtable moderated by Nicholas Cull.

Ms. Bitterman detailed her early career as Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority, Director of the East-West Center's Institute of Culture and Communication, and Director of Voice of America.

(l-r): Geoffrey Cowan, Manuel Castells, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Fernando Calderon, Ernesto Ottone.

Guest Speakers:
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil
• Fernando Calderon, the Regional Advisor for the United Nations Development Program in Latin America
• Ernesto Ottone, the Chief of the Strategic Analysis Unit of the President of Chile

John Brown, Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and author of the widely read Public Diplomacy Press Review met with faculty and students on October 25th from 4-5 in ASC 103. He spoke about such issues as the appointment of Karen Hughes as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and discussing his article A Failed Public Diplomat in which he critiques Hughes’ recent trip to the Middle East.

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Paradise Now is the story of two would-be Palestinian suicide bombers and their personal journey through this process. USC Public Diplomacy Professor Nicholas Cull held a discussion with director Hany Abu-Assad following the film.

"What Works in Public Diplomacy?" Numerous reports have put forth the clarion call asking this question. Distinguished speaker Dietram A. Scheufele, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visited USC to discuss the relevance of his work on the topic.

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"What Works in Public Diplomacy?" Distinguished speaker Robert Entman discussed the relevance of his work to the topic.

Robert M. Entman received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale and an M.P.P. in policy analysis from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently teaching at North Carolina State University's Department of Communication. His research and teaching interests focus on political communication and communication policy.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes and her deputy Dina Powell, the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, at the CPD offices.

The Annenberg School for Communication and the Center on Public Diplomacy were pleased to welcome two new faculty members in public diplomacy to USC, Drs. Nicholas Cull and Eytan Gilboa.

Nicholas Cull has recently accepted a tenured appointment as Professor of Public Diplomacy at USC where he will be directing the newly approved Master's in Public Diplomacy. Eytan Gilboa, based at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, will be a Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy for the fall 2005 semester and will teach a graduate public diplomacy course entitled "Media Diplomacy."