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Nick Cull is quoted in a Times article, "How TV is making the world a better place," regarding the power of television to promote global change. Cull argues that the exercise of voting for TV show contestants may be good practice for democracy.

The October 16 World Politics Review feature on Reinventing Diplomacy consisted of three articles, each by a public diplomacy researcher with close ties to the Center: CPD fellows Daryl Copeland and Cynthia Schneider, and former CPD director Joshua Fouts.

MPD Director Nick Cull is author of the featured opinion piece in the October issue of Layalina's Perspectives. His article, 'USIA: Gone But Not Forgotten,' marks the tenth anniversary of that agency's dissolution, and describes the impact of that decision on American public diplomacy.

MPD Director Nick Cull was quoted by Politico in a piece on the British press and their relationship with Obama. While the British place great emphasis on the 'special relationship,' Cull notes that the view of the relationship on this side of the Atlantic is decidedly lukewarm.

Last month, USC Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni and Rob Asghar, a USC Center on Public Diplomacy University Fellow, met with officials from the U.S. Department of State to discuss the Pakistani diaspora community and to explore a relationship with CPD. Read more...

CPD Director Philip Seib is quoted in Walrus Magazine's article 'The Most Hated Name in News,' an examination of the Al Jazeera English channel. The article also cites a CPD study of the controversial channel, which found that AJE viewership promoted cross-cultural discourse.

The Heritage Foundation blog The Foundry reports on a recent discussion hosted by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in Washington, DC and recommends the newly published Toward A New Public Diplomacy edited by CPD Director, Philip Seib, as an instruction manual for the new administration.

CPD director Philip Seib's article “Evaluating Al Hurra and Looking Toward an American Public Diplomacy,” appeared in the inaugural issue of the Arabic-language journal Afaq al Mustaqbal (Horizon of the Future) published by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.

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