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Robert Banks joins the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School as its U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence for the 2009-2010 term.

CPD Director Philip Seib was featured on the Michael Eric Dyson radio show to talk about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's performance as America's chief diplomat. Listen to the broadcast on the MED radio show web site.

CPD University Fellow Nicholas Cull will deliver the presentation "Public Diplomacy: What Should Korea Do?" on August 13, at the 2nd Korea Foundation International Conference on Nation Branding in Jeju, Korea.

CPD Director Philip Seib was cited extensively in a Miami Herald piece on President Obama's campaign to reach out to the global public through social media. To read the entire article click here.

CPD Director Philip Seib reviews Susan A. Brewer's book, "Why America Fights," in the Dallas Morning News.

CPD Director Philip Seib delivered the opening keynote entitled "Transnational Journalism, Public Diplomacy and Virtual States" at a July conference sponsored by the International Communication Association and the University of Melbourne.

CPD Director Philip Seib writes new op-ed in the Huffington Post, "Toward a More Imaginative U.S. Public Diplomacy."

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy's news aggregation (PDiN) was mentioned in an allAfrica.com article entitled "Ghana: Self Help Diplomacy - an Emerging Obama Doctrine Towards African Countries?"

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