John Lansing to join USC Annenberg as Senior Fellow

John Lansing, President and CEO of NPR, will join the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) in March as a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Washington Center.

"With his background as the President of the Scripps Networks, overseeing U.S. International Broadcasting as the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, and then running National Public Radio, Lansing brings a wealth of experience and contacts to the USC Annenberg School's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy," said CCLP's Director Geoffrey Cowan. "We look forward to working with him on a wide variety of issues involving news at the local, national and international level."

Lansing joins more than 50 current CCLP Senior Fellows; a full list is at https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/fellows/senior-fellows/

"I'm looking forward to this next chapter of my work in supporting excellence in journalism following my retirement from NPR at the end of March," Lansing said.

Lansing will join CCLP's Washington, DC team based at the new USC Capitol Campus, which opened last year. In Washington, CCLP presents monthly forums on subjects including media, democratic resilience, national security, public diplomacy and AI and election cybersecurity, and a monthly Africa-US trans-Atlantic dialogue.

"We look forward to welcoming John in March," said Adam Clayton Powell III, Director of USC Annenberg CCLP Washington Programs. "His experience and expertise in journalism and public diplomacy will enable him to be a strong contributor to work in both of those fields, and more."

Lansing's predecessor as NPR President, Jarl Mohn, is a member of the CCLP Advisory Board. A full list of Board members is at https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/about/advisory-board/

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