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• June 26, 2008: CPD Advisory Board member and CEO of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, launches live outreach program for U.S. military families.
• May 23, 2008: CPD's blog on Public Diplomacy and the U.S. elections
produced in collaboration with FPA, cited in the International Herald Tribune.
• May 20, 2008: Mission of US-funded broadcasts in Cuba debated
CPD Faculty Fellow, Nick Cull, quoted in AP story on US-funded broadcasts in Cuba
• May 7, 2008: China's Next-Generation Nationalists
CPD Fellow Joshua Kurlantzick writes in the Los Angeles Times about the new youth-led Chinese nationalist movement.
• May 7, 2008: Doha Calling
CPD and its Al-Jazeera English Project were recently highlighted in an article by Erin Sullivan for the City Paper Online.
• May 5, 2008: The Chinese Student Frontline in PRC's Olympic Public Diplomacy
CPD Fellow, Monroe Price, blogs in Huffington Post on Chinese students' role in Public Diplomacy
• May 5, 2008: Hope is a Tattered Flag
CPD Advisory Board member Markos Kounalakis co-authors Hope is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era.
• February 11, 2008: Communciation Breakdown: Losing the War of Ideas
Prof. Nicholas Cull featured on America Abroad Radio, discussing the history of America’s public diplomacy successes and failures in the 20th century.
• January 18, 2008: Finally: A Degree in Public Diplomacy
William Fisher of the American Chronicle discusses USC's graduate program in Public Diplomacy.
• December 26, 2007: Marching into Cyberspace
CPD Research Associate, Craig Hayden quoted in Council on Foreign Relations analysis of government-run blogs.
• December 6, 2007: A UK Perspective on Public Diplomacyand Cultural Relations in a Time of Conflict -- Speech by Martin Davidson at the University of Iowa
• November 28, 2007: State Department dispatches virtual jazz ambassadors -- An article by Bob Brewin on the Virtual Vibe Jazz Festival held on October 26, 2007 by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy in association with US State Deptartment.
• November 11, 2007: The 'Nation Brand' Marketplace
Center Director, Joshua S. Fouts quoted in Council on Foreign Relations analysis of Nation Branding.
• October 30, 2007: "Diplomacy Island," by Melody Lutz,
  A review of the Center on Public Diplomacy's 'Public Diplomacy and Virtual Worlds' project.
• October 15, 2007: CPD Director Joshua S. Fouts quoted in Contribute Magazine about the MacArthur Foundation's support in studying Second Life and virtual worlds.

• November 8, 2007: Center receives grant from Lounsbery Foundation
• October 17, 2007: CPD Research Associate Shawn Powers and Mohammed el-Nawawy, Knight-Crane Chair of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte awarded Knight grant to research Al-Jazeera English.
• September 10, 2007: USC Center on Public Diplomacy to lead panel in Mexico City on virtual worlds’ role in making the global local. (42kb PDF).
• August 31, 2007: USC Center on Public Diplomacy Announces Assistant Director. (29kb PDF).
• August 24, 2007: Chermak Joins USC Center on Public Diplomacy as Public Diplomat in Residence. (37kb PDF).
• April 24, 2007: "USC Annenberg School for Communication Announces New Dean"
• March 16, 2007: "USC Center on Public Diplomacy Announces New Deputy Director" -- Sherine Badawi Walton to fill the newly created position of Deputy Director. (31kb PDF).
• November 15, 2006: "Popular Culture and U.S. Public Diplomacy" -- Former BBG Chairman Marc B. Nathanson's address to the USC Center on Public Diplomacy Advisory Board (24kb PDF).
• November 3, 2006: Joy Oaks Joins the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (34kb PDF)
• July 27, 2006: UN Officials Among Graduates of 2006 USC Summer Institute on Public Diplomacy (38kb PDF)
• July 17, 2006: USC Center on Public Diplomacy Welcomes New Advisory Board Members and Fellows (175kb PDF)


• June 27, 2006: Luce Foundation: Religion, Identity, & Global Governance (16kb PDF)
• May 10, 2006: Reinventing Public Diplomacy Through Games Winners (23kb PDF)
• May 4, 2006: Top U.S. Middle East Diplomat Joins USC Center on Public Diplomacy (26kb PDF)
• May 4, 2006: Canadian Tech Visionary to Join USC Center on Public Diplomacy for 2006-2007 (28kb PDF)