Philip Seib, the director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and professor of journalism, public diplomacy, and International Relations will speak from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 18 in Holt Chapel.
Seib’s research interests include the effects of news coverage on foreign policy, particularly conflict and terrorism issues. He is author or editor of numerous books, including “Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy,” “The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict,” “Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War,” “Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War,” “New Media and the New Middle East,” “The Al Jazeera Effect” and “Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Seib is also the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy and co-editor of the journal Media, War and Conflict, published by Sage. In 2010, he was named Scholar of the Year by the International Studies Association for his contributions to the field of international communication.
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was established in 2003 as a partnership between the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. It is a joint research, analysis and professional training organization dedicated to furthering the study and practice of global public diplomacy.