MEDIA IMPACT PROJECT
  • ABOUT
    • MISSION
    • OUR TEAM
    • WHAT WE DO
    • FELLOWS & PARTNERS
  • PROJECTS
    • AFRICA NARRATIVE
    • ACTION CAMPAIGNS
    • CHARITABLE GIVING ON TV
    • FILM DIPLOMACY
    • IDEOLOGY & ENTERTAINMENT
    • IMMIGRATION ON TV
    • JOURNALISM STUDIES >
      • VIRTUAL REALITY
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Are You What You Watch?
    • Africa in the Media
    • CASE STUDIES
    • IMMIGRATION ON TV
    • METRICS GUIDES FOR JOURNALISTS
    • VIRTUAL REALITY
  • BLOG
  • NEWS & EVENTS
  • CONTACT
  • ABOUT
    • MISSION
    • OUR TEAM
    • WHAT WE DO
    • FELLOWS & PARTNERS
  • PROJECTS
    • AFRICA NARRATIVE
    • ACTION CAMPAIGNS
    • CHARITABLE GIVING ON TV
    • FILM DIPLOMACY
    • IDEOLOGY & ENTERTAINMENT
    • IMMIGRATION ON TV
    • JOURNALISM STUDIES >
      • VIRTUAL REALITY
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Are You What You Watch?
    • Africa in the Media
    • CASE STUDIES
    • IMMIGRATION ON TV
    • METRICS GUIDES FOR JOURNALISTS
    • VIRTUAL REALITY
  • BLOG
  • NEWS & EVENTS
  • CONTACT

OUR TEAM

Marty Kaplan, Director, The Norman Lear Center
Johanna Blakley, Managing Director, Norman Lear Center
Erica Rosenthal, Director of Research
Erica Watson-Currie, Research Associate
Kristin Jung, Research Specialist
Adam Amel Rogers, Project Administrator
Veronica Jauriqui, Project Administrator
Emily Peterson, Senior Research Analyst
Dana Weinstein, Project Assistant
Tony Pham, Budget/Business Analyst
Mark Leong, Business Manager
Shawn Van Valkenburgh, Project Associate

THE ADVISORY BOARD

The Media Impact Board includes leaders in journalism, public relations, transmedia, marketing, psychology, social network analysis, cyber infrastructure, and social change.
Richard Addy,
Addy-Kassova Audience Strategy
Thomas Baekdal, Baekdal.com
Emily Bell, Columbia University
John Seely Brown, USC Provost’s Office
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
Laura Evans, Scripps
Henry Jenkins, USC Annenberg
Avinash Kaushik, Google
Olivia Ma, Google Plus
Amy Mitchell, Pew Research Center
Geneva Overholser, Women's Media Center
Aron Pilhofer, The Guardian
James G. Robinson, The New York Times
Deb Roy, MIT
Rachel Schutt, News Corp
Ethan Zuckerman, MIT
The Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project researches how entertainment and news influence our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and actions. We work with researchers, the film and TV industry, nonprofits, and news organizations, and share our research with the public. We are part of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.