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Geoffrey Cowan is the dean of the USC Annenberg School
for Communication which includes a School of Journalism and a
School of Communication. He has been the dean since November
1996. In addition, he is a professor of journalism and law in
Annenberg's School of Journalism, and jointly holds a professorial
appointment in the USC Law School. Prior to becoming dean, Cowan
served as director of the Voice of America (VOA). He was appointed
to the position by then-president Bill Clinton in March 1994.
In that capacity he served as the 22nd director of the VOA, the
international broadcasting service of the U.S. Information Agency,
broadcasting nearly 900 hours of programming in 52 languages,
to a weekly audience of about 100 million. He also served as
associate director of the USIA and as director of the International
Broadcasting Bureau, with responsibility for WORLDNET TV and
Radio & TV Marti as well as VOA. For the previous 20 years,
Cowan taught communication law and policy at the University of
California, Los Angeles and was founding director of UCLA's Center
for Communication Policy. Concurrently with his teaching at UCLA,
Cowan worked as a television producer, receiving an Emmy Award
as executive producer of the movie MARK TWAIN AND ME, which was
voted the Outstanding Prime Time Program for Children by the
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. From 1979-84, he was
a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, playing a key role in the development of National
Public Radio. His radio play on the Pentagon Papers battle, starring
Ed Asner and Marsha Mason, won CPB's Gold Medal for Excellence
in Best Live Entertainment. Cowan served as chair of California
Common Cause, and he was chairman of the Los Angeles commission
that wrote the city's ethics code, cited as a model for the nation.
Other civic activities included key roles in the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund, the American Jewish Committee, Children Now, and
the National Council on Families and Television. Cowan is a graduate
of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Orville Schell is dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School
of Journalism. From his days as a student of Far Eastern history
at Harvard College, through his UC Berkeley master's degree and
Ph.D. (abd) in Chinese history, to his latest work on China,
Hong Kong and Tibet, Schell has virtually devoted his professional
life to reporting on and writing about Asia. Author of 14 books
- nine about China, including Virtual Tibet, Mandate of Heaven,
and Discos and Democracy - Schell has also written widely about
Asia for Wired, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker,
Harper's, Newsweek and other national magazines. He is the recipient
of a Guggenheim and an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship
and numerous writing prizes. Schell has also served as correspondent
and consultant for several PBS Frontline documentaries as well
as an Emmy award-winning program on China for CBS' 60 Minutes.
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