Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino shared her insights on advising the President, spotting trouble in advance and how government and business officials can better use the press to communicate with the public during her address at the Holt Distinguished Lecture hosted by the USC Price School of Public Read more…
View more photos here. View the highlight video below and the full video here. Read about the event here. Dana Perino Former White House Press Secretary Political Commentator Best-Selling Author Co-Host of Fox’s The Five The Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture, is a speaker’s series established by longtime Price Read more…
by Patricia Quintero Estades Dana Perino served as the 27th White House Press Secretary from September 2007 to January 2009, under President George W. Bush, becoming the first Republican woman to hold the position. The Bedrosian Center is excited to welcome Ms. Perino for the next installment of the Holt Lecture Series Read more…
Originally published on the USC Price website, February 11, 2015 Television icon LeVar Burton discussed how he’d like to see storytelling better integrated into education during a Jan. 28 Holt lecture series event presented by the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Read more…
Holt Distinguished Lecture A Conversation with LeVar Burton The Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture is a speaker’s series established by longtime Price School board of councilor’s member Dennis Holt (founding chairman and CEO of U.S. International Media) and his wife, Brooks. The Holt programs support prominent practitioners, influential policymakers, Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Discussions of margin of error don’t typically generate full-throated cheers, even at USC. But most lectures don’t usually feature Nate Silver, the country’s most famous statistician, author, and founder of the popular political blog FiveThirtyEight.com. On Friday at Bovard Auditorium, Silver regaled the audience with his usual diverse Read more…
Nate Silver detailed his transformation from ordinary statistician to modern-day election soothsayer in front of a USC audience Sept. 20 as part of the Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture Series, offered by the USC Price School of Public Policy’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise. Silver Read more…
by Nathaniel Haas originally published by the Daily Trojan on September 22, 2013 Famed statistician Nate Silver spoke to students and faculty in Bovard Auditorium on Friday morning in a presentation titled “Baseball and Politics are Data Driven.” Silver’s presentation was the first in a yearlong series of events made Read more…
Holt Distinguished Lecture: A Morning with Nate Silver September 20, 2013 11:00am to 12:00pm Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture presents: NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven Hosted by the USC Price Bedrosian Center on Governance Nate Silver, has become today’s leading statistician through his innovative analyses Read more…
Marc Sallinger for Neon Tommy reported on the recent Holt Lecture featuring statistician Nate Silver. Although Silver is an innovator leading the charge to change the world we live in, he is also very adamant on the negatives his work may portray. The social media revolution has caused vast amounts Read more…
Our upcoming Holt Lecture featuring Nate Silver was highlighted by LA Weekly! Being “America’s most popular statistician” sounds dubious, something like being “the smartest Jäger girl” or “the deepest Kardashian” — talk about damning with faint praise. But the odds have been in Nate Silver’s favor for quite some time. Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback Here at Bedrosian Center headquarters, hearts and calculators are aflutter with the news that Nate Silver is paying the U.S.C. campus a visit on Friday as part of the Holt Distinguished Lecture series. Silver is the statistics wunderkind whose uncannily accurate political predictions as a New York Times blogger earned Read more…
NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven. The Holt Lecture. Friday, September 20, 2013 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Bovard Auditorium Nate Silver has become today’s leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly Read more…
Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture Series February 13, 2013 5:00pm to 8:00pm 5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Welcome Reception 6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Lecture and Q&A 7:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. Book signing Books will be available for purchase at the event. ABOUT ROBERT A. CARO Read more…
Students Talk Back : A Weekly Politics and Public Policy Forum February 13, 2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm What is a politician’s legacy? What does legacy mean to a living politician? How do communication professionals build legacy? Featuring: JENNIFER I. HOELZER Principal, IOC Strategies Consultant on HBO’s VEEP Former Communications Director Read more…