Honoring the Best in Political TV

Winners of the 12th biennial Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism included PBS FRONTLINE, Jonathan Karl, Margaret Brennan, Jordan Klepper and Ben Collins. Awards went to work about disinformation and the threat to democracy. The National Press Club event aired live on CSPAN.

WATCH: Highlights from the Cronkite Awards

Changing the Narrative

Funders and advocates of narrative change often ask, How do we really know what strategies are working? Our latest report identifies 25 best practices.

READ: Read the final report

Statecraft Stories

For experts from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, powerful storytelling tools were the take-away from a four-day online workshop for the action-oriented think tank organized by Hollywood, Health & Society.

READ: Statecraft Stories Workshop

Breaking into Entertainment

NBCUniversal’s Creative Impact Lab aims to help aspiring creatives from under-resourced communities break into the media and entertainment industry. How well is it working? The Lear Center's Media Impact Project is evaluating its efforts to move the needle toward greater diversity in storytelling and careers in creative industries.

READ: The Hollywood Reporter

• Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan in the Financial Times on CNN's new head Mark Thompson: "’He has his work cut out for him,’ Kaplan said, adding, ‘It’s kind of shocking, actually, that less than a million people on a good day are consuming CNN, and it’s now regularly being beaten both by Fox and by MSNBC... That raises the question of whether the [ideological] middle is still a place that can be competitive.’” (paywall)

• Managing Director Johanna Blakley references the Lear Center’s Are You What You Watch? study in The Guardian's piece on the consumption of conservative entertainment.

• Media Impact Project Senior Researcher Soraya Giaccardi joined director/showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett in this Be Latina piece on the need for diversity, equity and inclusion on TV.

• “Individual stories can move audiences in really profound ways,” says Director of Research Erica Rosenthal, in this article about narrative change strategies in entertainment in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Upcoming Event

The Sentinel Awards

Wed., December 6, 2023

The awards, which celebrate some of the best and most challenging TV entertainment of the past year that made a difference in viewers' lives, will be held at the Writers Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills.