Adam Clayton Powell III

Adam Clayton Powell III (born July 17, 1946 to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Hazel Scott) is Vice Provost for Globalization at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was Director of the [http://imsc.usc.edu/ Integrated Media Systems Center] , the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for multimedia research, at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.

Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2003, Powell was General Manager of WHUT-TV, the nation's first African American-owned public television station. He also was the founding General Manager of KMTP-TV in San Francisco, the nation's second African American-owned public television station, which he helped put on the air in 1991.

Before joining WHUT-TV, Powell helped form and then run training programs and forums on digital media in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. on information technologies and new media for journalists, media managers, educators, policy makers and researchers for the Freedom Forum, first as a consultant (1985-1994), then as Director (1994-1996) and finally Vice President/Technology and Programs (1996-2001).

Powell has also served as an Executive Producer at Quincy Jones Entertainment; Vice President/News and Information programming at National Public Radio (1987-90); and Manager of network radio and television news for CBS News (1976-81); and News Director of all-news WINS (1973-76) in New York.

Articles and publications

* [http://technically-speaking-radio.blogspot.com/2008/08/adam-clayton-powell-iii-on-technically.html Powell interview during the Technically Speaking Radio program on 1540 AM WNWR discussing technology and globalization]
*Powell has written for publications including "The New York Times", "Wired Magazine" and "Online Journalism Review".
* Powell is the author of "Reinventing Local News," a study of local broadcast and online news services,
* Powell co-authored "Lethargy '96: How the Media Covered a Listless Campaign" (Freedom Forum, 1996).
* He has contributed to several recent books, including Democracy and New Media (MIT Press, 2003), Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Elsevier Science, 2002), The Digital Divide (MIT Press, 2001), Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Influence American Politics (2nd edition) (Independent Publishers, 2001), NextMedia Reader: New Technology and the American Newsroom (American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1999), The Internet for Broadcasters (Sypha, 1996), Radio: the Forgotten Medium (Transaction, 1995), Death by Cheeseburger: High School Journalism in the 1990's and Beyond (Freedom Forum, 1994) and Demystifying Media Technology (Mayfield, 1993).

Awards

Among the awards Powell has won are the 2000 World Technology Award for Media and Journalism sponsored by The Economist magazine and the Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting for a series of broadcasts on Iran. In 2004, Powell has named one of America's "Digital 100" leaders by Digital Media magazine.