Adam Clayton Powell III (born July 17, 1946 to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Hazel Scott) is Director of the 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. July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A rare spoken word album by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ... Hazel Dorothy Scott (1920 – 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer. ... The logo of the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... Viterbi School of Engineering, west wall. ... The University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy is a joint academic research, teaching and training center created and run jointly by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences School of International Relations. ...

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. WHUT-TV is a PBS member station in the Washington, D.C., area. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... KMTP, the San Francisco non-commercial station operated by the Minority Television Project, airs programming in several non-English Asian languages, and in German. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

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). WHUT-TV is a PBS member station in the Washington, D.C., area. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. ...

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. Offical NPR logo National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the United States. ... CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports. ... WINS (AM), known on-air as 1010 WINS, is an all-news radio station in New York City at 1010 kHz, owned by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting). ...

Articles and publications

• Powell has written for publications including The New York Times, Wired Magazine and Online Journalism Review.
• Power is the author of "Reinventing Local News," a study of local broadcast and online news services,
• Power 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).

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Awards

Among the awards Powell has won are the 1999 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.