Marty Kaplan is Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment. He currently hosts the radio show So What Else is News? on Air America Radio. This work is copyrighted. ... The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern Cal, and Southern California), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ... The Annenberg School for Communication entrance. ... Based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the Norman Lear Center is a multidisciplinary research and public policy center exploring implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Logo of Air America Radio, a U.S. radio network and program syndicator with a liberal point of view. ...

He has worked as speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Vice President Walter Mondale, a contributor to the Washington Star, All Things Considered, and the CBS Morning News, a Disney studio vice president, a movie producer, and a screenwriter. A speechwriter is a person who composes speeches that will be read by another person. ... Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ... The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1982. ... All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... The CBS Morning News is the name historically given to a morning news program on CBS between 5:00 AM and 6:00 AM ET. CBSs current morning news program is called The Early Show, which currently competes with NBCs The Today Show and ABCs Good Morning... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ...

He graduated Harvard summa cum laude and was president of the Harvard Lampoon, the Signet Society, and on the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson and Harvard Advocate. He was a Marshall Scholar and Danforth Fellow. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Signet Society of Harvard University was founded in 1870 by members of the class of 1871. ... The Harvard Crimson, of Harvard University, is the United States oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Huffington Post (often shortened to HuffPost or HuffPo) is a left-leaning political group weblog founded by Arianna Huffington. ...

External links

• Norman Lear Center bio
• Annenberg page
• Air America Radio