Donald McGannon Communication Research Center
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Donald McGannon
Communication Research Center
The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center was founded in 1986 and is named in memory of Donald H. McGannon, former CEO of Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation (Group W) and a Fordham College graduate, Class of 1940.
The mission of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center is to conduct, support, reward, and disseminate research that informs the communications policymaking process and ethical decision-making in the management of media institutions. The Center seeks to contribute to the development of a tradition of rigorous research into media performance and media policy, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between the economic and the public service dimensions of media performance. In pursuit of these objectives, the Center serves as a resource and forum for scholars, policymakers, industry groups, and public interest organizations with an interest in understanding the factors that affect media performance and the appropriate policies to promote and sustain a media system that functions effectively from both an economic and a public service standpoint.
The McGannon Center and its staff have served as a research resource to a wide range of governmental and non-governmental organizations, including: the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of State, the Senate Commerce Committee, the New York City Council, the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Ford Foundation, the Center for American Progress, the Center for Creative Voices in Media, the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, the Institute for Public Representation, the Phoebe Haas Charitable Trust, the Benton Foundation, the New America Foundation, Time Warner Cable, and the Social Science Research Council.
The Center's research has been featured in media outlets such as Broadcasting & Cable, the Los Angeles Times, Media Week, Billboard, TV Week, and the Washington Times.
 
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