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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 is on the faculty advisory council of USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He hosted the radio show So What Else is News? on Air America Radio until September 4, 2005.

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.

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.

Was married to Susan Estrich.

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

On September 4, 2005, he hosted the final So What Else Is News episode on the Air America Radio network.

External links

• Norman Lear Center bio
• Annenberg page
• Air America Radio
• The final So What Else... blog post
• USC Center on Public Diplomacy

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