Routledge has named Amy Jordan co-editor of the Journal of Children and Media beginning immediately. Dr. Jordan, director of APPC’s Media and the Developing Child area, has been on the editorial board of the journal from its inception in 2007, and served as guest editor on a special issue on policy. To mark the occasion,
Annenberg Study Finds Wide Variability in Stations’ Fact Checking Practices and Understanding of FCC Regulations
To better understand how local broadcast stations deal with third party ads and fact checking of political content in news and on line, 260 local broadcast television station managers and executives were surveyed from March 26 through June 8, 2012. The 260 included those responsible for stations under corporate ownership and locally owned stations. Because