APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, and Annenberg doctoral student Jeffrey A. Gottfried published an essay, “Are there lessons for the future of news from the 2008 presidential campaign?” in the spring 2010 issue of Daedalus on The Future of News. Introduction: When news does its job, attentive citizens are better able to understand
Politics
Electing the President, 2008, now available
Since 1992 the Annenberg Public Policy Center has held presidential election debriefings gathering top Republican and Democratic campaign strategists to offer their insights following Election Day. Now APPC has released Electing the President, 2008 (Penn Press), its third debriefing book sharing insider analysis captured at the event. Unlike earlier books, a DVD featuring selected video is
APPC Contributes to Consumer Privacy Study Contradicting Claims That Americans Want Tailored Advertising
Annenberg Public Policy Center researchers Amy Bleakley and Michael Hennessy served as co-authors of a study directed by Annenberg School for Communication Professor Joseph Turow suggesting that the majority of Americans (66 percent) are opposed to advertising tailored to their interests, despite marketers’ claims to the contrary. A collaborative effort of the Berkeley Center for Law
