January 23, 2015 January 23, 2015 Children’s TV Pioneer Peggy Charren, an APPC Honoree, Dies at 86 Peggy Charren, a major force in improving children’s television — and a grassroots activist whose work was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom as well as the inaugural Annenberg Public Policy Center award for distinguished lifetime contribution to children’s television — died Jan. 22 at her home outside Boston.READ MORE Children's Programming
January 5, 2015 January 5, 2015 Interview: Visiting scholar Jo Holz on writing a history of children’s television Visiting Scholar Jo Holz (ASC ’81) joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in July to begin work on a sociocultural history of American children’s television. Her resulting book will cover the development of major television shows from the beginning of children’s programming up through present-day offerings.READ MORE Children's Programming
March 12, 2014 Children, Adolescents, and the Media Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Third Edition provides a comprehensive, research-oriented overview of how the media impact the lives of children and adolescents in modern society. The approach is grounded in a developmental perspective, focusing on how young people of different ages and levels of cognitive, emotional, and social development interact with the media.READ MORE Children's Programming Media and the Developing Child Books
November 6, 2006 Kids and TV: Researchers Urge Parents to Cut Back – and Offer Help on Pulling the Plug Although most parents agree that their kids should watch less television, they also aren’t certain how to pull the plug, according to a new study by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, RTI International in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.READ MORE Children's Programming Media and the Developing Child
April 2, 2003 Children and Television Media Policy Roundtable Discussion In February, Kathleen Q. Abernathy, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; Edward J. Markey, D-MA; Jill Luckett, Vice President, Program Network Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association; Patti Miller, Director of the Children and Media Program, Children Now; Vicky Rideout, Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation; Amy Jordan, Senior Researcher, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and EmoryREAD MORE Children's Programming Media and the Developing Child
June 26, 2000 Public Policy, Family Rules and Children’s Media Use in the Home Despite Significant Changes to Media Home Environment, Parents Still Most Concerned about Kids’ TV Watching, V-Chip Ratings and Three-Hour Rule Not Doing Job In Helping Parents Guide Children’s Viewing Habits Study examines how families use media and explore the implications of two major public policy initiatives established to help parents better supervise their children’s televisionREAD MORE Children's Programming Media and the Developing Child