News Coverage

On CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson proposed a new term for made-up stories or “fake news”: “Viral deception” or VD.
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Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson was featured in a PBS documentary series on the most influential presidential campaigns of the last 50 years, including that of 2008 vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
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Just before the Iowa caucuses, Kathleen Hall Jamieson spoke with host Tom Ashbrook on WBUR’s “On Point” about the effectiveness of debates, the role of moderators and the media, and suggestions for reform.
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What if we treated guns like motor vehicles? Dan Romer wrote in The Hill that guns, like cars, are a major cause of deaths and injuries in the United States, especially for young people. Yet we know so much about motor-vehicle deaths than those caused by guns – because we study them.
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A new bipartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center report that proposes a serious overhaul of the 2016 general-election presidential debates to improve their quality, reach and relevance in the age of social media and an increasingly diverse electorate has drawn widespread media coverage.
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“Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents,” edited by Amy B. Jordan and Dan Romer, was called a “scientifically rigorous and timely volume on youth media use” in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
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