Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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| Kathleen Hall Jamieson | |
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| Organization: | Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Role: | Co-founder, FactCheck.org Director, APPC |
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Expertise: | Media |
| Education: | • Marquette University • University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.) |
| Website: | Official website |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is an academic and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-founder of FactCheck.org and the founder of FlackCheck.org, both of which are projects supported by the Annenberg Foundation. Jamieson is also a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Jamieson is a writer and researcher. She has authored or co-authored 16 books.[2]
Career
Jamieson taught at the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1986. For the next 3 years, she was a professor of communication and chair of the Speech Communication Department at the University of Texas.[3]
She has been a professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication since 1989. She was dean of the Annenberg School for Communication from 1989 to 2003.[3]
Jamieson became the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center in 2003. In that same year, she hired journalist Brooks Jackson, and together they launched FactCheck.org. She co-authored a book with Jackson in 2007 that was designed to be a primer for fact-checking called “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation.”[4]
Jamieson founded FlackCheck.org in 2010. It is a companion site to FactCheck.org. FlackCheck.org is a project of Annenberg Classroom that offers political literacy resources aiming to help viewers discern faulty argumentation in general and political advertising.[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ FactCheck.org, "Our Staff," accessed September 15, 2015
- ↑ Annenberg School for Communication, "Kathleen Hall Jamieson," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Annenberg Public Policy Center.org, “Kathleen Hall Jamieson,” accessed September 15, 2015
- ↑ The Daily Pennsylvanian, "Annenberg-founded website takes politicians to task for falsehoods," June 11, 2015
- ↑ FlackCheck.org, "About Us," accessed September 21, 2015
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