The Annenberg Public Policy Center
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| The Annenberg Public Policy Center | |
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| Location: | Philadelphia, Pa. and Washington, D.C. |
| Type: | Educational and Research Center |
| Top official: | Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director |
| Founder(s): | Walter and Leonore Annenberg |
| Year founded: | 1993 |
| Website: | Official website |
The Annenberg Public Policy Center (or APPC) is a communications and media research center at the University of Pennsylvania. It serves as the primary financial and institutional supporter of the fact-checking website, FactCheck.org.
Mission
On its website, the APPC states that the Annenbergs established the center in order to:[1]
| “ | increase the impact of the scholarship produced at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, the Policy Center’s home. It was their hope that the APPC would apply its knowledge about communication to improve the well-being of those in the U.S. and throughout the globe.[2] | ” |
Background
The APPC was established in 1993 with an endowment from Walter and Leonore Annenberg of the Annenberg Foundation and has offices in Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D.C. According to the APPC website, the original 1993 endowment continues to provide funding for the center's operations.
The APPC oversees a number of nationally-recognized projects, such as FactCheck.org, Flackcheck.org and the National Annenberg Election Survey. It also provides scholarships and fellowships through the Leonore Annenberg Scholarship, Fellowship and School Funds, supports the work of visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows at the University of Pennsylvania and hosts lectures and conferences.[1]
The communications and media research areas of interest to the center are:[1]
- Political communication
- Information and society
- Media and the developing child
- Health communication and adolescent risk
Staff
Executive staff
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director
- Dan Romer, Director of Research
- Michael Rozansky, Director of Communications
- Lena Buford, Director of Finance
- Peter Hart, Director, Voices of the Voters
- Brooks Jackson, Director Emeritus, FactCheck.org
- Patrick E. Jamieson, Director, AHRCI
- Eugene Kiely , Director, FactCheck.org
- Gail Levin, Director, LASFSF
- Ken Winneg, Managing Director of Survey Research
The APPC also hosts Distinguished Research Fellows, Visiting Scholars and Post-doctoral Fellows. A current list of Distinguished Research Fellows can be found here. A current list of Visiting Scholars and Post-doctoral Fellows can be found here.
Projects
The following is a brief summary of some of the APPC's major political projects. A full list of all of their projects, with summaries, can be found on the APPC website.
FactCheck.org
- See also: FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a political fact-checking project that focuses on "major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases." It began in 2003 under the leadership of former AP, Wall Street Journal and CNN reporter Brooks Jackson and academic Kathleen Hall Jamieson. FactCheck.org publishes about 250 fact check stories annually. The project publishes its stories online and encourages print publications to republish them.[3][4]
Flackcheck.org
Flackcheck.org is described as the "political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org." As stated on its website, its goal is to help the general public recognize flawed argumentation in political rhetoric. It uses written articles and videos to expose inaccuracies, fallacious arguments, hyperbole and incivility. The project places a special focus on television ads created by political campaigns and special interest groups.[5]
National Annenberg Election Survey
The National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES) measures the electorate's attitude toward political candidates, knowledge of key issues, political preferences and exposure to political media.[6] It has been conducted every four years since 2000 in conjunction with the presidential election cycle.[7] In 2003, it was described as "the most comprehensive academic survey ever conducted on American political attitudes and behavior."[8]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Annenberg Public Policy Center, "About the Annenberg Public Policy Center," accessed September 14, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Graves, L. (2013) Deciding What’s True: Fact-Checking Journalism and the New Ecology of News (Doctoral Dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest (UMI 3549415), p. 132
- ↑ FactCheck.org, "About Us," accessed September 14, 2015
- ↑ Flackcheck.org, "About us," accessed September 14, 2015
- ↑ Annenberg Public Policy Center, "National Annenberg Election Survey," accessed September 14, 2015
- ↑ Romer, D. et al. (2006) Capturing Campaign Dynamics, 2000 and 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, p. vii
- ↑ Polingreport.com, "The National Annenberg Election Survey 2000," August 11, 2003
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