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Graduate Student News 17 Nov 2022

From Crisis Communications to Dissecting a Decade of TV News

Wolken is a third-year student in Communication and Political Science.

Political Communication

Outside, one person sits on a stool in front of a camera while being interviewed by a person standing behind a camera

Graduate Student News 13 Oct 2022

Doctoral Candidate Antoine Haywood Awarded 2022 Sachs Program Grant

For his project, Haywood will collect stories from Philadelphia-area Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) media makers

Media Institutions

Flowers being laid out in front of Buckingham Palace after the death of Queen Elizabeth II

Research 12 Sep 2022

Annenberg Faculty on Queen Elizabeth II's Passing

In Penn Today, Professor Aswin Punathambekar and postdoctoral fellow Katerina Girginova give their thoughts on Queen Elizabeth II's legacy and discuss her death as a historical event.

Destroyed wall of a building from Russia with the number (year) 1917, sickle and hammer.

Faculty News 2 Sep 2022

Professor Barbie Zelizer on Mikhail Gorbachev’s Legacy

Professor Barbie Zelizer shares her thoughts on Gorbachev’s impact on the Soviet Union and the world

Global Communication

Research 9 Aug 2022

MIC Receives $1 Million Grant To Continue Research on Philadelphia News Media

The “Shift the Narrative Coalition” will focus on changing news narratives around policing, trauma, safety, and crime in Philadelphia.

Media Institutions

Graduate Student News 4 Aug 2022

What Is It Like To Be a Journalist During the “Fake News” Era? Not Easy.

Doctoral Student Jeanna Sybert looks at how journalists in the U.S. are dealing with stress and job insecurity as newspapers shutter, wages are cut, and the legitimacy of their field is called into question

Broadcast Engineers in a control room of a BBC channel broadcast

Research 1 Aug 2022

Cable News Networks Have Grown More Polarized, Study Finds

An analysis of 10 years of cable TV news reveals a growing partisan gap as networks like Fox and MSNBC have shifted to the right or the left of the political spectrum, especially in their primetime programming.