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Media, Inequality, and Change Center Hosts Launch Symposium

The MIC Center brings together academics and activists to address social issues.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Papers: Symposium on Social Media, Algorithms, and Journalism Innovations

Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.

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Media, Inequality and Change Center Receives Lenfest Institute Grant

The grant will allow MIC to facilitate dialogue between Philadelphia’s leading journalists and public advocates.

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Symposium Spotlights Political Cartoonists at Risk

Eight cartooning experts discussed the importance of cartooning and the fight to keep the medium alive.

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Research

Dean Delli Carpini and Lenfest Institute Issue New Report on Information Needs and Habits of Philadelphians

The report identified seven opportunities and areas of growth for publishers and information providers.

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Faculty News

The New Yorker Features Jamieson’s Book Cyberwar, on Russia and the Election

The book is available now in ebook and in print on October 3.

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Undergraduate News

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Eugene Robinson and Wesley Lowery Speak to Annenberg Undergraduates

COMM 381 explores how journalism through the centuries has worked to advance social justice issues.

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Graduate Student News

Jennifer R. Henrichsen Awarded Fellowship from Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

As a fellow, Henrichsen will consider how concerns about surveillance are changing journalists’ digital newsgathering practices.

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Faculty News

Q&A: Victor Pickard and Todd Wolfson on the Media, Inequality, and Change Center

The MIC Center is a joint project of the Annenberg School and Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information.

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Annenberg Launches Center for Media at Risk

The goal is to empower, protect, and ultimately save the media from creeping authoritarianism.