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Century-Old Law Could Result in Concerning Executive Control Over Mass Communications

New research from Annenberg doctoral candidate Matthew L. Conaty explores how Section 706(a) of the U.S. Communications Act of 1934 could be used to justify presidential overreach.

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New Research Explores How Volodymyr Zelensky’s Public Persona Shaped Early Narratives of the Russia-Ukraine War

New research from Annenberg doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren analyzes Western media’s fascination with Volodymyr Zelensky in the early months of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Coverage of Civilian Casualties in Allied Countries Boosts Support for U.S. Involvement

A new paper by researchers at the Annenberg School finds that media coverage of civilian casualties in world conflicts increases public support for U.S. involvement, but only when the casualties are civilians from an ally, not an adversary, country.

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In New Podcast Series, Annenberg Scholars Examine Election Politics

The first season of “Annenberg Conversations” will explore the cutting-edge research on media and communication that shape our world.

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Studying Wikipedia Browsing Habits To Learn How People Learn

A collaborative team of researchers, including Annenberg Professor David Lydon-Staley, analyzed the information-seeking styles of more than 480,000 people and found that gender and education inequality track different types of knowledge exploration.

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Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

Researchers at the Computational Social Science Lab have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.

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Mapping How People Get Their (Political) News

New data visualizations from the Computational Social Science Lab show how Americans consume news.

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No Vacations, No Sleep, but Good Journalism: What It’s Like To Start a Nonprofit Newsroom

A new study explores the working conditions of journalists who leave commercial journalism to start digital-first nonprofit news outlets.

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In Their Own Words: Charles R. Wright, Klaus Krippendorff, and Monroe Price

Oral histories from these three distinguished Communication scholars are now available online in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives.

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Personal Papers of World War II-era Journalist Alexander Kendrick Now Available in the Annenberg Library Archives

Kendrick was notably a CBS Radio and TV correspondent who became one of “Murrow’s Boys.”