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Francis Collins and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Discuss Science, Faith, and Trust

The former National Institutes of Health director spoke to APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson about his new book, "The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust."

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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 Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on the outlets’ political leaning, but on the topics they choose to cover.

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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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Atmospheric Scientist and Science Communicator J. Marshall Shepherd delivers 2024 Annenberg Lecture

Shepherd discussed the complex problem of climate change and the importance of communicating it clearly.

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The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois: ‘Something Fresh To Say’

At the 2nd Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science, sociologists Alden Morris and Tukufu Zuberi discuss Du Bois’ contributions to the field and to humanity.

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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.”

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After #MeToo, Sexual Assault Survivors Still Fight To Be Believed

In their new book, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser and former postdoctoral fellow Kathryn Claire Higgins explore the work victims of sexual violence go through to be believed.