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The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania performs research in the fields of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication and adolescent risk. The Policy Center's goal is to provide expert analysis that brings these issues into focus.  We build upon the scholarship produced by the Annenberg School for Communication, which is our home.

With offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the Policy Center conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences and convenes expert panels to address important questions about the intersection of media, communication and public policy. 

To further our mission, we launched this website. It is designed to give scholars, the media and the general public expanded access to the work that we began in 1993. On this site, we make available digests of our research and links to data sets and topline surveys. If there are any questions about materials not posted on the site, please contact our Philadelphia office at the number listed at the bottom of this page, or send an email to sstranahan@asc.upenn.edu.  

Also, we invite you to learn more about the work of the Annenberg Public Policy Center by reading our newsletter, On the Record, available by clicking the On the Record link in our Library below.

 

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Two Initiatives Win Bronze Telly Awards

Monday, May 12, 2008

For the second year, public service announcements promoting HIV awareness among young African-Americans have been singled out for honors.  The three ads encourage young people in high-risk cities to resist peer pressure to have sex and to consider the impact that a sexually transmitted disease can have on one’s future.

The ads were produced by MEE Productions Inc., of Philadelphia, which last year also won a bronze Telly Award for similar public service announcements.

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Philadelphia mayoral candidates participating at last year’s mayoral forum at Central High School. Among them is current Mayor Michael Nutter, second from right. (Photo by John Vettese)

Student Voices at Philadelphia’s Central High Receives $100,000 Award

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

The Student Voices program at Philadelphia’s Central High School has been recognized with a $100,000 award to further civic engagement among students and communities. Central is one of seven schools nationwide to receive the award. The awards were presented by AARP, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Central’s “Power of Student Voices” project, a culmination of three years of Student Voices programming, included prize-winning Civics Fair entries, last year’s mayoral forum held at the high school (view the forum), and ongoing student civics projects. The award was officially presented to Philadelphia School District Chief of Staff Claudia Averette and Central High Principal Sheldon Pavel at the school on Tuesday, May 6.

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Beam Signing Ceremony at New APPC Building


Photo by Kyle Cassidy

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann (left) joined Gail Levin, executive director of the Annenberg Foundation, and Michael Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, at a beam-signing ceremony Friday morning, April 11, to mark completion of the ironwork construction phase of the new Annenberg Public Policy Center (visible in the background).

Each participant signed the beam, which will be incorporated in the new building’s skylight. The event was held at the Walnut Street entrance of the Annenberg School.

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05/12/2008 Political Communication Two Initiatives Win Bronze Telly Awards
05/07/2008 Political Communication Student Voices at Philadelphia’s Central High Receives $100,000 Award
05/06/2008 Political Communication Public Sees Different Strengths and Weaknesses in Democratic Contenders
05/05/2008 Political Communication No Spinning This: FactCheck and FactCheckED Garner Three Webby Awards
05/01/2008 Political Communication Media Fairness? It’s in the Eye of the Beholder, National Annenberg Election Survey Data Show
04/30/2008 Media & Children Amy Jordan on Children and Electronic Media
04/28/2008 Political Communication Mutz elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
04/16/2008 Health Communication Condom labeling study published
04/10/2008 Political Communication Satisfaction with Presidential Primary Process Dropping Among Both Parties, Annenberg Data Show
04/07/2008 Student Voices Builds Ongoing Civic Interest, New Study Finds
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