Events

Representatives from the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee and several liberal and conservative groups gathered at the Newseum on December 12 to discuss their efforts to influence voters in the 2008 election. Tens of millions of dollars were spent by the political parties and outside groups to try to convince voters to back

On Monday night at 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm EST, C-SPAN will air a voter focus group moderated by pollster Peter Hart and hosted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. At the event, held on Sunday in Lake County, OH, a group of 12 persuadable voters discussed the candidates, the campaign and the issues facing the nation.

On Monday, C-SPAN aired an APPC-sponsored voter focus group conducted June 24 by Peter Hart in York, PA, among a group of 12 voters, none of whom supported either Sen. Obama or McCain in the PA primary. The group’s discussion provides insight into the thoughts and feelings these voters have toward the presumptive nominees, the

 Students representing nearly a dozen schools from across the School District of Philadelphia gathered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Hall of Flags Tuesday to present civics projects on topics ranging from global warming to the gun violence plaguing the city. The projects were the culmination of work the high school seniors had done in their

Amy Jordan, director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has authored “Children’s Media Policy,” the final article in the latest issue of the journal The Future of Children, which is devoted exclusively to children and electronic media. The journal is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of

With their classmates and teachers looking on, Fox Chapel Area High School students Julia L. Hazlet and Luke J. Secosky today urged members of the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee to amend the law to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections if they will be 18 in time for the general election. “It makes

More than nine million children in the United States are overweight, a figure that has tripled since the 1970s. Overweight children are more likely to suffer psychological and physical health problems in their youth, and those problems are likely to follow them to adulthood. Obesity may be the number-one health problem facing children today. That

Political Mendacity and the Rise of Media Fact-Checkers More newspapers and television stations are fact-checking the claims of politicians, and the public seems to love it, according to factchecking practitioners and two new studies released today at a conference sponsored by FactCheck.org and the Annenberg Public Policy Center. “You get 100 e-mails saying thank-you for

In a world that is drifting, the United States must come up with a cohesive game plan to guide its diplomacy, said former Secretary of State George P. Shultz who delivered the second annual Leonore Annenberg Lecture in Public Service and Global Understanding at the University of Pennsylvania on October 18. Shultz’s address was entitled

  The Office of the President will join the Annenberg Public Policy Center and The Institute for Public Service at the AnnenbergSchool for Communication on October 18 to pay tribute to the Honorable Leonore Annenberg at the Leonore Annenberg Lecture in Public Service and Global Understanding. The event will feature George P. Shultz, the Thomas W. and