News from the Annenberg School for Communication
May 3, 2011
Prof. Kraidy featured in Penn Gazette story about Mideast unrest
Prof. Zelizer on the role of the news media and national security
Prof. Monroe Price's interview with Cardozo Jurist
Prof. Krippendorff presents to international conference in Montreal
Prof. Kraidy featured in Penn Gazette story about Mideast unrest
Marwan M. Kraidy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, is one of several Penn experts interviewed by the Pennsylvania Gazette for a feature story on civil unrest in the Middle East.
Prof. Zelizer writes about the role of the news media and national security
Marking the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's speech to news professionals after the Bay of Pigs invasion, Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, writes in The Huffington Post about Kennedy’s request to the national news media to pay more attention to national security issues. “Over these 50 years, journalists have increasingly come to heed some of Kennedy's words but not all, and they have done so in ways that do not always reflect well on contemporary journalism,” she wrote.
Prof. Monroe Price's interview with Cardozo Law Review
Monroe Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies, is interviewed by The Cardozo Jurist reflecting on his time as Dean of the Cardozo Law School.
Prof. Krippendorff presents before the International Conference on Dialogue Analysis
His paper, “Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation” offered an epistemological critique of the concept of representation.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talked to the Associated Press about negative campaigning in the era of social media. She also offered thoughts to Reuters on how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can conduct himself during the first-ever press conference held by the Federal Reserve Bank. Most recently she delivered a lecture at the Nixon Library regarding political and presidential rhetoric.
Prof. Zelizer and Adjunct Al Felzenberg offered their thoughts to The Philadelphia Inquirer about NBC and its role in Donald Trump’s positioning of himself as a potential candidate for President.
Felzenberg also wrote about the potential field of Republican Presidential candidates for U.S. News and World Report.
Amy Jordan, Ph.D., Director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, was interviewed by NPR affiliate WHYY for a story about marketing food to young children.
FactCheck.org wins the Webby – again!
Also, FactCheck.org continues to play a pivotal role in the never-ending “birther” controversy. Here is just one of the recent stories citing FactCheck research – this one from the BBC.
Leonore Annenberg Scholarship recipient profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The cyclical nature of Annenberg contacts and relationships is explored in a new profile on alumna Julie Dobrow.
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