News from the Annenberg School for Communication
February 19, 2013
In this issue:
Paul Waldman to deliver 2013 George Gerbner Lecture
Paul Waldman to deliver 2013 George Gerbner Lecture in Communication
Paul Waldman, Ph.D. (Gr ’00) will deliver the 2013 George Gerbner Lecture in Communication on Monday, April 8 at 6 p.m. in Room 109.
Dr. Waldman is a senior correspondent for the Prospect and the author of Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success. Additionally, he is the co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. of The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World.
Delivered by an alumnus of the Annenberg School for Communication, recent speakers for the George Gerbner Lecture include:
2008: Diane Zimmerman Umble
(Gr ’91)
2009: Karin Gwinn Wilkins,
Ph.D. (Gr ’91)
2010: Erika Falk,
Ph.D. (Gr ’01)
2011: Itzik Yanovitzky,
Ph.D. (Gr ’00)
By invitation only; space is limited. Watch Annenberg In Touch and the Annenberg web site for more details.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, delivered the key note address during the East-West Center’s International Graduate Student Conference last week.
New “3620” podcast – Thinking Home
Photos from student project win awards
Photographs by Micah Albert of Kenya’s Dandora Municipal Dump site received the National Geographic’s Photo of the Year Award and the World Press Photo of the Year award. The photos were taken as part of a series of stories written by Annenberg doctoral student David Conrad, who was writing about the site as part of a Pulitzer Center grant.
Feb. 21 – CGCS seminar: Evaluating U.S. Foreign Assistance Programs: Perspectives from the State Department – Noon in Room 500.
Feb. 21 – “A year in the life” film discussion – 7 p.m. in Room 109
Feb. 22 - Lecture byVisiting Scholar Deborah R. Bassett - Noon in Room 500
Feb. 24 – Screening Scholarship Media Festival – Noon to 7 p.m.
Feb. 28 - Lecture by Melissa Harris-Perry - 5:30 p.m. at the Penn Museum
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