News

Americans Split on Fluoridation; Opposition by MAHA Supporters Notable

A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 43% of U.S. adults favor the use of fluoride in public drinking water.

• Health Communication

Barbie Zelizer: A Career Built on Asking the Right Question

Some scholars study a field, and then there are scholars who shape it. Barbie Zelizer has spent more than three...

• Media Institutions

Molly Frizzell Named 2026-28 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

Molly Frizzell has been named the 2026-28 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University...

Testing AI Against Public Health’s Existing Tools

A new Penn-led randomized controlled trial has found that AI-powered chatbots can make vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to say they...

• Health Communication

How Social Networks Reshaped Society and Politics

In recent years, the media has been saturated with stories about the effects of social media on our social, political...

• Political Communication
• Technology & Society

Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Healthy Lives

Recent doctoral graduate Brittany Zulkiewicz examines how communication can improve public health.

• Health Communication

Social Networks Outsmart Cognitive Biases

In 2010, the New York City-based restaurant Serendipity 3 revealed its $69 hot dog, winning the Guinness World Record for...

• Technology & Society

How PA Nonprofit Newsrooms See Their Role in Addressing the Journalism Crisis

Annenberg researchers identified two competing visions of nonprofit news, a restorationist vision and a transformational vision, and calculated the cost of implementing each vision.

• Media Institutions

What Makes Messages Persuasive?

PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and Penn Psychology doctoral student Yubo Zhou studied the relative persuasive impact of messages expressing attitudes, describing behaviors, or combining both.

• Technology & Society

Proust and Rocha Win 2026 James D. Woods Award

The award recognizes Annenberg graduate students for outstanding teaching.