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Center for Media at Risk Symposium Explores How Media Can Be a Resource for Resistance, Creativity, Community, and Hope

The final Center for Media at Risk symposium brought speakers to discuss actionable strategies for media makers and media researchers that foreground collective action and creativity.

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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...

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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.

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A Signal Through the Noise: How the Media Bias Detector Is Cutting Through Our Cluttered Media Landscape

“Explorer” isn’t one of Duncan Watts’s many titles, but perhaps it should be. As the Stevens University Professor and the...

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Matthew Conaty Named 2026 Pacific Telecommunications Council Emerging Scholar

Conaty studies the legal history of science, technology, and the administrative state.

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Victor Pickard Named 2026 Roosevelt Institute Think Tank Fellow

The prestigious fellowship honors scholars, policymakers, and public intellectuals whose work advances a democratic vision for the American economy.

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To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says

In a new paper, Professor Victor Pickard argues for a more democratic media system.

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An Inside Look at the History of Television

Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.

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Worldmaking in the Age of Streaming

Does representation in mainstream media deliver the social change it promises? Or have we mistaken visibility for progress, celebrating symbolic...

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New Report Unpacks the Crises Facing American Journalism and Offers Solutions

A report co-authored by Professor Victor Pickard traces the erosion of the free press in the United States over the past two decades.