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Graduate Student News

Jamieson’s Doctoral Students Meet Power Players in Washington, D.C.

The course focuses on the role of rhetoric in politics, elections, and government.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Papers: Symposium on Social Media, Algorithms, and Journalism Innovations

Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.Submissions should examine aspects of social media and algorithms in connection to information production and flow.

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Media, Inequality and Change Center Receives Lenfest Institute Grant

The grant will allow MIC to facilitate dialogue between Philadelphia’s leading journalists and public advocates.

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Faculty News

Price and Ristovska Edit Volume Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

The book examines the role images play in human rights claims.

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Symposium Spotlights Political Cartoonists at Risk

Eight cartooning experts discussed the importance of cartooning and the fight to keep the medium alive.

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Research

Dean Delli Carpini and Lenfest Institute Issue New Report on Information Needs and Habits of Philadelphians

The report identified seven opportunities and areas of growth for publishers and information providers.

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Undergraduate News

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Eugene Robinson and Wesley Lowery Speak to Annenberg Undergraduates

COMM 381 explores how journalism through the centuries has worked to advance social justice issues.

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Research

People Who Don't Read the News Are Better at Predicting Which Articles Will Go Viral, Study Finds

The researchers analyzed the brain responses of 40 people as they read article headlines.

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Graduate Student News

Jennifer R. Henrichsen Awarded Fellowship from Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

As a fellow, Henrichsen will consider how concerns about surveillance are changing journalists’ digital newsgathering practices.

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2018 COMPASS Summer Fellows Head to Washington D.C.

The program aims to bridge the research interests of future scholars with active policy agendas.