The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) is a center for the study of

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

at the

Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania The Annenberg School for Communication is the communication school at the University of Pennsylvania. The school was established in 1958 by Wharton School alum Walter Annenberg as the Annenberg School of Communications. The name was changed to it ...

. It has offices in

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, and

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, where the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

is located.

Activities

The Annenberg Center is a political advocacy group that owns FactCheck.org. The Annenberg Center conducts

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, convenes panels of experts, hosts

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s and conferences, and publishes reports on five main areas: Political communication, information and society, media and children, health communication, and adolescent risk. The APPC was established in 1993 by

Walter Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...

and Leonore Annenberg and its ongoing funding comes from an endowment established for it at that time by the

Annenberg Foundation The Annenberg Foundation is a foundation that provides funding and support to non-profit organizations. Overview The Annenberg Foundation was established by Walter H. Annenberg in 1989 with $1.2 billion, one-third of the assets from the sale o ...

. In 2009, it had a staff of 54 people. Architect

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95. Early life Maki was born ...

designed the Center's facilities.

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External links

* * 1993 establishments in Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Educational institutions established in 1993 Fumihiko Maki buildings University of Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-stub