Kathleen Hall Jamieson Biography
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is an American professor of communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She was born on November 24, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Jamieson co-founded FactCheck.org. She is also an award-winning author, most recently of Cyberwar, about how Russia very likely helped Donald J. Trump become the U.S. President in 2016.
Is Kathleen Hall Jamieson Married
Jamieson got married to her husband, Robert Jamieson in 1968. Not much information is available in the public domain pertaining to their marriage. However, it is known that the couple has two sons. Jamieson also has an unspecified number of grandchildren.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Age
Jamieson was born on November 24, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received her first degree, a BA in Rhetoric and Public Address, from Marquette University in 1967. She is 73 years old in 2019.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Cyberwar
Jamieson applies years of research on elections in her new book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President; What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know, to the problem of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She concludes that it is highly probable, but not certain, that the Russians turned the election away from Hillary Clinton to Trump.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Cv
Jamieson received her BA in Rhetoric and Public Address in 1967, from Marquette University and then her MA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison the following year, 1968. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Academics
Jamieson taught at the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1986. For the next 3 years, she was a professor of communication and chair of the Speech Communication Department at the University of Texas.
She has been a professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication since 1989. She was dean of the Annenberg School for Communication from 1989 to 2003.
Jamieson became the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center in 2003. In that same year, she hired journalist Brooks Jackson, and together they launched FactCheck.org. She co-authored a book with Jackson in 2007 that was designed to be a primer for fact-checking called “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation.”
Jamieson founded FlackCheck.org in 2010. It is a companion site to FactCheck.org. FlackCheck.org is a project of Annenberg Classroom that offers political literacy resources aiming to help viewers discern faulty argumentation in general and political advertising
Kathleen Hall Jamieson Books
Jamieson is the author or co-author of more than 100 works, many of which focus primarily on campaign criticism and the discourse of the presidency. Some of her most notable books are Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford University Press, 2008), Presidents Creating the Presidency (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007).