Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born 1946) is an American Professor of Communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The Annenberg Public Policy Center runs FactCheck, a nonprofit devoted to examining the factual accuracy of U.S. political campaign advertisements.

"Viral Deception" Kathleen Hall Jamieson, invents a new term for "fake news", "Viral Deception".

Kathleen Hall Jamieson was born on November 24, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her BA in Rhetoric and Public Address from Marquette University in 1967, her MA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison the following year and her PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1972.

From 1971 to 1986, Jamieson served as a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. She held the G.B. Dealey Regents Professorship while at the University of Texas from 1986-1989, served as the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania from 1989-2003 and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center from 1993-the present.

Jamieson is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the International Communication Association and a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association.

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