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Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’
Maria Ressa

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa, a longtime CNN bureau chief who later co-founded Rappler, a digital-only news site in the Philippines, gave the annual Annenberg Lecture in early November.

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’

In the annual Annenberg Lecture, the Nobel Peace Prize winner discussed being the target of online attacks and what it will take to ensure that truth prevails.

Michele W. Berger

Five election takeaways
Two men in suits face a large TV screen showing Pennsylvania 2022 Senate election results.

A cable network television broadcast on the Pennsylvania Senate race with Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Image: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Five election takeaways

Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and manager for exit polls at NBC News, shares her team’s top five exit-poll analyses to help explain what happened.

Kristen de Groot

Brazil’s presidential election
Tulia Falleti, Melissa Teixeira, and Marilene Felinto seated at a table addressing an audience.

CLALS director Tulia Falleti, CLALS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Marilene Felinto, and Penn historian Melissa Teixeira, discuss Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s presidential election

Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

Kristen de Groot

Election Day 2022
Voting booth with a picture of an American flag on it, with other curtained booths behind it in alternating red and blue

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Derry, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Election Day 2022

In what is sure to be an historic election, Penn Today looks back at the stories it published in the months and days leading to the midterms. 

Kristen de Groot