The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) is a center for the study of public policy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. It is based in West Philadelphia on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
The Annenberg Center is a research center. The Annenberg Center conducts research, convenes panels of experts, hosts lectures and conferences, and publishes reports on five main areas: Political communication, information and society, media and children, health communication, and adolescent risk.
Among the centerâÂÂs projects are the fact-checking website FactCheck.org, co-founded by APPCâÂÂs founding director, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Brooks Jackson in 2003, and Annenberg Classroom, which provides free resources for teaching about the U.S. Constitution. The center also is a founder and coordinator of the Civics Renewal Network, a consortium of more than 40 nonpartisan civics organizations.
The APPC was established in 1993 by Walter and Leonore Annenberg and its ongoing funding comes from an endowment established for it at that time by the Annenberg Foundation. In 2026, it had around 50 people, including staff, researchers, and postdoctoral fellows. Architect Fumihiko Maki designed the Center's facilities.