Phyllis Kaniss (deceased) University of Pennsylvania, USA
Phyllis Kaniss is Executive Director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She is the author of Making Local News (University of Chicago Press, 1991) and The Media and the Mayor’s Race: The Failure of Urban Political Reporting (Indiana University Press, 1995), which won the 1995 Bart Richards Award for media criticism. In 1999, she created the Student Voices Project, a youth civic engagement initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center that worked with school systems in cities throughout the country. She has also served as Assistant Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she continues to teach courses on the local news media and urban politics and policy. Dr. Kaniss received a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Regional Science from Cornell University.
