FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONACT: Lorie Slass July 15, 2003 202-879-6701

Adam Clymer Joins PENN's Annenberg Public Policy Center

Former New York Times Correspondent to Serve as Washington Director of the National Annenberg Election Survey

Adam Clymer, former chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times has joined the Washington office of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Scholar and Washington Director of the National Annenberg Election Survey.

The National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES) is a rolling-cross sectional survey of the American electorate. The NAES breaks new ground in election surveys by interviewing randomly chosen Americans every night for an extended period. The 2004 survey builds on the work of the 2000 survey, which was the largest academic survey of the American electorate ever conducted. By the end of 2000, over 100,000 interviews were conducted on Americans' political knowledge, media use and opinions about candidates and issues. Daily interviews for the 2004 survey begin on November 1, 2003 and will continue through the presidential inauguration in 2005. Regular reports will be released by the Policy Center.

The NAES team will be led by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Clymer will direct the effort in Washington, DC.

“Adam Clymer has a nuanced understanding of politics as well as the theories of political science. His experience directing and interpreting polls makes him the ideal person to ensure that the scholars on the NAES team ask the right questions. His talents as a communicator will ensure that NAES's results are carefully and intelligently translated to journalists and the public ” said Jamieson. “Everyone at APPC is delighted that Adam has agreed to make the Policy Center in DC his new home."

Prior to coming the Policy Center, Clymer was chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times. Clymer had been with the Times since 1977 and covered Congress, presidential campaigns and served as the Times polling editor from 1983-1990. In 2003 he won the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award for distinguished political reporting and in1993 he won the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress. Before the Times, Mr. Clymer worked at The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, The Baltimore Sun, and The New York Daily News in 1977. He contributed to Reagan: The Man, The President, a book by Times reporters published in 1991. He edited The New York Times Year in Review, 1986, published in 1987. His Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography was published in late 1999 by William Morrow & Co.

The National Annenberg Election Survey team includes a distinguished group of analysts, pollsters and researchers that will conduct the largest political survey of the American electorate being conducted for the 2004 election. Ken Winneg, former Vice President for Penn, Schoen and Berland, will be based at APPC's offices in Philadelphia and will serve as the Managing Director of the Survey.

For more information about the survey and the survey team please go to www.appcpenn.org/politics

The Annenberg Public Policy Center was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would examine the role of communications in public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels. The Annenberg Public Policy Center supports research and sponsors lectures and conferences.