John Maxwell Hamilton, journalist, author and journalism professor, has agreed to talk about the history of American foreign reporting, local/global story possibilities and his assessment of the current way US media outlets cover international events. We will also get to his book about the cocktail, The French 75.
Register for this event sponsored by the SPJ International Community HERE.
John Maxwell Hamilton, a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the Milwaukee Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and The Nation, among other publications.
In the course of his career, Hamilton has had assignments in more than 50 countries. In addition to covering foreign news, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign correspondence and sought to improve it. In the mid-1980s, he created and directed a Society of Professional Journalists project to develop techniques for local reporting of foreign news, especially on relations with developing countries. He later contributed to a similar project for the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In the 1980s, National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of U. S.-Third World relations “more than any other single journalist.”
Hamilton is author or co-author of seven books and editor of many more. “Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.” won the Goldsmith Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association/