John Maxwell Hamilton

John Maxwell Hamilton (March 28, 1947), a long-time journalist, author, and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Experience

In his twenty years as an LSU administrator, Hamilton was founding dean of the Manship School and executive vice-chancellor and provost.

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.[1] His work also has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation, among other publications. In the 1980s, the National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of the U.S.-Third World relations "more than any other single journalist."

In government, Hamilton oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department during the Carter administration as an advisor to the head of the U.S. foreign aid program in Asia, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development.[2] He served in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon commander and in Okinawa as a reconnaissance company commander.

Hamilton serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, of which he is treasurer.[3] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[4] Hamilton established a foreign news project for a Society of Professional Journalists and for the American society of Newspaper editors. Hamilton is also on the board of the Lamar Corporation.

Slate interviewed Hamilton to discuss his latest book on American newsgathering abroad.[5] The book won the Goldsmith Prize.

Hamilton earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Marquette and Boston University respectively, and a doctorate in American Civilization from George Washington University.

Achievements

Publications

  1. Main Street America and the Third World[7]
  2. Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes our Lives[8]
  3. Edgar Snow: A Biography[9]
  4. Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers (with co-author George Krimsky)[10]
  5. Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books[11]
  6. Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad[12]
  7. Happy 100th birthday, information warfare: How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance[13]

References

  1. ↑ "lsu.edu" (http://www.manship.lsu.edu/staff/john-maxwell-hamilton/). Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "USC Annenberg" (http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/event/9799)
  3. ↑ "International Center for Journalists." (http://www.icfj.org/about/board-directors)
  4. ↑ "cfr.org (http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=H)
  5. ↑ Shafer, Jack (29 December 2009). "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Slate. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  6. ↑ Marks, Fred (2009). Who's Who in America 63rd Edition. New Providence NJ: Marquis Who's Who.
  7. ↑ Hamilton, John (1988). Main Street America and the Third World. Seven Locks Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780932020642.
  8. ↑ Hamilton, John (1990). Entangling Alliances: how the Third World shapes our lives. Seven Lock Press. p. 204. ISBN 9780932020826.
  9. ↑ Hamilton, John (2003). Edgar Snow: A Biography. LSU Press. p. 384. ISBN 9780807129128.
  10. ↑ Hamilton, John (1997). Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers. LSU Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780807121900.
  11. ↑ Hamilton, John (2000). Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing , Selling, and Reading of Books. LSU Press. p. 351. ISBN 9780807125540.
  12. ↑ Hamilton, John (2009). Journalism's Roving Eye: a history of American Foreign Reporting. LSU Press. p. 655. ISBN 9780807134740.
  13. ↑ Hamilton, John (2014). Happy 100th birthday, information warfare: How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/happy-100th-birthday-information-warfare/2014/08/01/3786e262-1732-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html