Jack Hamilton is dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and is the Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor. He is also a commentator on MarketPlace, a weekly public radio program broadcast nationally. He joined LSU after more than 20 years as a journalist. Hamilton has reported for the Milwaukee Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and ABC Radio, among others. He is author of Main Street America and the Third World; Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes Our Lives; Edgar Snow: A Biography; Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers (with co-author George Krimsky); and Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books. In addition to serving as a foreign correspondent, he directed a Society of Professional Journalists’ project to improve news coverage of the Third World. In the course of his career, Hamilton has had assignments in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. In recent years he has undertaken journalism training and reporting missions to Belarus, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Georgia, India, Jamaica and Russia. 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. Professor Hamilton will develop a new model for assessing the way Americans get foreign news and teach a study group about foreign correspondents.
Redefining Foreign Correspondence
January 1, 2003
A paper by John Maxwell Hamilton, fall 2002 fellow, and Eric Jenner, examines the changing nature of foreign correspondence. Significant declines in the number of foreign correspondents and in the amount of space and time allotted to foreign news by print and broadcast media have raised criticism that the news media are “progressively less good
