James T. Hamilton, visiting associate professor in the Kalb Chair on Global Communications, is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University. His work focuses on the impact of information provision in media markets and in environmental policy. His book Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming won the 1999 Goldsmith Book Prize for the year’s best book on media and public policy. He is currently working on a book entitled News Goods: How the Market Transforms Information into News, which addresses the economics of public affairs coverage. He has published environmental policy articles on Superfund, the Toxics Release Inventory and environmental justice. His article “Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?” in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management won the journal’s best article of the year award. In 2001 he won the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw award. He earned his A.B. and Ph.D. in economics in 1991 from Harvard. Professor Hamilton will teach a course entitled “Media Economics.”
Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility
January 1, 2003
A paper by James T. Hamilton, fall 2002 Kalb Chair on Global Communications, explores the factors shaping media coverage of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper first reviews the many theories and definitions of CSR. Debates about CSR in academia, policy circles, and business arenas center on the set of policy issues involved, stakeholders affected,
