Jack Hamilton

Dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communication - Louisiana State University

Phone: 225-578-2336

Email: angelaf@lsu.edu

Area of Expertise: Mass Communication

John Maxwell Hamilton is the Dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Jack Hamilton came to Louisiana State University after more than 20 years as a journalist and public servant. Hamilton has reported in the United States and abroad for the Milwaukee Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and ABC Radio, among others, and was a longtime commentator on MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. He is author or co-author of five books and currently is working on a history of American foreign newsgathering. Hamilton is editor of a book series, "From Our Correspondent," which brings to life forgotten memoirs by foreign correspondents. Hamilton serves on the board of the International Center for Journalists, where he is treasurer. He was a Pulitzer Prize jurist in 1999 and 2000, held a fellowship in 2002 at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was named the Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year for 2003.