Author

John Maxwell Hamilton

John Maxwell Hamilton, former dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, is LSU’s executive vice chancellor and provost. He reported at home and abroad for ABC Radio, The Christian Science Monitor, and others. His latest book, “Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting,” received the Goldsmith Book Prize this year.

Fall 2010: Introduction

Foreign bureaus staffed by correspondents from a newspaper or broadcast network are now largely relics of a bygone era. As this 20th century model of reporting fades, fresh approaches to…
September 15, 2010

The Important History News Organizations Have to Tell

By creating archives of company records ‘we can learn how the paper developed and organized itself, how editors and reporters approached stories, and how community leaders and ordinary citizens responded…
December 17, 2009

Afghanistan-ism: An Apt Metaphor for Foreign News Reporting

When independent judgment isn’t valued in the work journalists do overseas, the consequences for the nation can be devastating.
September 11, 2009

A Remembrance of Foreign Reporting

In ‘Bad News,’ a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.
June 15, 2005

Foreign Correspondence: Evolution, Not Extinction

‘The new correspondents are reshaping foreign news in ways that have potential for good and, without interventions, for bad.’
September 15, 2004

Graphics and Journalism

In USA Today, some of its ‘Snapshots’ have not given the full picture.
September 15, 2002

Moving From Soviet Domination to Press Freedom

Creating an independent and financially viable press is hard.
December 15, 2000