John Maxwell Hamilton - Journalism’s Roving Eye

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and ASC School of Journalism were pleased to host a discussion with journalist John Maxwell Hamilton upon the publication of his new book, Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting. This conversation was moderated by Philip Seib, Director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and Geneva Overholser, Director of the School of Journalism.

About John Hamilton

John Maxwell Hamilton is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Louisiana State University Foundation Professor and Dean at LSU. He has been a prize-winning journalist and public servant for over two decades. Hamilton reported abroad for ABC Radio and the Christian Science Monitor,among other media, and was a longtime national commentator on public radio's MarketPlace. Hamilton has served in the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Carter Administration, on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and at the World Bank. He was the first to explore systematic ways to improve local coverage of foreign affairs and has played a leading role in shaping public opinion about U.S.-Third World relations, according to the National Journal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, and Lamar Advertising Corp., a NASDQ 100 company. He has chaired the Knight International Press Fellowships Advisory Committee and has been a juror for the Pulitzer Prize and Scripps Howard Awards. In the fall of 2000 he was a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. The Freedom Forum named him the 2003 Journalism Administrator of the Year.