Jon Hamilton

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Jon Hamilton is a journalist and science correspondent for NPR. [1]

Hamilton is an English graduate from Oberlin College. He received his Master's Degree in journalism at Columbia University. He was a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation where he delivered a project on state Medicaid programs and privatization.

He began his professional career as a medical reporter for the Commercial Appeal and Physicians' Weekly and then worked as a freelance journalist and writer from 1995 to 1997.

Awards

Hamilton has won a Baker Prize for magazine writing and a Sherwood Traveling Fellowship.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Jon Hamilton". NPR . NPR. Retrieved 13 November 2010.