Jon Hamilton is a journalist and science correspondent for NPR.
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.
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Oberlin College alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni NPR personalities Place of birth missing (living people) American male journalists 20th-century American journalists 21st-century American journalists