Research Interests for James T. Hamilton

James T. Hamilton is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science at Duke University. His book All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton Press, 2004) examines how economic forces affect media content. He is also the author of Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming, which won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Book Prize, and a recipient of the David N. Kershaw award for distinguished public policy research.

Recent Publications

1. Brian G. Southwell, J.T. Hamilton, and Jonathan S. Slater, "Why Addressing the Poor and Underserved is Vexing", Health Communication, vol. 26 no. 6 (2011), pp. 583-585
2. J.T. Hamilton, "Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage", in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Forthcoming 2012), Oxford University Press
3. Sarah Cohen, J. T. Hamilton, and Fred Turner, "Computational Journalism: How Computer Scientists Can Empower Journalists, Democracy's Watchdogs, in the Production of News in the Public Interest", Communications of the ACM, vol. 54 no. 10 (2011), pp. 66-71
4. J.T. Hamilton, "What's the Incentive to Save Journalism?", in Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can be Done to Fix It, edited by Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard (2011), pp. 277-288, New Press
5. J.T. Hamilton, The (Many) Missing Markets for International News: How News From Abroad Sells at Home", Journalism Studies, vol. 11 no. 5 (2010), pp. 650-666