Jon Hamilton

Jon Hamilton is a journalist and is the science correspondent for NPR.

Biography

Hamilton is an English graduate from Oberlin College. He did 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 1995-1997

Awards

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