Jon Hamilton

{{short description|American journalist}}

'''Jon Hamilton''' is a journalist and science correspondent for NPR.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/people/2100615/jon-hamilton|title=Jon Hamilton|work=NPR|publisher=NPR|access-date=13 November 2010}}</ref>

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|date=May 2010}}

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