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Jane Hall

  • Jane Hall specializes in media and politics, particularly in issues of special interest to young people. A weekly commentator on Fox News Watch, she also moderates SOC's American Forum series on NPR station WAMU. Hall is a frequent contributor to Columbia Journalism Review, the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and other publications. She teaches reporting and media studies. In 2007-2008, she developed a year-long collaboration between her students and washingtonpost.com about the presidential election. Working out of New York, Hall covered the media for nine years for the Los Angeles Times. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Editor's Awards and the Los Angeles Press Club Award.

  • Degrees

    BA English (minor in Journalism), University of Texas at Austin; MS Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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  • Women and Politics Institute, AU

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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

  • Politics and the Media;  Media Ethics;  Young People and Politics/Young People and Media.
  • Projects:  “College Vote ’08,” washingtonpost.com. A year-long collaboration about election with students and washingtonpost.com. November ’07  and March ’08  

Media Appearances

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Pulitzer Prize finalist, LA Times
  • LA Times Editor’s Award
  • Los Angeles Press Club Award
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Publications

Professional Presentations

Regular speaker on media and politics, including in 2008:

  • Association of Americans for Civic Responsibility at Syracuse University
  • James Madison Fellows lecture, Georgetown University
  • PBS program at Quinnipiac College

Grants and Sponsored Research

  • Curriculum Development Award, American University, 2008-2009
  • Convener and moderator, conference on the future of news, Center for Social Media, American University, 2006
  • Research Award, American University, 2006-2008
  • Co-author, grant on diversity in journalism education, Knight Foundation and Assoc. of Schools of Mass Communication

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: Politics and the media, war media coverage, media ethics and criticism, television news, depiction of women in the media, young people and the news, young people and politics

Additional Information: Jane Hall specializes in media and politics and media ethics. She is an expert on young people and the news, young people and politics, and the depiction of women in the media. Hall is a weekly media issues commentator on Fox News Channel's The O’Reilly Factor as well as the channel’s long-running media-analysis program, News Watch. She has appeared on numerous other broadcast programs and outlets, including CNN’s Reliable Sources, NPR, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and PBS’s Charlie Rose program as an expert on the media. She is interviewed regularly about politics and media by the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, and numerous other publications and news organizations. Before joining American University in 1998, Hall was a long-time journalist writing about the media for publications in New York, including nine years as the media reporter for the Los Angeles Times in New York. She has been a regular contributor on media and politics to the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics and Columbia Journalism Review. She regularly moderates the American Forum, broadcast on WAMU, the NPR station in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Hall coauthored a study of issues of censorship and self-censorship among 200 journalists in Iraq that was praised as an “important new study” by Columbia Journalism Review. In fall 2007, Hall began a year long collaboration with her students and WashingtonPost.com, that focused on issues of special interest to young people in the 2008 presidential campaign. Her students created online surveys of election issues that were of special interest to young people. The results of two different surveys were published in a series of stories in November 2007 and March 2008 on WashingtonPost.com.

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