Jon Hamilton is a journalist and is the

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correspondent for

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. Hamilton is an English graduate from Oberlin College. He received his

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. He was a media fellow at the

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where he delivered a project on state

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programs and

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. He began his professional career as a medical reporter for

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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.

References

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