Meet the Vice Provost
James Hamilton
Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Hearst Professor of Communication
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Director of the Stanford Journalism Program
Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
James T. Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication and Director of the Stanford Journalism Program. His most recent book is You Got In! Now What? 100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College (Radius Book Group, 2025). His books on media markets and information provision include All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton, 2004), Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Cambridge, 2005), and Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (Princeton, 1998). His most recent book, Democracy's Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism (Harvard, 2016), focuses on the market for investigative reporting. Through research in the field of computational journalism, he is also exploring how the costs of story discovery can be lowered through better use of data and algorithms. He is co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, affiliated faculty at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and member of the JSK Fellowships Board of Visitors.
James Hamilton at profiles.stanford.edu
- Get to know Jay Hamilton. Stanford Report, January 22, 2025
- Jay Hamilton assumes role as vice provost of undergraduate education. Stanford Daily, January 7, 2025.
- Jay Hamilton appointed vice provost for undergraduate education. Stanford Report, July 24, 2024
Contact Information
The Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Sweet Hall, Fourth Floor
590 Escondido Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-3082
(650) 724-8618