PERSON: Jane Hall

American University

Professor

Jane Hall is a full-time professor of journalism. She specializes in media and politics, particularly in issues of special interest to young people. A former 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.

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