David M. Hoffman

David M. Hoffman is Chief Executive Officer of Internews Network, a global non-profit organization that fosters independent media and access to information worldwide. Co-founded by Hoffman in 1982, Internews Network has worked in 70 countries, and currently has offices in 23 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

Hoffman has written widely about media and democracy, the Internet, and the importance of supporting pluralistic, local media around the world. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, The Huffington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has also testified before US House and Senate committees on issues of press freedom and access to information.

Hoffman was a founder of and serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Global Forum for Media Development, a cross-sector initiative of more than 500 leading media assistance organizations from over 100 countries. GFMD is a practitioner-led process open to all sides of the community involved in media development around the world, with a mission to make media development an integral part of overall development strategies, just like education or health.^[1]

Hoffman was project director of the Emmy-award winning television series Capital to Capital in 1987-1990, produced in association with ABC News and Soviet State Television, and was project director for Internews’ broadcasts of the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, for which Internews was awarded the European Commission’s ECHO Award for Broadcast Commitment in 1996.

From 1980-1982 Hoffman was the editor of Evolutionary Blues, a journal of political thought on international conflict, the threat of nuclear war, and US-Soviet relations.

Hoffman has a BA in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and has completed doctoral work at the University of Colorado in the Social and Intellectual History of the United States.

Hoffman was the founder and co-director of Survival Summer, a coalition of 140 national peace and disarmament groups that helped launch the anti-nuclear war movement of 1980. Prior to that, he was California Area Director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Publications by David M. Hoffman

• "The I-Factor," Huffington Post, July 30, 2009
• "The Permanent Campaign Has No Borders," Huffington Post, December 18, 2008
• "World Bank should link loans to press freedom," International Herald Tribune, April 4, 2006
• "Tune In to Democracy," New York Times, March 13, 2004
• "Beyond Public Diplomacy," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002

External links

• Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
• Internews Network
• Biography of David Hoffman on Internews Network web site

References

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