Name: Daniel Hallin
Title: Professor, Department of Communication
Email: dhallin@weber.ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Media Center/Communications Building (MCC) 130
Phone: (858) 534-2843

Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1980

Field of Expertise:
Hallin's research concems political communication and the role of the news media in democratic politics. He has written on the media and war, including Vietnam, Central America, and the Gulf War. He has written on television coverage of elections, demonstrating the shrinking "sound bite" and offering an interpretation of its meaning for political journalism. His new research focuses on comparative analysis of the news media's role in the public sphere, concentrating on Europe and Latin America.

Regions of Interest: Mexico, United States

Media Interview Topics:
Professor Hallin can provide commentary on Latin American media and political communication, particularly in Mexico but to some extent in other parts of Latin America; US media coverage of foreign policy and of Latin America.

Selected Publications:
Hallin, Daniel C., and Paolo Mancini, "Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics" (Communication, Society and Politics), ( Cambridge University Press, 2004).


Hallin, Daniel C., We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere, (London and New York: Routledge, 1993).