Distinguished Professor Daniel Hallin

IAS Open Programme

University of California San Diego

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research covers media and politics, media and war, media and public health, the history of journalistic professionalism, and comparative media systems, particularly in Europe and Latin America.

His books include The “Uncensored War”: The Media and Vietnam, We Keep America on Top of the World: Television News and the Public Sphere, Comparing Media Systems:  Three Models of Media and Politics Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World and most recently, Making Health Public: How News Coverage is Remaking Media, Medicine and Contemporary Life.   Comparing Media Systems has received numerous awards and been translated into 10 languages. 

Prof. Hallin received his Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1980 and joined UCSD’s Communication Department that year. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association; other awards include the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award of the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association, the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy and fellowships at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

He is currently Co-Investigator on the research project Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism (PANCOPOP), led by Professor Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough) and funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities under the Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in the Post-Pandemic World scheme. Professor Hallin leads Strand 1 of the project, on Health Crisis Communication.