Key Staff
David Hoffman
President
David Hoffman is President 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, 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 works
to develop and strengthen independent media around the world that
are both responsive to, and reflective of, the needs of ordinary
people.
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 War Crimes
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.
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