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David Michael Hoffman (born January 18, 1945) is an American author, political commentator, television project director and media activist.〔 He is the Founder and President Emeritus of Internews, a global non-profit organization supporting independent media and access to quality information worldwide. He is the current Co-Chairman of Internews Europe. Experts of post-Soviet media 'call Hoffman the nonprofit Ted Turner.'〔 He is also the Chairman Emeritus of the Global Forum for Media Development, a cross-sector initiative of more than 500 leading media assistance organizations from 100 countries that he spearheaded. He wrote the book ''Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy'' (2013) to tell the stories of the media development field and the activists who are playing a decisive role in political affairs across the globe.〔 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'', ''Foreign Affairs'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The International Herald Tribune'', ''USA Today'', ''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 won an Emmy award as project director for the television series Capital-to-Capital that ran from 1987–1990. It was produced in association with ABC News and Soviet Central Television moderated by Peter Jennings and Leonid Zolatarevsky.〔 ==Education and early career== Hoffman is the son of Jerry and Naomi Hoffman. His maternal grandparents immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in 1905 and his maternal grandparents immigrated from Poland also in the early 1900s. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up there.〔 He graduated from City College High School in Baltimore in 1962, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and did his graduate studies in the social and political history of the United States at the University of Colorado, writing a doctoral dissertation on ''A History of Revolutionary Thought in America: 1877–1919.'' Hoffman played lacrosse and basketball for City College and Johns Hopkins.〔 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).〔 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David M. Hoffman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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