Theodore Hamm (writer)

Theodore Hamm (born September 14, 1966, in Chicago) is an American author, writer and the founding editor of the New York City-based literary and culture tabloid The Brooklyn Rail.

Hamm currently serves as the director of the Journalism and New Media Studies program at St. Joseph's College, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

[2] He is the author of The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics, which was published in May 2008 by the New Press.

His first book, Rebel and a Cause, about the 1960 execution of San Quentin death row author Caryl Chessman, was published by the University of California Press in 2001.

Hamm is co-editor (with Williams Cole) of Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000-2010.