Introduction
Joshua Ives Hammer (born June 12, 1957) is an American journalist and foreign freelance correspondentand bureau chieffor Newsweek and in Europe. While at Newsweek - he was the Nairobi Bureau Chief from 1993 to 1996, the South American Bureau Chief from 1996–1997, the Los Angeles Bureau Chief from 1997–2001, the Berlin Bureau Chief from 2000–2001, the Jerusalem Bureau Chief His articles have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and many more.
Education
He went to high school at Horace Mann School in Riverdale section of the Bronx, NY. He obtained his B.A in English Literature from Princeton University in 1979 where he was Cum Laude.
Family
Joshua Hammer and his ex-wife have two sons together and he has one son with his girlfriend. Hammer's family currently resides in Berlin, Germany.
Personal
He and the photographer Gary Knight were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip in 2001.