Hodding Carter III is a distinguished journalist, statesman, and educator. He is professor of leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He began his career as a reporter with his family’s Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi. He worked on two successful presidential campaigns, those of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Jimmy Carter in 1976, for whom he later served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs and as spokesman for the Department of State, most notably during the Iran hostage crisis.
He went on to become a nationally known television commentator and newspaper correspondent on public affairs, working with PBS, BBC, the New York Times, and other major news publications and cable networks. More recently, he served as president of the The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is a four-time Emmy winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast journalism.
He has authored two books, The Reagan Years (George Braziller, 1988) and The South Strikes Back (Doubleday, 1959).