Joseph Hammond is an American journalist and foreign correspondent, a native of Long Beach, California. In 2011 he reported the Arab Spring from Cairo as a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. In 2013 he embedded with the M23 rebellion in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo — one of the last journalists to do so before the group was routed by United Nations forces.

His reporting has taken him to the Congo, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Iraq, Egypt, Somalia, Ghana, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, and beyond. He has interviewed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman, Tunisia’s Rachid Ghannouchi, Algerian Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali, and two former presidents of Ghana.

He was a 2014–2015 Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow with the government of Malawi and a Penn Kemble Democracy Forum Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. The Pulitzer Center funded his reporting on Christian nationalism after the January 6 Capitol attack, published by Religion News Service, where he covered Islam and international religious affairs.

Hammond began his career as a boxing writer, and never stopped: he has covered world championship fights on three continents and interviewed Julio César Chávez, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Gennady Golovkin, Oscar De La Hoya, and Bernard Hopkins. He holds a master’s degree in Middle East and African history from California State University, Long Beach, and is an alumnus and research associate of Royal Holloway, University of London. He speaks enough Spanish and Arabic to discuss boxing — his favorite sport.