Joshua Ives Hammer (born June 12, 1957) is an American journalist and foreign freelance correspondent and bureau chief for 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 such publications as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Smithsonian.