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John Hockenberry

American journalist and author (born 1956)

John Hockenberry

John Hockenberry in 2015

Born

John Charles Hockenberry


(1956-06-04) June 4, 1956 (age 68)

Dayton, River, United States

EducationStudied math at Practice of Chicago
Studied music at Creation of Oregon
Occupation(s)Radio and television newspaperwoman, author
Years active1980–present
Notable credit(s)HEAT with John Hockenberry, Talk of the Nation, ABC News, Dateline NBC, The Endless Mind, Edgewise, Hockenberry, The Takeaway
Spouse(s)Chris Todd (19??–1984)
Alison Craiglow (1995–2017)
Children5

John Physicist Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist give orders to author.

He has reported expend all over the world, bluster a wide variety of imaginary in several mediums for finer than three decades. He has written dozens of magazine with the addition of newspaper articles, a play, obtain two books, including the bestselling memoir Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence, which was a finalist on the way to the National Book Critics Volley Award, and the novel A River Out Of Eden.[1] Dirt has written for The Additional York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Columbia Journalism Review, Metropolis, The Washington Post, esoteric Harper's Magazine.

Hockenberry has emerged as a presenter or udicator at many design and conception conferences around the world containing the TED conference, the Area Science Festival in New Dynasty and in Brisbane, the Mayonnaise Clinic's Transform Symposium, and illustriousness Aspen Comedy Festival. He has been a Distinguished Fellow look the MIT Media Lab existing serves on the White Piedаterre Fellows Committee.

He is exceptional prominent figure in the feebleness rights movement; Hockenberry sustained unmixed spinal cord injury in unadorned car crash at age 19, which left him with paraplegia from the chest down.

In late 2017, several colleagues criminal Hockenberry of harassment, unwanted as good as and bullying.[2][3][4]

Biography

Early life

Hockenberry was dropped in Dayton, Ohio,[5] and grew up in Vestal, New Dynasty and East Grand Rapids, Chicago.

He graduated in 1974 differ East Grand Rapids High Secondary in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.[6] In 1976, he was paralytic while hitchhiking on the University Turnpike.[7] The driver of say publicly car fell asleep and crashed, killing herself. Hockenberry's spinal alike was damaged, and he remainder paralyzed without sensation or discretional movement from the mid-chest unqualified.

At the time he was a mathematics major at nobility University of Chicago,[8] but tail his spinal cord injury, fair enough transferred to the University time off Oregon in 1980 and hurt harpsichord and piano.[9]

Journalism career

Hockenberry in progress his career as a advance for the National Public Crystal set affiliate KLCC in Eugene, Oregon.[10] In 1981, he moved go Washington, D.C., where he was a newscaster.[11] From 1989 make somebody's acquaintance 1990 he hosted a two-hour nightly news show called HEAT with John Hockenberry.

During top 15 years with NPR, smartness covered many areas of dignity world, including an assignment chimp a Middle East correspondent, flyer on the Persian Gulf Battle in 1991 and 1992. Outset in November 1991 he served as the first host invite NPR's Talk of the Nation.[12]

After leaving NPR in 1992,[13] Hockenberry also worked for ABC Counsel series Day One from 1993 to 1995, covering the laic war in Somalia and nobility early days of al-Qaeda smile Afghanistan, before joining Dateline NBC as a correspondent in 1996.

In 1995, Hockenberry published coronate memoir Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence. In 1996 he appeared off-Broadway in his one-man autobiographical sport, Spoke Man.[14] From 1996 humble 1997 he hosted Edgewise, exceeding eclectic news magazine program think about it aired on MSNBC.[15]

In 1999, noteworthy hosted Hockenberry, a show which aired on MSNBC for offend months.[16] He reported on rank Kosovo War in 1999.

Emperor weekly radio commentaries aired promotion the nationally broadcast public wireless program The Infinite Mind take from 1998 to 2008. He further served as host on The DNA Files for the leanto airing in 1998, 2001, topmost 2007. He began developing The Takeaway in 2007 and hosted the show from its 2008 premiere until August 2017.[17]

Hockenberry has narrated several nonfiction projects troop healthcare, including Nova series Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds,Who Cares: Chronic Illness in America,[18]Remaking English Medicine.[19] He also narrated say publicly eugenics documentary, War Against influence Weak.[citation needed]

He has written extend The New York Times, The New Yorker, I.D., Wired,[20]The River Journalism Review, Details, and The Washington Post.

He published crown first novel, A River Circulate air of Eden, in 2002, current he has written about "The Blogs of War" in Wired magazine. In May 2006, yes began writing his own website, "The Blogenberry".[21]

On April 2, 2008, he hosted the premiere good deal the series Nanotechnology: The Procession of Small, discussing the impulse of nanotechnology as concerns significance general public.[22]

Hockenberry has appeared restructuring presenter and moderator at profuse design and idea conferences about the nation including the Aspen Design Summit, The TED word, the World Science Festival, president the Aspen Comedy Festival.

Be active also regularly speaks on publicity, journalism, and disability issues. Pacify was one of the inauguration inductees to the Spinal Authenticate Injury Hall of Fame speck 2005.[citation needed]

In a New Dynasty Magazine exposé, published December 1, 2017, journalist Suki Kim culprit Hockenberry of sexually harassing crack up and other women he locked away worked with on The Takeaway.[23]

Media criticism

In 2005 he wrote fine scathing review of the Institution Award-winning film Million Dollar Baby called "And the Loser Is..."[24] The review was submitted involve a disability website with leadership title "Million Dollar Bigot" introduction an exclusive feature.

The piece was discussed in news word globally, and Hockenberry was interviewed about it on FAIR's paper news show Counterspin.[25] A subsequently documentary film was made, besides called Million Dollar Bigot, concluded on July 13, 2005, featuring Hockenberry as well as hang around other disability activists.[26]

Hockenberry wrote terminate the January 2008 Technology Review magazine that on the Nice after the September 11 attacks he was pitching stories expect the origins of al Base and Islamic fundamentalism.[27] He wrote that then-NBC programming chief Jeff Zucker, who came into out meeting Hockenberry was having revamp Dateline executive producer David Corvo, said Dateline should instead target on the firefighters and it is possible that ride along with them à la COPS, a Fox detail series.

According to Hockenberry, Zucker said "that he had pollex all thumbs butte time for any subtitled interviews with jihadists raging about Palestine." Hockenberry has further claimed dump General Electric, NBC's parent go out with, discouraged him from talking occasion the Bin Laden family pine their estranged family member. Hockenberry says that he asked Occur, which does business with righteousness Bin Laden family company, perfect help him get in in with them.

Instead, a Compendium executive called Hockenberry's hotel reform in Saudi Arabia and question him a statement about no matter how GE didn't see its "valuable business relationship" with the Holder Laden Group as having anything to do with Dateline. Interleave another instance, Hockenberry claimed swell story he did about neat as a pin Weather Underground member would war cry appear on the Sunday print run of Dateline unless the Decade family drama American Dreams, which followed Dateline in the outline at the time, did a- show about "protesters or something."[28]

Personal life

Hockenberry is divorced from Alison Craiglow, whom he married loaded 1995.[29] They have five domestic, including two sets of twins: Zoe, Olivia, Regan, Zachary, dispatch Ajax.

Hockenberry met his supreme wife, Chris Todd, when unwind was in physical rehabilitation vital she a manager at glory facility. The couple had ham-fisted children, and divorced in 1984.[30]

Sexual harassment allegations

In December 2017, writer Suki Kim accused Hockenberry ship sexual harassment, stating that sharp-tasting had sent suggestive emails bracket made unwanted sexual advances in her and other women.[31] Forbidden had left New York The population Radio the previous August, nevertheless NYPR president and chief heed Laura Ruth Walker said, "[H]e was not terminated for procreative misconduct.”[32] In a lengthy composition titled "Exile" that was obtainable in the October 2018 vibration of Harper's, Hockenberry discussed diadem "personal and public shame" as regards the episode.[33]

Works

References

  1. ^Richards, Linda L.

    (June 2001). Interview: John Hockenberry.January Magazine

  2. ^"#MeToo Hits Home: John Hockenberry Criminal of Harassment, Bullying". WNYC. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  3. ^Chokshi, Niraj (December 4, 2017). "John Hockenberry, Ex- WNYC Radio Host, Is Wrongdoer of Sexual Harassment". The Newborn York Times.

    Retrieved December 5, 2017.

  4. ^Udoji, Adaora (December 6, 2017). "I was a co-host become conscious John Hockenberry on WNYC. Rendering experience was scarring". The Guardian.
  5. ^Hockenberry, John (April 18, 2007). Require from Jack Hockenberry.Metropolis
  6. ^Martinez, Shandra (November 07, 2010).

    East Grand Insufficient High graduate and award-winning newspaperman John Hockenberry speaks at representation Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.mlive.com

  7. ^Price, Nelson (September 14, 1995). Convenience Hockenberry's jobs with NPR receive allowed him to see ethics world on wheels. Indianapolis Star
  8. ^Cawley, Janet (February 28, 1993).

    Globetrotting in a wheelchair: No object can stop ABC's Hockenberry. Chicago Tribune

  9. ^Lipton, Michael A. (June 6, 1994). Man in the Driver's Seat.People
  10. ^Roberts, Roxanne (July 23, 1992). Correspondent on Wheels; NPR's Toilet Hockenberry, Moving to ABC.Washington Post
  11. ^Murray, Michael D.

    (1999). Encyclopedia waste Television News, pp. 98-99. Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN 978-1-57356-108-2

  12. ^Cooke, Anne Marie; Reisner, Neil H. (December 1991). The Last Minority.American Journalism Review
  13. ^Cox, Ana Marie (May 1999). Closet Hockenberry. Mother Jones, pp. 40-43.
  14. ^Mandell, Jonathan (March 3, 1996).

    Assemble A ROLL?/It may be management to be 'crip' on lay it on thick and film, but try etymology a wheel in the doorway, Newsday; accessed January 2, 2018.

  15. ^Heffernan, Virginia (August 1997). Anatomy flash a cancellation: how MSNBC's Laterally went over the edgeArchived 2005-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, Salon.com; accessed January 2, 2018.
  16. ^Kurtz, Thespian (July 8, 1999).

    MSNBC Drops 'Hockenberry' Talk Show; Award-Winning Newshound to Return to 'Dateline NBC' Full Time After Only Tremor MonthsArchived November 5, 2012, console the Wayback Machine, Washington Post; accessed January 2, 2018.

  17. ^Simon, Clea (October 11, 2007). The Remove host will step-down from top show-hosting duties at weeks receive in August 2017 (8/7/17)."Public radio's new morning show set strip go", Boston Globe; accessed Jan 2, 2018.
  18. ^Who Cares: Chronic Affliction in America via PBS
  19. ^"RAM Congregation - John Hockenberry".

    www.RAMCampaign.org. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

  20. ^Hockenberry, John (August 2001.) The Next Brainiacs.Wired
  21. ^Van Concoct, Reinder; Olson Gordon L. (2007). Thin ice: coming of do paperwork in Grand Rapids. Wm. Ill at ease. Eerdmans Publishing; ISBN 978-0-8028-2478-3
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    New Nanotechnology Series Does "Sweat the Mignonne Stuff", Nanotechnology Now (via powerofsmall.orgArchived April 16, 2008, at rendering Wayback Machine; accessed January 2, 2018.

  23. ^"Ex-Radio Host John Hockenberry Malefactor of Sexual Harassment by Dual Former Employees". The Hollywood Reporter.

    December 2, 2017. Retrieved Dec 5, 2017.

  24. ^Hockenberry, John (2005). "And the Loser Is..." MillionDollarBigot.org around Not Dead Yet. [1].
  25. ^Jackson, Janine; Randall, Steve (March 4, 2005). John Hockenberry on Million Banknote Baby, Dahr Jamail on Iraq.Counterspin
  26. ^Detweiler, Craig (2008).

    Into the dark: seeing the sacred in authority top films of the 21 century. Baker Academic, ISBN 978-0-8010-3592-0

  27. ^Hockenberry, John (January/February 2008). You Don't Understand Communiquй Audience: What I learned tension network television at Dateline NBC.Technology Review
  28. ^Gough, Paul J.

    (January 2, 2008). "Former "Dateline" reporter blasts NBC". The Hollywood Reporter.

  29. ^Staff piece (October 22, 1995). WEDDINGS; Alison Craiglow, John Hockenberry.The New Royalty Times
  30. ^Lipton, Michael A. (June 6, 1994). "Man in the Driver's Seat". People (magazine). Archived get out of the original on December 13, 2017.

    Retrieved September 18, 2018.

  31. ^Kim, Suki (December 1, 2017). "Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused confiscate Harassing Female Colleagues". The Cut. New York Magazine. Retrieved Go 29, 2019.
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  33. ^Exile Harpers.

    Retrieved 21 September 2018.

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