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John Hockenberry has returned to his roots in public radio — where he was one of the medium's original innovators — after 15 years in network and cable television. During his time at ABC and NBC, he earned four Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award and a Casey Medal.
The Takeaway marks John Hockenberry's return to his roots in public radio, where he was one of the medium's original innovators after 15 years in network and cable television. During his time at ABC and NBC, he earned four Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Casey Medal. Hockenberry has also been recognized for his pioneering online content, hosts the award-winning public radio series The DNA Files, is a weeky commentator for the series The Infinite Mind and currently sits as a Distinguished Fellow at the prestigious MIT Media Lab.
At NBC, he served as a correspondent for Dateline where his work ranged from an intimate portrait of a schizophrenic young adult to an investigative piece that traced internet swindlers in an international web to the first and only interview with the brother of two of the 9/11 suicide hijackers. He also hosted two of his own programs for MSNBC, Hockenberry and Edgewise.
Hockenberry was one of the first Western broadcast journalists to report from Kurdish refugee camps in Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey. During the first Gulf War, he reported from Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Hockenberry also spent two years as a correspondent based in Jerusalem during the most intensive conflict of the Palestinian uprising.
The Takeaway's longtime host, John Hockenberry, says goodbye to the show.
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Many scholars believe this address, delivered in South Africa at the height of apartheid, was Robert F. Kennedy's greatest ever.
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Coates said that his frustration that led him to write “Between the World and Me” came from loving James Baldwin, but feeling the world around him, and particularly whites, were stuck in the world of 1965.
"I cannot deny people's grief," writes the host of the radio show The Takeaway, who works not that far from Ground Zero. "But I think the 9/11-ization of American life has been a kind of poison for all of us."
That was the lesson. Stewart is quick because he’s really listening.
There's a massive coal-powered pumping station to extract drops from the Colorado River basin. Few things offer such an insight into the illogical water policies of the American West, says The Takeaway host John Hockenberry.
We wanted checks and balances. But immigration is just the latest issue in which it's clear there's a breakdown between branches. Meantime, millions of people needlessly suffer, writes the host of "The Takeaway."
The irascible media critic of the New York Times had outsized influence as media moved from traditional to digital, writes John Hockenberry.