John Charles Hockenberry was born on June 4,1956 and is an American journalist and author.
23 Facts About John Hockenberry
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John Hockenberry has reported from all over the world, on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades.
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John Hockenberry has written dozens of magazine and newspaper articles, a play, and two books, including the bestselling memoir Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the novel A River Out Of Eden.
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John Hockenberry has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wired, The Columbia Journalism Review, Metropolis, The Washington Post, and Harper's Magazine.
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John Hockenberry has been a Distinguished Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and serves on the White House Fellows Committee.
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John Hockenberry is a prominent figure in the disability rights movement; Hockenberry sustained a spinal cord injury in a car crash at age 19, which left him with paraplegia from the chest down.
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John Hockenberry was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Vestal, New York and Michigan.
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John Hockenberry graduated in 1974 from East Grand Rapids High School in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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John Hockenberry started his career as a volunteer for the National Public Radio affiliate KLCC in Eugene, Oregon.
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In 1995, John Hockenberry published his memoir Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence.
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In 1999, he hosted John Hockenberry, a show which aired on MSNBC for 6 months.
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John Hockenberry served as host on The DNA Files for the series airing in 1998,2001, and 2007.
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John Hockenberry began developing The Takeaway in 2007 and hosted the show from its 2008 premiere until August 2017.
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John Hockenberry narrated the eugenics documentary, War Against the Weak.
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John Hockenberry published his first novel, A River Out of Eden, in 2002, and he has written about "The Blogs of War" in Wired magazine.
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John Hockenberry has appeared as presenter and moderator at numerous design and idea conferences around the nation including the Aspen Design Summit, The TED conference, the World Science Festival, and the Aspen Comedy Festival.
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John Hockenberry regularly speaks on media, journalism, and disability issues.
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John Hockenberry was one of the founding inductees to the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame in 2005.
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The essay was discussed in news articles globally, and John Hockenberry was interviewed about it on FAIR's weekly news show Counterspin.
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John Hockenberry wrote in the January 2008 Technology Review magazine that on the Sunday after the September 11 attacks he was pitching stories on the origins of al Qaeda and Islamic fundamentalism.
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John Hockenberry wrote that then-NBC programming chief Jeff Zucker, who came into a meeting Hockenberry was having with Dateline executive producer David Corvo, said Dateline should instead focus on the firefighters and perhaps ride along with them a la COPS, a Fox reality series.
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John Hockenberry says that he asked GE, which does business with the Bin Laden family company, to help him get in contact with them.
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John Hockenberry is divorced from Alison Craiglow, whom he married in 1995.