John Charles Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American

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and

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. He has reported from all over the world, on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades. He 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

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Interview: John Hockenberry.
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'' He has written for ''

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'', '' The Columbia Journalism Review'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Hockenberry has appeared as a presenter or moderator at many design and idea conferences around the world including the TED conference, the World Science Festival in New York and in Brisbane, the Mayo Clinic's Transform Symposium, and the Aspen Comedy Festival. He has been a Distinguished Fellow at the

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and serves on the

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Committee. He is a prominent figure in the

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; Hockenberry sustained a

spinal cord injury A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function. Symptoms may include loss of muscle function, sensation, or autonomic function in the parts of the body served by the spinal cor ...

in a car crash at age 19, which left him with

paraplegia Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek () "half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neural ...

from the chest down. In late 2017, several colleagues accused Hockenberry of harassment, unwanted touching and

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Biography

Early life

Hockenberry was born in

Dayton, Ohio Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Day ...

,Hockenberry, John (April 18, 2007)
Lessons from Jack Hockenberry.
''Metropolis'' and grew up in

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and

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. He graduated in 1974 from

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.Martinez, Shandra (November 07, 2010)
East Grand Rapids High graduate and award-winning journalist John Hockenberry speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

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In 1976, he was paralyzed while

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on the

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.Price, Nelson (September 14, 1995). John Hockenberry's jobs with NPR have allowed him to see the world on wheels. ''

Indianapolis Star Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

'' The driver of the car fell asleep and crashed, killing herself. Hockenberry's spinal cord was damaged, and he remains paralyzed without sensation or voluntary movement from the mid-chest down. At the time he was a mathematics major at the

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,Cawley, Janet (February 28, 1993). Globetrotting in a wheelchair: No challenge can stop ABC's Hockenberry. ''

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'' but after his spinal cord injury, he transferred to the

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in 1980 and studied

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and

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.Lipton, Michael A. (June 6, 1994)
Man in the Driver's Seat.
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Journalism career

Hockenberry started his career as a volunteer for the

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affiliate KLCC in

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.Roberts, Roxanne (July 23, 1992)
Correspondent on Wheels; NPR's John Hockenberry, Moving to ABC.
''

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'' In 1981, he moved to

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, where he was a newscaster.Murray, Michael D. (1999). ''Encyclopedia of Television News'', pp. 98-99. Greenwood Publishing Group; From 1989 to 1990 he hosted a two-hour nightly news show called '' HEAT with John Hockenberry''. During his 15 years with NPR, he covered many areas of the world, including an assignment as a Middle East correspondent, reporting on the

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in 1991 and 1992. Beginning in November 1991 he served as the first host of NPR's ''

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''.Cooke, Anne Marie; Reisner, Neil H. (December 1991)
The Last Minority.
''

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'' After leaving NPR in 1992,Cox, Ana Marie (May 1999). John Hockenberry. ''

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'', pp. 40-43. Hockenberry also worked for

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series ''

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'' from 1993 to 1995, covering the civil war in

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and the early days of

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, before joining ''

Dateline NBC ''Dateline NBC'' is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasion ...

'' as a correspondent in 1996. John Hockenberry (cropped)

In 1995, Hockenberry published his memoir ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence''. In 1996 he appeared

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in his one-man autobiographical play, ''Spoke Man''.Mandell, Jonathan (March 3, 1996)
ON A ROLL?/It may be hip to be 'crip' on stage and film, but try getting a wheel in the door
''

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''; accessed January 2, 2018. From 1996 to 1997 he hosted '' Edgewise'', an eclectic news magazine program that aired on

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.Heffernan, Virginia (August 1997)
Anatomy of a cancellation: how MSNBC's Edgewise went over the edge
, Salon.com; accessed January 2, 2018. In 1999, he hosted '' Hockenberry'', a show which aired on MSNBC for 6 months.Kurtz, Howard (July 8, 1999)
MSNBC Drops 'Hockenberry' Talk Show; Award-Winning Journalist to Return to 'Dateline NBC' Full Time After Only Six Months
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''; accessed January 2, 2018. He reported on the

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in 1999. His weekly radio commentaries aired on the nationally broadcast public radio program ''

The Infinite Mind ''The Infinite Mind'' was a national radio series that aired one hour a week, from 1998 to 2008. It was independently produced and distributed by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. The program was first hosted by Frederick ...

'' from 1998 to 2008. He also served as host on ''The DNA Files'' for the series airing in 1998, 2001, and 2007. He began developing ''

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'' in 2007 and hosted the show from its 2008 premiere until August 2017.Simon, Clea (October 11, 2007). The Takeaway host will step-down from his show-hosting duties at weeks end in August 2017 (8/7/17
"Public radio's new morning show set to go"
''

Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''; accessed January 2, 2018. Hockenberry has narrated several nonfiction projects on

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, including ''

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'' series ''Survivor M.D.: Hearts & Minds,'' ''Who Cares: Chronic Illness in America,''Who Cares: Chronic Illness in America
via PBS ''Remaking American Medicine''. He also narrated the

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documentary, ''War Against the Weak''. He has written for ''

'', ''

'', '' I.D.'', ''

'',Hockenberry, John (August 2001.
The Next Brainiacs.
''

'' '' The Columbia Journalism Review'', ''

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'', and ''

''. He published his first novel, ''A River Out of Eden'', in 2002, and he has written about "The Blogs of War" in ''

'' magazine. In May 2006, he began writing his own blog, "The Blogenberry".Van Til, Reinder; Olson Gordon L. (2007). ''Thin ice: coming of age in Grand Rapids.'' Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing; On April 2, 2008, he hosted the premiere of the series ''Nanotechnology: The Power of Small'', discussing the impact of nanotechnology as concerns the general public.Press release (March 10, 2008)
New Nanotechnology Television Series Does "Sweat the Small Stuff"
''Nanotechnology Now'' (vi
powerofsmall.org
accessed January 2, 2018. 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

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, and the

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. He also regularly speaks on media, journalism, and disability issues. He was one of the founding inductees to the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame in 2005. In a ''

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'' exposé, published December 1, 2017, journalist

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accused Hockenberry of sexually harassing her and other women he had worked with on ''The Takeaway''.

Media criticism

In 2005 he wrote a scathing review of the Academy Award-winning film '' Million Dollar Baby'' called "And the Loser Is..."Hockenberry, John (2005). "And the Loser Is..." MillionDollarBigot.org via

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The review was submitted to a disability website with the title "Million Dollar Bigot" as an exclusive feature. The essay was discussed in news articles globally, and Hockenberry was interviewed about it on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR's weekly news show ''

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''.Jackson, Janine; Randall, Steve (March 4, 2005)
John Hockenberry on Million Dollar Baby, Dahr Jamail on Iraq.
''

'' A short documentary film was made, also called ''Million Dollar Bigot'', completed on July 13, 2005, featuring Hockenberry as well as many other disability activists.Detweiler, Craig (2008). ''Into the dark: seeing the sacred in the top films of the 21st century.'' Baker Academic, Hockenberry wrote in the January 2008 ''

Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...

'' magazine that on the Sunday after the

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he was pitching stories on the origins of al Qaeda and

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.Hockenberry, John (January/February 2008)
You Don't Understand Our Audience: What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC.
''

'' He wrote that then-NBC programming chief

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, 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 à la '' COPS'', a Fox reality series. According to Hockenberry, Zucker said "that he had no time for any subtitled interviews with jihadists raging about Palestine." Hockenberry has further claimed that

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, NBC's parent company, discouraged him from talking to the Bin Laden family about their estranged family member. Hockenberry says that he asked GE, which does business with the Bin Laden family company, to help him get in contact with them. Instead, a PR executive called Hockenberry's hotel room in Saudi Arabia and read him a statement about how GE didn't see its "valuable business relationship" with the Bin Laden Group as having anything to do with ''Dateline''. In another instance, Hockenberry claimed a story he did about a

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member would not appear on the Sunday edition of ''Dateline'' unless the 1960s family drama ''

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'', which followed ''Dateline'' in the schedule at the time, did a show about "protesters or something."

Personal life

Hockenberry is divorced from Alison Craiglow, whom he married in 1995.Staff report (October 22, 1995)
WEDDINGS; Alison Craiglow, John Hockenberry.
''

'' They have five children, including two sets of twins: Zoe, Olivia, Regan, Zachary, and Ajax. Hockenberry was previously married to Chris Todd. The couple had no children, and divorced in 1984.

Sexual harassment allegations

In December 2017, author Suki Kim accused Hockenberry of sexual harassment, stating that he had sent suggestive emails and made unwanted sexual advances to her and other women. He had left

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the previous August, but NYPR president and chief executive

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said, " was not terminated for sexual misconduct.” In a lengthy essay titled "Exile" that was published in the October 2018 issue of '' Harper's'', Hockenberry discussed his "personal and public shame" regarding the episode.Exile
Harpers. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

Works

* Hockenberry, John (1995). ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence''. Hyperion. . * Hockenberry, John (2002). ''A River Out of Eden''. Anchor, . * Hockenberry, John (). ''Frontline'' episode
Climate of Doubt
' on

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and the climate change controversy

References

External links

*
John Hockenberry biography
via ''The Infinite Mind'' (LCMedia)
John Hockenberry biography
via ''The DNA Files''
John Hockenberry: SCI Hall of Fame » 2005 Inaugural Inductees

Million Dollar Bigot – Complete Video
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