John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry
John Charles Hockenberryis an American journalist and author, a four-time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody Award winner. Since April 2008, Hockenberry has been host of The Takeaway, a live national news program created by Public Radio International and WNYC New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 June 1956
CountryUnited States of America
audience everybody hour life people target watches
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
design different brilliance
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
israel america people
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.
struggle people islam
At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.
ethos design faces
Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?
song matter given
The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.
pieces treasure mail
An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
media people needs
The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.