Author: Hanson Hosein

  • The short film above is the culmination of a project that my colleague Scott Macklin and I had pursued last summer, as an exercise in storytelling for this book, as well as for our Storytelling class earlier this year. Our working premise?  A conference for journalists seeking new business models, looks to Detroit’s incredible community…

  • Every three years or so, I take an abrupt left turn along the meandering donkey trail that is my superhighway to professional success.  From business to law student, to network news producer, to backpack TV journalist, to independent filmmaker to digital media strategist to academic.  A dean at Northwestern University once wondered aloud as to…

  • Despite my position as the head of a graduate program in digital media, I’ve always held on to a plethora of print (a.k.a. “dead tree) newspaper and magazine subscriptions.  They’re usually much cheaper than their digital counterparts, and I liked the often serendipitous browsing experience — not to mention the disconnected zen of knowledge absorption.…

  • Tomorrow, I’m a featured author at the University of Washington Libraries Literary Voices benefit dinner.  I’m still not entirely sure why I was asked to host a roundtable; compared to keynote author Erik Larson, I’m a Literary Whisper in the Wind.  When I protested, the organizers explained that my Independent America film work, as well…