CLUB ELECTION DAY!

Hanson Hosein
Director, Master of Communication in Digital Media Program
University of Washington

President
HRH Media, Inc.

Hanson Hosein has spent the last 15 years telling stories through multiple forms of media. He began his career as an investigative producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and then became NBC’s Middle East producer based in Tel Aviv. He won Emmy and Overseas Press Club awards for his NBC News coverage The Fall of Kosovo.

He quickly realized technology was bringing change to the news industry and left NBC to master the new tools.

As one of the first pioneers of “backpack journalism”, through his company HRH Media, he returned to NBC as a freelance journalist to cover the war in Iraq, embedded with the US military. After this traumatic experience, Hanson partnered with his wife as an independent filmmaker documenting the “buy local” movement in their film, Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop. This year, his latest documentary, Rising from Ruins, a post-Katrina look at the return of small business owners into New Orleans, was an official selection at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Hanson's use of social and digital technologies led him to the University of Washington, where he directs the nationally-recognized Master of Communication in Digital Media Program. He is currently writing a book entitled Why Storytelling Matters More Than Ever in the Networked Age. Through his company, HRH Media, Inc., he helps advise organizations and companies on how to communicate by building relationships through storytelling and social media platforms.

Hanson holds an MS degree, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and law degrees from University of Paris and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.