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Hosein, Hanson
http://faculty.washington.edu/hosein/
M.S., Columbia University
LL.B., B.C.L. McGill University
Office: CMU 251A
Phone: 685-0124
E-Mail: hosein@uw.edu
Hanson Hosein, Director, Master of Communication in Digital Media program, joined the faculty in 2007. He's an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and television journalist. He teaches courses on social media, digital content creation and journalism. Hanson earned law degrees (LL.B., B.C.L.) from McGill University in 1992 and the University of Paris (M. en droit) in 1993. He was awarded an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1994.
His documentary film, Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop has been broadcast around the world, thanks to an innovative digital media marketing approach (Sundance Channel, NHK Japan, SBS Australia). Hanson also produced groundbreaking films for the U.S. government in southern Africa, for TurnHere.com, Discovery Channel Mobile in Latin America and for aid organizations such as PATH and Mercy Corps.
Hanson has worked as a television news correspondent and producer from the world's hotspots for NBC News, MSNBC, CBC News, and Global National. Among other stories, he covered the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the 1999 Turkey earthquake, the death of King Hussein of Jordan, and Al-Qaeda~Rs bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.
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See www.hrhmedia.com for more of Hanson's work.
