Three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy award winner and Dateline NBC correspondent, John Hockenberry has broad experience as a journalist and commentator for more than two decades. He has reported from all over the world, in virtually every medium, having anchored programs for network, cable and radio. His programs have illuminated issues and events from corporate downsizing and the new face of homelessness to the mysterious world of Saudi Arabia post 9/11. Hockenberry obtained the first television interview with a family member of two of the terrorist hijackers in Saudi Arabia. His investigative work has scrutinized pharmaceutical industry scandals and discrimination against people with disabilities in employment and housing.
Hockenberry is also the author of Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence a memoir of life as a foreign correspondent which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996, and A River Out Of Eden a novel based in the Pacific Northwest.