Hank Wilson is the Digital Media and Design Fellow within the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, where he is developing media strategies for the school across multiple platforms.

Most recently, Hank was the Knight Digital Media Fellow in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at The Ohio State University, where he produced a series of video stories and a Web site on the culture of “no snitching” in Newport News, Va.

In a wonderful career in newspapers, Hank has helped start three newspapers – the Fort Pierce News (which he conceived) in Fort Pierce, Florida. As assistant managing editor, he helped start The Washington (D.C) Examiner and The Baltimore Examiner. While assistant managing editor at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., he used unique broadcast and print material to created a successful Web-based pagination business, as well as creating an Internet magazine for the E.W. Scripps Co. He was the visual editor of the Charlotte Observer’s investigation of televangelist Jim Bakker that won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

As a newsroom leader, Hank has been the assistant managing editor of the Roanoke Times in Virginia, deputy managing editor of Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Florida, assistant managing editor of Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., design director of the Baltimore Evening Sun, photo editor of the Charlotte Observer, the Milwaukee Journal and the Arkansas Democrat as well as news art director of the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia.

Hank is a seven-time winner of Society of News Design awards and three times was named Scripps Howard Designer of the Year. He has won more than 30 other journalism awards from national and state news organizations.

He lives in Virginia with his wife, Martha, who is a journalism professor, and their teenage daughter, Annie. Their son, Hunter, is a photojournalist in Kentucky and their daughter, Emily, works in Colorado.