Hank is the Digital Media and Design Fellow within the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. Most recently, he 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.

As the visual editor of the Charlotte Observer’s investigation of televangelist Jim Bakker, Hank was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. He has helped start three newspapers – the Fort Pierce News in Fort Pierce, Florida, The Washington (D.C) Examiner and The Baltimore Examiner. As assistant managing editor of Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., he created a successful Web-based pagination business for the E.W. Scripps Co. In newsroom leadership roles, Hank has been the assistant managing editor of the Roanoke Times in Virginia, design director of the Baltimore Evening Sun, photo editor of the Charlotte Observer, the Milwaukee Journal and the Arkansas Democrat and as the deputy managing editor of Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Florida.

Hank is also a seven-time winner of Society of News Design awards and three times was named Scripps Howard Designer of the Year and 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.