Hank Wilson is the Director of Communications for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.

He was a Knight Digital Media Fellow in the Glenn School’s Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, where he produced multimedia stories 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. 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, deputy managing editor of Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Florida, design director of the Baltimore Evening Sun, visual editor of the Charlotte Observer and photo editor of the Milwaukee Journal and the Arkansas Democrat.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he and his team won at the Charlotte Observer, Hank has won seven Society of News Design awards, was for three consecutive years named the Scripps Howard Designer of the Year, was a finalist in the online video journalism award from the Online News Association and has won more than 30 other journalism awards from national and state news organizations.

He lives in Virginia and Ohio 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 New Mexico for the Boy Scouts.