Hank Wilson

Hank Wilson is the director of communications for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University where he designed the school’s branding and marketing. Wilson designs, edits and creates original content for the school's website, social media platforms, video and photo platforms and printed materials. He is also the editor of the school’s magazine, Public Address. 

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 website on the culture of “no snitching” in Newport News, Va. The project was a finalist for the Online Video Journalism Award from the Online News Association.

As a senior editor at the Charlotte Observer, he was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was a finalist in the Online News Association’s Online Video Journalism Award for his stories on the “No Snitch” culture in Newport News, Va., is a seven-time winner of Society of News Design awards, four-time winner of Missouri Lifestyle General Excellence awards, three times named Scripps Howard Designer of the Year as well as winning more than 30 other awards from state and national journalism organizations.

As a newsroom leader, Wilson has been a senior editor for the Charlotte Observer, the Milwaukee Journal, the Baltimore Evening Sun, the Arkansas Democrat, Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida, Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. and the Roanoke Times in Virginia.