2010 Making Media Connections Conference

Christian “Fuzz” Hogan is the Director of Communications for Advance Illinois.  Advance Illinois is an independent, objective voice for student—focused reform of public education.  He has held this position since January 2009.

Before that, Fuzz was CNN Midwest bureau chief, responsible for coordinating coverage from the network’s bureaus in Chicago and Dallas, as well as coverage in the 14-state region.   Previously, Hogan served as the director of coverage for CNN/U.S., responsible for the oversight of the network’s national desk and newsgathering.  Before that, he served as an executive producer for CNN’s National Bureau in Atlanta, managing the work of the network’s Investigative Unit and coverage of the southeastern region of the United States.  He was also co-Executive Producer of the network’s “Terror on Tape” series, which won a Peabody award.

Hogan joined CNN in 1987 when he started with HLN as an entry-level videojournalist. After becoming a writer and producer, he left for a year to attend graduate school, which ended with his earning a Gannett Urban Journalism Fellowship. He returned in 1991 as a staff writer and has since served as a producer for CNN International and CNN&TIME, the network’s former primary news magazine program. His work included coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and the Oklahoma City bombing.

In 1999, Hogan became an executive producer on CNN’s “Row,” editing, vetting and producing scripts from correspondents from the network’s domestic and international bureaus.     Hogan is on the board of the Chicago Headline Club and the DePaul College of Communications Dean’s Advisory Council. He is also past president and board member of the Atlanta Press Club and a volunteer for VOX, a teen newspaper published by Youth Communications and written and edited by teenagers. Hogan holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.