Hockenberry at WKSU event May 7 in Akron

Dayton native John Hockenberry, “Dateline NBC” correspondent and host of public radio’s “The Takeaway,” will be the featured speaker at 7:30 p.m. May 7 at Greystone Hall, 103 S. High Street, Akron for a WKSU radio event.

John Hockenberry of 'The Takeaway'

Hockenberry’s morning show is on WKSU at 9 a.m. weekdays. He will do the show live that day.

He joined "Dateline NBC" in 1996 after 15 years with National Public Radio and ABC News. 

Hockenberry has 3 Peabody Awards and 4 Emmys.

He authored “A River Out Of Eden,” a novel set in the Pacific Northwest, and "Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence," a memoir of his life as a foreign correspondent which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996.

Hockenberry grew up in New York and Michigan and attended the University of Chicago and the University of Oregon.

He and his wife, Alison, live in New York City with their four children.