Scott Hooker

Scott Hooker is senior executive producer of long-form programming at MSNBC, with responsibility for production, development and scheduling of all the network's documentaries.

Long-form taped programs currently fill more than 50 hours each week on MSNBC and frequently account for many of the network's most highly rated shows, including the very popular Lockup franchise, which examines life inside America's most notorious prisons.
Hooker has been at MSNBC since joining to help launch the network as a senior producer of live news programming. He moved to the documentary unit when it was formed in 1999. His long-form work has been honored with numerous awards. Most recently, in 2008, Hooker received the prestigious DuPont Columbia award for War Zone Diary, correspondent Richard Engel's compelling and personal account of covering the Iraq War. Hooker also received a 2008 Emmy nomination for long-form investigative reporting for Mississippi Cold Case, a film that helped to re-open a 1964 lynching case, resulting in a suspect's indictment and conviction.

Hooker began his career in local television news in 1980, as a courier and production assistant for the NBC station in Chicago, where he was executive producer when he left in 1996 to help develop and launch MSNBC.

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