CB Hackworth
Documentary filmmaker, journalist and public relations specialist, CB Hackwork has over 30 years of experience in television, print and new media. His work has involved extensive travel abroad with a special emphasis on Africa.
As a reporter, his writing appeared in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, USA Today, Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Nashville Tennessean, Fort Lauderdale News-Sun Sentinel and Southern Exposure.
He is the winner of numerous awards for journalism, including more than 20 Emmys. In 1993, he produced a special on breast cancer that won the prestigious Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Hackworth spent nearly a year in the local programming department at WSB-TV Channel 2, where he produced Monica Kaufman’s “Closeups” and John Pruitt’s “Action News PrimeTime” and the entertainment show “Hot Topics.”
Earlier, as a Special Projects producer at WXIA-TV Channel 11, Hackworth oversaw production of “In Dept” franchise reports for 11pm newscast with a full-time unit that included two reporters and two photographers. He developed, wrote and produced news stories and specials, including acclaimed Olympic documentary 17 Days in the Life of Atlanta. He also was co-producer of the Sunday morning talk show 11Alive in Depth.
Before making the transition to television, Hackworth was a print journalist. Rising from police beat reporter to City Editor at a daily newspaper in North Georgia, he became editor of Creative Loafing, the nation’s largest alternative weekly newspaper, with responsibility for editorial content and reporting staff. He wrote columns and cover stories for a number of years, including one on racism in a north Georgia county which led to the largest Civil Rights demonstration of the 1980s.
He served on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is a past Vice President of both the Atlanta Press Club and the Atlanta Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Over the years, he has been a member of professional organizations ranging from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) to the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
Currently, Hackwork is a scholar-in-residence at the Leadership Center at Morehouse College working in conjunction with the Andrew Young Foundation, having directed over a dozen documentaries with former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young. Recently, he filmed and is now editing four public leadership forums highlighting the contributions of Atlanta leaders Dr. Benjamin Mays, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Maynard Jackson and Ambassador Andrew Young. The completed project will serve as the cornerstone for leadership studies course Social and Political Change in the 20th Century.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can do it any better."
Benjamin Elijah Mays
"A Dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."
Howard Thurman
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is not what you keep, but what you give that makes you happy."
Benjamin Elijah Mays
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"As we face the unpredictable future, have faith that man and God will assist us all the way."
Benjamin Elijah Mays
"At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live."
Howard Thurman
"Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for the least of these."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
