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<strong>Mowglis</strong> Men in Media<br />
<strong>Mowglis</strong> has been fertile ground for producing men with an interest<br />
in the media and the skills to shape that interest into a career.<br />
Benjamin Ringe<br />
Vice President of Development, NBC<br />
Peacock Productions<br />
<strong>Mowglis</strong> camper years: ‘79-’85<br />
Former <strong>Mowglis</strong> staff<br />
Benjamin (“Benji”) has spent<br />
his career creating new television<br />
programming, including<br />
various "Trading Spaces"<br />
specials and spin offs,<br />
"Ambush Makeover" for 20th<br />
Century Fox and "Surviving<br />
Motherhood" and "A Dating<br />
Story" for The Learning<br />
Channel (TLC). He has<br />
overseen the creation, development<br />
and sale of 25 television<br />
series and six specials<br />
across 14 broadcast and<br />
cable networks, as well as<br />
first-run syndication.<br />
Benjamin is now working<br />
on TV series development as<br />
Vice President Development<br />
and Executive Producer for<br />
NBC's Peacock Productions<br />
at 30 Rock.<br />
Benjamin, BobbiJo,<br />
Samantha (4) and Gabrielle<br />
(2) are now settled in Glen<br />
Ridge, N.J.<br />
Craig Bengtson<br />
Executive, ESPN SportsCenter<br />
<strong>Mowglis</strong> camper years: ‘68-’74<br />
Former <strong>Mowglis</strong> staff<br />
Former <strong>Mowglis</strong> trustee<br />
Craig is the executive in<br />
charge of "SportsCenter" at<br />
ESPN, overseeing the editorial<br />
content and production<br />
of the nation’s popular<br />
sports and information<br />
show. Before arriving at<br />
ESPN in 2006, Craig was<br />
the Executive Producer of<br />
the "World News Tonight,<br />
Saturday-Sunday" at ABC<br />
News.<br />
A winner of three Emmy<br />
Awards, a Peabody Award<br />
(for the coverage of<br />
September 11th), and an<br />
Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia<br />
Award (for the coverage of<br />
the death of Pope John Paul<br />
II), Craig has produced more<br />
than 800 stories in 48 states<br />
and six countries.<br />
Craig and his wife Nicole<br />
(a former chef at <strong>Mowglis</strong>)<br />
have two children, Audry (2)<br />
and Cooper (6 mos.), and live<br />
in Glastonbury, Conn.<br />
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Chris Hedges<br />
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist<br />
<strong>Mowglis</strong> camper years: ‘65-’69<br />
Chris Hedges, as a former foreign<br />
correspondent for The<br />
New York Times, has been<br />
shot at, shelled, bombed,<br />
ambushed, and even captured.<br />
Throughout his news career,<br />
Chris reported from more<br />
than fifty countries, and also<br />
worked for The Christian<br />
Science Monitor, National<br />
Public Radio, The Dallas<br />
Morning News and The New<br />
York Times.<br />
Chris was part of The New<br />
York Times team that won the<br />
2002 Pulitzer Prize for the<br />
paper's coverage of global terrorism.<br />
That same year he<br />
received the 2002 Amnesty<br />
International Global Award<br />
for Human Rights Journalism.<br />
Chris has since left The<br />
New York Times to teach and<br />
write books on war, politics<br />
and society.<br />
Chris is married, has two<br />
children, and lives in New<br />
Jersey.
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