Robert Hood Multimedia Supervising Producer Robert Hood leads a team of producers at msnbc.com who are responsible for multimedia storytelling from breaking news to documentary reports. Under his leadership, multimedia projects on the site received numerous awards from the Online News Association, Pictures of the Year International, and Best of Photojournalism (NPPA). In addition to teaching and speaking about online visual journalism, Robert also judged the Pictures of the Year International competition. He continues to report multimedia, covering stories in Russia, South Africa and various places around the United States while on assignment for msnbc.com. Previously, he worked as a photojournalist for daily newspapers in Utah and Wyoming. His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. He also taught classes in the University of Missouri photojournalism sequence before coming to msnbc.com in 1996.