Eric Kuhn might still be a junior at Hamilton College, but has taken the world of citizen journalism by storm, receiving high praise for his work in print, television, radio and online Podcasts. Arianna Huffington called Eric a "fearless journalist," television veteran Tammy Haddad said he was "the most creative, young person that came through MSNBC" and NBC News Agency SVP Bill Harnett said that Kuhn is "already a media giant and can't even legally drink!!" Kuhn started in journalism at age 17 when he became the Chief Political Correspondent for WHHS News, a local public access television show in Westchester County, NY. There, he was the only journalist to interview both Congresswoman Nita Lowey and her opponent running in NYS's 18th Congressional District. Other exclusive interviews included a half-hour sit down with the Reverend Al Sharpton, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, and CNN’s Jack Cafferty. For his high school newspaper, The Buzzer, Kuhn obtained an e-mail interview with Donald Trump.

At Hamilton College, Kuhn joined WHCL 88.7 Radio as the publicity director for the station. He is the host and executive producer of his own show, Kuhn and Company, where he conducted two - three interviews a week. The show’s pilot was with CNN’s Richard Quest. Since that time, former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, Pat Buchanan, Ron Reagan, NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer, former NJ Governor and EPA Chair Christine Todd Whitman, Murderball movie star Mark Zupan, activist Cindy Sheehan, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield (the interview was published here on MSNBC.com and on TodayShow.com), attorney David Boies and Merrill Lynch Chief US & Quantitative Strategist Richard Bernstein, and others enthusiastically came on. Ann Curry (NBC), Andrea Mitchell (NBC), Tucker Carlson (MSNBC), Allyson Stewart (MSNBC), Lisa Daniels (NBC), Lou Dobbs (CNN), Lynn Sherr (ABC), Mike Jerrick (Fox), John Montone (1010 Wins), Joe and Shirley Wershba, Arianna Huffington, Mo Rocca, Rachel Sklar, and others participated in a special series called “Media Under the Microscope,” where Kuhn tried to explore all forms of the media in today’s ever changing world.

While at school, Kuhn was the editor-at-large of his college newspaper, The Spectator, and sat on the Hamilton College Media Board as the member-at-large. Outside of school, he is the co-editor of PBase Magazine (an international photography magazine) which recently featured his exclusive interview with White House Photographer Eric Draper. Kuhn, with his signature conversational writing style, is a Huffington Post contributor (many of his articles have appeared on Yahoo! News) and was a featured blogger with Grant Heslov, Shirley Wershba and others for Report it Now, a blog based on the movie Good Night and Good Luck. He writes for MediaBistro's on going series "J-School Confidential" and published blog posts on CNBC.com's "Mad Cap," CBSnews.com's "Couric & Co" and "Public Eye" and MSNBC.com's "Hardblogger." He also is a contributor for U Wire, the leading aggregator and distributor of student-generated content, predominately on politics and international affairs, and worked as the editor-in-chief of The Campus Word which provides college journalists a platform to freely voice their opinions on anything relating to college life.

Eric is a founding partner of KRO Consulting (formally Kuhn & Consultants), a new media consulting firm helping companies link new and traditional media together. He is regularly quoted in articles regarding politics and the use of new media, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn and social media.

Currently a consultant for CBS News, last summer he was the Creative Director's intern for CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. The previous summer he was the NBC News Digital Media and Executive Office Intern working under Vice President of Digital Media Mark Lukasiewicz and Senior Vice President Cheryl Gould. Eric recently spent a semester working in Washington, D.C. for Hardball with Chris Matthews and before that NYS Senator Chuck Schumer's Press Office. During the 2005 summer, he interned for The 712 Investment Group, one of Merrill Lynch's top private client investment firms. Eric has been hailed the "King of Interns" by Video Jug where he answers questions on "how to be an intern?" One of the videos were featured as the top MSN Video.

Eric and his work have been profiled and quoted in newspapers around the world, including in the Associated Press, the Washington Examiner's Yeas and Nays column, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Editor and Publisher, The Japan Times, The South China Morning Post and the Syracuse Post-Standard. The widely read glossy Westchester magazine iNTown has recently featured Kuhn, ABCNEWS.com qutoed him on Facebook issues, and Eric has received shout-outs in top blogs such as TVNewser, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, Inside Cable News and What's Happening at CNN. On November 11, FishbowlDC, linked to EricKuhn.com, for he was the first to conduct a radio interview with Daryn Kagan on her new web site. Kuhn was also on NPR's Patt Morrison show on KPCC 89.3 Southern California Public Radio to talk about Facebook and WOR Radio’s The Joey Reynolds Show to talk about new media. He was also profiled on WBU 11, as well as NBC-WKTV.

Eric is majoring in Government at Hamilton, but currently studying at the London School of Economics for his junior year abroad. When not at school, he resides outside of New York City and in Vermont. He is an avid skier, photographer, and loves New York City for the music, theatre, food, art and everything else that makes the City tick (including Starbucks)! Kuhn is also passionate about bettering the life of all New Yorkers. He is the former co-president, and soon to be board member, of Project SHARE, a non-profit which helps build relationships between the homeless and high school students. Currently he is the Public Relations Director of Redemption Inc., a non-profit which encourages the self-empowerment and education advancement of underserved youth ages 13 - 19 in the Brooklyn area by promoting intergeneration learning, youth service, and advocacy.

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