Jere Hester is founding director of the award-winning NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Hester, a former city editor of the New York Daily News, also writes a pop culture column for NBC Local Integrated Media. He is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lives with his wife, Theresa Wozunk, and their daughter, Ella, in a house filled with music.