Sam Hurst

Sam Hurst is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentarian. In 1993, he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard University, where he studied evolutionary biology. Following his retirement from NBC News, Hurst and his family moved to the Black Hills where he owned and operated a buffalo ranch and continued to produce documentary movies, including The Coming Plague for Turner Broadcasting, Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb for PBS and Good Meat for Native American Public Television. Hurst has written extensively about food and agriculture policy and South Dakota culture and politics.