Richard Hart (journalist)
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Richard Hart was a staple of Bay Area television throughout the 1980s on the popular Evening Magazine
Evening Magazine
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. EM aired at 7:30 pm nightly, with co-host Jan Yanehiro
Jan Yanehiro
-Personal life:She earned a journalism degree from California State University, Fresno in 1970.She is the Director of Multimedia Communications at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.-Television career:...

 and showcased some of the interesting and often technology-based activities and happenings around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Richard Hart created and hosted The Discovery Channel television show The Next Step. He later hosted several programs for CNET TV
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 including C|net Central (CNET
CNET
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's first project which aired on the Scifi Channel
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), and CNET News.com which aired weekly on CNBC.

After a hiatus of several years, Richard Hart is now in production of the sequel to The Next Step, called "Next Step 2.0". Distribution is scheduled to occur early in 2007. Several clips from this project have begun appearing on YouTube
YouTube
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.

For several years, Hart has been the MC for an annual contest called the Mind Duel. Hosted by Wonderfest
Wonderfest
Wonderfest is a nonprofit California corporation dedicated to informal science education. Wonderfest seeks to inspire and nurture a deep sense of wonder about the world. Through provocative public discourse about science, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning,...

, Festival of Science, in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Mind Duel pits scientists and high school students together in a battle of wits.

Currently, he is an instructor in the Multimedia Communications department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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