Thatcher Warrick Hess

Thatcher Warrick Hess is a reporter for AZPM with a focus on linguistics, history, language policy, and multilingual communities.

Born in California, he is a documentarian and multimedia journalist who interned at Tucson Spotlight and created his own podcast company, the Obscurity Podcast Network. A Fulbright teacher apprentice in Brazil, he is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

He got his Master's degree in Bilingual Journalism at the University of Arizona in 2025 researching the topic of a new field called "journalinguistics." His feature length documentary 'Apoloy Times' documented the strength of the last Japanese newspaper in Brazil and Portuguese magazine in Japan during an official government apology towards Japanese-Brazilians.

He is an avid cinephile, movie critic, antique collector, outdoorsman, collage artist and crossword puzzle designer. He plays soccer, table tennis and ultimate frisbee.