Joe Musser

Joe Musser is an author, filmmaker and media consultant.

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Joe Musser has published more than 50 books, including several New York Times Bestsellers. JONI was Joe Musser's all-time best selling book, which was also made into a dramatic motion picture produced and distributed by Hollywood's World Wide Pictures. Joe Musser began his career as a sports reporter at a newspaper, then was a writer-producer for a major radio chain in Chicago, where he supervised the development of 54 broadcast programs. While in Chicago Joe Musser worked in advertising and marketing, teaching creative writing classes, and produced, written or directed more than two dozen movies and 26 television productions. Joe Musser also assisted in the start-up of two network television stations in Iowa and Illinois, and later built and operated a low power TV station in Rockford, Illinois, from 1988-1999. Joe Musser is also known as an author who has collaborated with a number of famous personalities: Joni Eareckson Tada, pitching ace Tommy John, David Wilkerson, Josh McDowell, Billy Graham, Oliver North, Henry Parsons Crowell, Rochunga Pudaite and Tom Skinner.

Secretary of Board of Directors at Bibles For The World, Inc.

1972 - 2013 | Colorado Springs, CO

Joe Musser is an advisor to the founder and the president of BFW and has served as a member of the Board of Directors since 1972 to the present.

Founder/President at Joe Musser Media d/ba Blackhawk Broadcasting Corp.

1988 - 1999

Blackhawk Broadcasting Corp. was the parent of TELEVISION 8 OF ROCKFORD (IL) from 1988 to 1999, when the TV station was sold. BBC and Joe Musser Media merged in 2009 and shifted its focus to motion picture development, television, book authoring/publishing and E-Publishing.

Co-founder/President at Quadrus Media, Inc.

September 1977 - 1999

Quadrus Media, Inc., a full-service media company offered an award-winning non-theatrical film production facility and in house personnel, a television production team that did award-winning local and national commercials, as well as the Emmy and Grammy nominated PBS syndicated TV special, GOSPEL AT THE SYMPHONY, and a creative services team for advertising, marketing, print and publishing, and radio. Quadrus Media was acquired by Total Living Network, Inc. in 1999 and finalized in early 2000.

CoFounder and Secretary of Board of Directors at Bedford Center for Creative Study

1967 - 1987

CoFounded this non-profit organization with the late Dr. Melvin Lorentzen. Bedford Center was formed to host writers conferences, syposia and dialogues for interaction between different cultural disciplines (such as Arts and Media), sponsored retreats for writers, artists and performers and professional creative writing coaching.

Trinity College and Seminary

Doctor of Letters (Lit.D)

Concentration: Sielmat, Manipur, India

Activities: Doctor of Letters (Lit.D) — India Academic follows the British tradition in that this degree is the highest doctorate, above the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and is based on a long record of research and publication. The degree Lit.D is awarded to candidates whose record of published work and research shows conspicuous ability and originality and constitutes a distinguished and sustained achievement.

Honors and Awards: "Grammy" and "Dove" nominations for soundtrack of Joe Musser's Quadrus TV Production Company's GOSPEL AT THE SYMPHONY (PBS), and an "Emmy" nomination for the same national syndicated telecast. Nine Joe Musser books were New York Times bestsellers. Campus Life's "Book of the Year" for Joe Musser's biography, JONI (Zondervan, 3.5 million books sold). JONI named one of "100 CHRISTIAN BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE CENTURY." EFCA "Gold Medallion" nominations for Joe Musser's books: JONI, ACRES OF HOPE, JOSH. CHRIS statuette prize winner at 34th Annual Columbus Film Festival for Joe Musser’s film, MOODY, which he wrote, produced and directed. "Best Dramatic Film" & "Best Actor" and "Best Children's Film" for Joe Musser films, CROSSFIRE and WOLFHUNTER, awarded by CFDA. First prize to Joe Musser by Birmingham Festival of Arts, for his Radio Drama script, DAWN AT CHECKPOINT ALPHA. First prize, Alfred E. Sloane Awards, Writer-Producer for SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED WMBI radio series, Chicago. Listed in Who’s Who In America, Men of Achievement (Cambridge).