Adam Nixon

At Johns Hopkins, Adam Nixon serves as a lecturer in the MA in Communication program where he draws on his experiences as an Emmy-nominated and Tele Award-winning television producer and filmmaker. His portfolio includes work with NBC News Washington, CNN, ABC News New York, Fox Television, and on many documentary films.

Nixon has produced more than 1,000 television broadcasts from the Middle East to Middle America. For MBN, a former sister-station to Voice of America, he helmed Inside Washington, the longest-running show in network history. Additionally, he directed and executive-produced the network’s social media-based U.S. Unit, making content for Instagram, X/Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. His team reached 130+ million online views with science, history, and cultural content. Previously, he was the show producer of the nationally syndicated McLaughlin One-on-One on PBS and a senior producer on The McLaughlin Group on NBC.

Nixon was the writer, director, and executive producer of the feature film comedy Aspirin for the Masses. The film garnered recognition for Best Feature United States at the San Francisco Global Movie Fest, the Audience Award at the Cannes Underground Film Festival, and was an Official Selection of the St. Tropez and Milan International Film Festivals – among others. A finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Competition he was an Official Selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and the Mountain Film Festival for screenwriting. His plays have been presented at festivals in London, Romania, Switzerland, and the U.S. He is a member of University of Maryland’s Communication Department as a Senior Lecturer in digital visual communication.

Nixon’s book No-Budget Feature Filmmaking in the Digital Era was published in 2025 by Palgrave-Macmillan.