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Al Tompkins
801 Third Street South
St Petersburg, Florida 33701
Phone: 821-9494
Fax: 456-2368
atompkins@poynter.org
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Al Tompkins is The Poynter Institute’s Group Leader for Broadcasting and Online. More than 20,000 people a day read his online journalism story idea column “Al's Morning Meeting” on Poynter.org. Tompkins is the author of the new book Aim For The Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters, which is being used by more than 70 universities as their main broadcast writing textbook. He co-authored three editions of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation’s “Newsroom Ethics” workbook. Al joined Poynter's faculty from his job as news director at WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tenn. For 24 years, he worked as a photojournalist, reporter, producer, anchor, assistant news director, special projects/investigations director, documentary producer, and news director. His hour-long documentary, “Saving Stefani”, was featured as a special Dateline NBC and was awarded the 1999 Clarion Award. The ten-year documentary project tells the story of a young girl that Al and a medical team found dying in a Guatemala hospital. Al has trained more than 9,000 local television news producers, reporters, photojournalists and managers in his One-Day Storytelling Workshops in 37 states. During his two and a half decades as a journalist, Al has won The National Emmy, The Peabody Award (group award), the Japan Prize, The American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel for Court Reporting, seven National Headliner Awards, two Iris Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for international reporting.
Al joined Poynter in 1998 after 25 years as a journalist, including serving as a reporter, investigative reporter, Director of Special Projects and Investigations and then was appointed News Director, WSMV Nashville. Under his direction, WSMV was Nashville's leading news station.
To read an excerpt go to http://www.aimfortheheart.com
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Group Leader for Broadcast and Online |
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The Poynter Institute |
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8/1998 |
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Coordinate, plan and oversee Broadcast and Online seminars and workshops at The Poynter Institute
Al teaches in seminars at Poynter and teaches at workshops and conferences on the road. Al has been a presenter at national conventions for IRE, RTNDA, NABJ, NAHJ, AAJA, Unity,NLGJA, PRNDI and NPPA. Since 1998, Al has taught seminars and workshops in 41 states and four countries.
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