Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins is the Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online at the Poynter Institute in St. Pete, Florida. After two and a half decades in local television, Tompkins now teaches journalists all over the world. He has been awarded many of television journalism's top honors including the National Emmy, The Peabody, The American Bar Association's Silver Gavel, The Japan Prize, The Robert F Kennedy Award, Three Gabriel Awards, Two Iris Awards and The Governor's Award from the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences. He was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Tompkins helped author the national ethics codes for the Radio and Television Digital News Association and for the National Press Photographers Association. He has worked as a photographer, reporter, producer, investigative reporter, Assistant News Director and News Director.