Garvin Thomas

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Garvin Thomas
Alma materBoston College
OccupationTelevision Journalist
Television KNTV NBC Bay Area
Reporter/Anchor
(2004-present)
KABC ABC Los Angeles
Reporter
(Jan 2004-Jun 2004)
WHDH NBC Boston
Reporter
(1997-2002)
WCCO CBS Minneapolis-St. Paul
Reporter
(1992-1997)
World Monitor
Associate Producer
(1989-1992)

Garvin Thomas Snell, known professionally by his screen name Garvin Thomas is a television journalist currently with NBC Bay Area, KNTV, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a reporter, photographer, editor, and sometimes fill-in anchor. [1] He is in charge of the Bay Area Proud Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine franchise, which "profiles the people, the groups, and the companies making the Bay Area, and the world, a better place to live." [2] Prior to joining NBC Bay Area, Thomas had worked in Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and overseas in Berlin, Germany. [1]

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Education

Garvin grew up in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School in 1984. [3] He then went on to pursue his degree at Boston College, where he majored in Germanic Studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1988. [3] He also attended the Universitat Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany, for one year.

Professional career

His stories are produced under KNTV's Bay Area Proud Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine banner.

Since debuting the Bay Area Proud franchise in 2013, Garvin has produced more than 500 stories. Some highlights among those are stories about a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis being given a dream wedding, a 12-year-old who created a low-cost Braille printer out of Lego, and an Oakland man using illegally dumped trash to create small homes for the homeless.

Thomas has experience throughout multiple aspects of television journalism. According to his bio, he "started out at NBC Bay Area as a general assignment reporter, but his responsibilities and skills have grown over the years." He is versatile as a writer, reporter, photographer, editor and fill-in anchor. He "also shoots and edits all his own stories." [1]

Career History

Thomas has more than two decades of experience working in television news, and has worked in Boston (on two separate occasions), Berlin, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. He joined NBC Bay Area in 2004. [1]

Previously, he worked with KABC Los Angeles for a short time in early 2004, WHDH in Boston for five years, and WCCO in Minneapolis, MN for five years.

He was also involved in Monitor Broadcasting in Berlin, Germany, where he was the Associate Producer for World Monitor. [3] [4]

Awards

Garvin has won multiple national, regional, and local awards for both his reporting and photography. [1] Among these awards are the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature reporting, a 1st and 2nd place in the 2015 National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition, and eight regional Emmy awards.

He has won numerous other awards as well:

Personal life

In December 2002, Garvin and his wife, Karen, quit their jobs as news reporters at Boston area TV stations to spend a year travelling the world. The Cape Cod Times published a story about their trip prior to their departure, and detailed the preparations that went into the trip. Their website chronicling the journey says,

On December 1st, 2002 Garvin and Karen headed off on a once in a lifetime adventure. We left our jobs, gave up our apartment, and put our stuff in storage in order to backpack around the world. One year, 6 continents, 17 countries, and countless miles later we returned to the United States. [15]

Currently, Garvin and his wife live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with their three children. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Garvin Thomas's Bio NBC Bay Area
  2. ↑ Bay Area Proud Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine NBC Bay Area
  3. 1 2 3 Who we are
  4. ↑ Garvin and Karen's 'enchilada' Archived 2013-01-18 at archive.today Cape Cod Times
  5. ↑ https://emmysf.tv/files/2018/06/Emmy18RecPR.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  6. ↑ "2017 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award Winners".
  7. 1 2 https://emmysf.tv/files/2016/10/Emmy16RecPR.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  8. ↑ "NPPA Television Best of Photojournalism Judges Announce Finalists, Category Winners". 3 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "2016 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award winners".
  10. ↑ https://emmysf.tv/files/2015/06/Emmy15RecipientPR.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  11. ↑ "2015 BOP TV Photography Winners". 6 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "2015 Region 2 Murrow Winners".
  13. ↑ "Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists".
  14. 1 2 http://stage.nbcuni.com/corporate/newsroom/nbc-bay-area-leads-the-winners-at-the-42nd-annual-northern-ca-emmy-awards/%5B%5D
  15. ↑ The Enchilada
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