Al Tompkins, a renowned journalist, broadcaster and educator, will speak at the East Tennessee History Center on Oct. 2 about Artificial Intelligence and “Truth Decay.”
The 6 p.m. talk is part of the University of Tennessee Media Center Speaker Series.
Artificial Intelligence is a tsunami of disruption washing over everything from the 2024 Election cycle to nearly every business, classroom, medical laboratories and factories. Tompkins will discuss how this fast moving technology affects elections and public trust.
His talk is free and open to the public.
The East Tennessee History Center is at 601 S. Gay Street.
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About Al Tompkins
Tompkins is one of America’s most requested broadcast journalism and multimedia teachers and coaches.
After nearly 30 years working as a reporter, photojournalist, producer, investigative reporter, head of special investigations and News Director, Tompkins joined the Poynter Institute where he was Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online.
Tompkins is now a visiting professor of broadcast and digital journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. His Tennessee ties include being a former news director of WSMV 4, a Nashville television station.
He is the author of “Aim for the Heart” a textbook about multimedia storytelling that has been adopted by more than 100 universities worldwide. He has taught in 49 states, Canada, Egypt, Denmark, South Africa, Iceland and the Caymans.
He is the recipient of some of journalism’s highest awards including The National Emmy, the Japan Prize, The American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel, The Peabody (group award), 7 National Headliner Awards, The Robert F. Kennedy Award and The Iris Award. He was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and honored with The Governor’s Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
He helped to author the national codes of ethics for both the National Press Photographers Association and the Radio and Television Digital News Association.
