Garvin Thomas Biography
Garvin Thomas is a television journalist working for NBC Bay Area, KNTV. He is a reporter, photographer, editor, and sometimes fill-in anchor. He manages the Bay Area Proud franchise, Prior to joining NBC Bay Area, Thomas worked in Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Berlin, Germany.
Garvin Thomas Age
Thomas was born Garvin Thomas Snell, in the United States of America.
Garvin Thomas Education
Garvin was raised in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School in 1984. He then attended Boston College, where he majored in Germanic Studies and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1988. He also studied at the Universitat Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany, for a year.
Garvin Thomas Career
His stories are created by KNTV’s Bay Area Proud Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine banner. Garvin has written over 500 stories for the Bay Area Proud series since its launch in 2013. Some of the highlights include stories about a woman with terminal disease being given a fantasy wedding, a 12-year-old who built a low-cost Braille printer out of Lego, and an Oakland guy who used illegally dumped rubbish to build miniature homes for the poor. Thomas has extensive experience in several facets of television journalism. According to his Wikipedia page, he “started out at NBC Bay Area as a general assignment reporter, but his responsibilities and skills have grown over the years.” He is a versatile writer, reporter, photographer, editor, and fill-in anchor.
Besides that, he “also shoots and edits all his own stories.” Thomas has over two decades of experience in television news, having worked in Boston (twice), Berlin, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. He joined NBC Bay Area in 2004. He previously worked for KABC Los Angeles for a brief period in early 2004, WHDH in Boston for five years, and WCCO in Minneapolis, Minnesota for five years. He also worked at Monitor Broadcasting in Berlin, Germany, where he was the Associate Producer for World Monitor.
Garvin Thomas Awards
Garvin has received numerous national, regional, and local accolades for his reporting and photography. These prizes include the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature reporting, first and second place in the 2015 National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition, and eight regional Emmys.
Thomas Net Worth
Thomas as an estimsted net worth of 1 million dollars.