Professor recognized for service to community journalism
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Thomason
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Fort Worth, TX
7/20/2010
Tommy Thomason, director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism, was given the Dewane Kelly Friend of the Newspaper Award Saturday by the West Texas Press Association.
Thomason received the award at the association’s annual meeting, held in Odessa. The award is given annually to someone who has worked to promote the well-being of Texas newspapers.
The West Texas Press Association is considered the largest regional press association in the world because of the geographical area if serves. Its membership goes as far east as Dallas and as far west as eastern New Mexico.
Thomason also spoke at the convention, along with Andrew Chavez, new media specialist for the Schieffer School and associate director of the Center.
The Texas Center for Community Journalism, one of only five community journalism centers in the United States, was founded by Thomason in 2009 to build on the work the Schieffer School had been doing to support community journalism in Texas since 1998.
Thomason, who is also a professor in the Schieffer School and was the founding director of the school, has been at TCU since 1984.
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