Thomas Dooley is a lecturer in the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a two-time Emmy award-winning multiplatform producer with expertise in digital content strategy, video production, photojournalism and long-form documentary. He is currently exploring immersive storytelling in journalism.

His career has taken him across five continents always in pursuit of compelling stories. During his career he has been involved with nearly every level of production - behind the camera as a videographer, behind the computer as an editor, and supervising colleagues as a producer.

As a Producer for PBS, he produced over 150 short-form segments for TV and social media. He has also produced, filmed and edited long-form documentaries for national television distribution such as Dialogue In Metal and the Emmy award-winning Music for Life: The Story of New Horizons.

This is a feature done by my alma mater, SUNY Geneseo. The series is called Knightlight.

WXXI News: Connections with Evan Dawson

Hear a podcast about WXXI's new film, Dialogue In Metal: http://www.wxxinews.org/post/connections-new-documentary-dialogue-metal

Tom studied Cultural Anthropology at SUNY College at Geneseo, and received a Master's degree in International Documentary Photography from University of Bolton's program in China. His work has been seen in Le Monde's M Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, Financial Times China, France24, Reuters UK, Zagat, Frommers Travel Guides, Rochester CITY Newspaper, Rochester POST Magazine and Rochester Magazine.

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