TWBurton Media

Tom Burton is an assistant professor of practice at Texas A&M University where he joined the faculty in 2019 and teaches teaches courses in American mass media, mass media writing, editing, interviewing, and fact-finding. He earned his Master of Arts degree in photography from Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication in 2021 where he researched 360-degree video for non-fiction storytelling as the 2018-19 Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communication.

He is the former editor of the National Press Photographers Association, where he edited News Photographer magazine. He won multiple national awards as a photojournalist, editor and director of photography/video while working for the Orlando Sentinel for more than 30 years. He was assigned to Super Bowls, national politics, international crisis regions, celebrity portraiture, in-depth projects and and numerous space shuttle launches. He was a training and technical lead for innovation projects including introducing video to print newsrooms, the transition to digital photography, and early social media publishing. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Time, U.S. News and World Report and the Los Angeles Times.