Al Tompkins has been awarded many of journalism's top honors including The National Emmy, The Peabody (group award), 7 National Headliner Awards, The Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award (the highest award given by the National Press Photographers Association,) The Silver Gavel Award for justice reporting by the American Bar Association, The Japan Prize for International Reporting, The Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the disadvantaged, he was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Governors Award by the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He helped author ethics guidelines for the Radio and Television Digital News Association and the National Press Photographers Association. He authored coverage guidelines for RTDNA and co-authored five editions of the RTDNA ethics workbook. He has taught seminars and workshops in 49 states (still missing New Hampshire) as well as Egypt, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Iceland, Ecuador and beyond.Tompkins has taught at or consulted for CNN, CBC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Voice of America, The Weather Channel, The United Nations, The Sacramento Bee, WFLA, WTVF, WFAA, WTSP, KING, KUSA, WTHR, WSMV, KHOU, KSDK, Sinclair Media, Meredith Broadcasting, Shurtz Broadcasting, The Patriot-News, The Charlotte Observer, Global News, Cayman TV, Iceland public television, Telemundo, Univision, NPR, WCCO, WNBC, KCBS, WMAQ, WBBM, MSNBC and many more top stations and networks, websites and newspapers.Tompkins' book "Aim for the Heart" is used by more than 150 university journalism departments worldwide. The third edition was published in 2017. See a preview/order now https://tinyurl.com/mpmgdevHe has trained journalists around the world in writing, storytelling, ethics, critical thinking, multimedia online storytelling and writing. He also trained hundreds of journalists about specialized topics including -the drone journalism school (taught at four locations in 2017 to sold out crowds)-covering Obamacare-covering opioid abuse-covering the Deepwater Horizon spill-covering police shootings -covering jail and prison reform-covering police reform-covering guns (see my website for journalists http://coveringguns.com)