Garvin Thomas Snell, known professionally by his screen name Garvin Thomas is a television journalist currently with NBC Bay Area,
KNTV
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, in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. He is a reporter, photographer, editor, and sometimes fill-in anchor.
[Garvin Thomas's Bio](_blank)
''NBC Bay Area'' He is in charge of th
franchise, which "profiles the people, the groups, and the companies making the Bay Area, and the world, a better place to live."
''NBC Bay Area'' Prior to joining NBC Bay Area, Thomas had worked in Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and overseas in Berlin, Germany.
Education
Garvin grew up in
Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
Yarmouth Port is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yarmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,320 at the 2010 census.
Yarmouth Port was home to the original Christmas Tree Shops until its clo ...
, and graduated from
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School is a suburban public high school (grades 812) in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It opened in 1957 and was expanded and renovated in 1979, and again in 2006. The school serves the communities of Yarmout ...
in 1984.
He then went on to pursue his degree at
Boston College
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
, where he majored in Germanic Studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1988.
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/ref> He also attended the Universitat Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany
Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...
for one year.
Professional career
His stories are produced under KNTV
KNTV (channel 11), branded as NBC Bay Area, is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's NBC network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Sta ...
'
Bay Area Proud
banner.
Since debuting the Bay Area Proud franchise in 2013, Garvin has produced more than 500 stories. Some highlights among those are storie
a ttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Santa-Clara-12-Year-Old-Creates-Low-Cost-Braille-Printer-Out-Of-Lego-247716461.html 12-year-old who created a low-cost Braille printer out of Lego an
an Oakland man using illegally dumped trash to create small homes for the homeless
Thomas has experience throughout multiple aspects of television journalism. According to his bio, he "started out at NBC Bay Area as a general assignment reporter, but his responsibilities and skills have grown over the years." He is versatile as a writer, reporter, photographer, editor and fill-in anchor. He "also shoots and edits all his own stories."
Career History
Thomas has more than two decades of experience working in television news, and has worked in Boston (on two separate occasions), Berlin, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. He joined NBC Bay Area in 2004.Berlin, Germany
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent ...
, where he was the Associate Producer for World Monitor.[Garvin and Karen's 'enchilada'](_blank)
''Cape Cod Times''
Awards
Garvin has won multiple national, regional, and local awards for both his reporting and photography.Sigma Delta Chi Award
The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vital ...
for feature reporting, a 1st and 2nd place in the 2015 National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism competition, and eight regional Emmy awards.
He has won numerous other awards as well:
*2020 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist - No Time Limit
*2019 Northern California Emmy Award: Writer
*2019 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist - No Time Limit
*2018 Northern California Emmy Award: General Assignment Report
*2017 Edward R. Murrow Award, Region 2, Writing
*2016 Northern California Emmy Award: Writer [https://emmysf.tv/files/2016/10/Emmy16RecPR.pdf ]
*2016 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist - No Time Limit [http://stage.nbcuni.com/corporate/newsroom/nbc-bay-area-leads-the-winners-at-the-42nd-annual-northern-ca-emmy-awards/]
*2013 Northern California Emmy Award: Video Journalist - No Time Limit
Personal life
In December 2002, Garvin and his wife, Karen, quit their jobs as news reporters at Boston area TV stations to spend a year travelling the world. The Cape Cod Times published
story about their trip
prior to their departure, and detailed the preparations that went into the trip. Their website chronicling the journey says,
On December 1st, 2002 Garvin and Karen headed off on a once in a lifetime adventure. We left our jobs, gave up our apartment, and put our stuff in storage in order to backpack around the world. One year, 6 continents, 17 countries, and countless miles later we returned to the United States.
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Currently, Garvin and his wife live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with their three children.
References
External links
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Living people
American television journalists
People from the San Francisco Bay Area
American male journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)