User:Englander44/Sean Michael Thomas

Sean Michael Thomas is a television broadcast news journalist, author and illustrator currently living in Moscow, Russia. Thomas was born in Jakarta, Indonesia where he attended the Jakarta International School until he moved to the United States where he attended junior high and part of high school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Thomas graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1992 before attending Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. As a broadcaster, he is known on-air by his first and last name only, while his credits as an author list him with all three of his given names, Sean Michael Thomas.

Television Broadcasting
Currently Thomas is an international correspondent for Russia Today having worked in the main Moscow office of the network since August of 2009. Working for RT Thomas has covered the missing cargo vessel the MV Arctic Sea as well as the deadly accident at Russia's Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electrical power plant. Before working at RT, he was multimedia journalist and general assingment reporter for KSEE 24 News and KMPH Fox 26 News in Fresno, Califonia.

Between August 2004 and May 2006 Thomas worked in the Ft. Myers, Florida media market or the Fox affiliate station, WFTX. Working in Southwest Florida Thomas covered the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season which included covering Hurricane Katrina from the Gulf Coast. Having grow up in Indonesia,and because he was able to speak the language, Thomas was also sent to Banda Aceh to cover the aftermath following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunmi.

Though having worked in broadcast radio for several years prior, Sean Michael Thomas started his television career as a news photographer for WPBN-TV in Traverse City, Michigan in July of 2003.

Writing
Thomas is both the author and illustrator of an english language children's book Sedikit-Sedikit Menjadi Bukit: Little by Little We Climb the Mountain (ISBN: 1606724843). The book was released in November of 2008.

As a freelance writer Thomas has written articles for Fresno Magazine, Valley Health Magazine and Senior Life Magazine.