User:Tommy cummings

Tommy Cummings (born 1958) is an American journalist.

Career

Cummings has worked for The Dallas Morning News as an assistant managing editor for the Downtown Zone of neighborsgo, a niche publication, since 2007. He also worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1993-2000 and again from 2002-2007. From 2000-2002, he worked at the San Francisco Chronicle as a sports copy editor and the Night Sports Editor. He wrote a column about sports issues on the Internet at the Star-Telgram and at the Chronicle.

Background

Cummings also worked for the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune before it folded in 1992. He resumed his career at the Belo-owned Richardson News in 1992 before taking a job as a copy editor at the Star-Telegram.

Cummings also was sports editor for the Muskogee (Daily) Phoenix from 1981-1985 and the paper's assistant city editor from 1986-1989. He also worked as a sports news editor at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, Ark.

He began his career at the McAlester (Okla.) Democrat and also worked at the Henryetta (Okla.) Daily Free-Lance.