Tom Elko is news director at BringMeTheNews.com, an innovative curated news-site based in Minneapolis, Minn. Developed with award-winning Twin Cities investigative journalist and TV news anchor, Rick Kupchella, BringMeTheNews focuses on ensuring the highest-quality news and information available is distributed as widely as possible.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in political science, he covered politics, the environment and technology for the Minnesota Independent. In 2008, he covered the U.S. Senate election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman for the ground-breaking video-journalism organization, The UpTake. Tom is a former fellow of the Center for Independent Media and the Knight School of Environmental Journalism’s Great Lakes Journalism Training Institute.
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