Senior Executive Producer
Dr. Tom Skinner is senior executive producer at Free To Choose Media.
Tom is an award-winning television and film executive producer, with over 50 years and 150 documentaries to his credit, most notably as executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning National Geographic specials and Planet Earth on PBS. He is an experienced innovator and administrator with a solid academic background. His experience includes national and international production credentials in both public and commercial television.
From 1970 through 1993, Tom Skinner served as vice-president, executive vice-president, and chief operating officer of QED Communications, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1993, he left to pursue opportunities in independent production for A&E, Discovery and Turner Broadcasting. From 1994 through 1999, he was vice-president for programming at Resolution Productions of Burlington, Vermont.
Prior to his tenure at QED Communications, Tom was assistant manager at WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania and Associate Professor of Radio and Television and executive producer at San Diego State University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including: four national Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and a Columbia/DuPont Award. He was director of the Academy Award-winning documentary film Journey Into Self.
Tom holds a BA degree in Speech and Education from the State University of New York, Fredonia; an MA in Communications and a Ph.D. in Communications and Theatre from the University of Michigan.
Tom lives in Michigan; he has three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Free To Choose Media productions:
2023 - Free To Speak 2023 - We Hold These Truths 2021 - Corporate Welfare: Where's the Outrage? 2021 - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 2020 - A More or Less Perfect Union 2018 - Sweden: Lessons for America? 2018 - The Price of Peace 2017 - Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare 2017 - Is America In Retreat? 2017 - School Inc. 2016 - The Real Adam Smith 2016 - Trailblazers: The New Zealand Story 2015 - India Awakes
2015 - Power to the People 2014 - Unlikely Heroes of the Arab Spring 2014 - Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools 2013 - Economic Freedom in Action: Changing Lives 2012 - Europe's Debt: America's Crisis? 2012 - Globalization at the Crossroads 2012 - Testing Milton Friedman 2011 - Free or Equal 2010 - Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years 2009 - The Power of the Poor 2007 - The Ultimate Resource 2007 - The Power of Choice