Regina McCombs is a faculty member of The Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia, and social and mobile journalism, and she is a contributor to the Mobile Media blog at Poynter.org.

She previously was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com and a field producer and photographer at KARE-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as an Emmy for her video work, she has spoken regularly around the country about how to find new ways to tell stories on the Web and mobile platforms.

McCombs was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com in Minneapolis-St. Paul for 11 years. For StarTribune.com, she coordinated the multimedia team’s coverage, shot and edited video stories, created audio slide shows, produced major projects and trained staff in creating multimedia. She arrived at StarTribune.com after 13 years as a field producer and photographer at KARE-TV, the NPPA-winning powerhouse in the Twin Cities. At KARE, she developed several database journalism projects and trained staff in CAR techniques. She also taught online journalism and TV news at the University of Minnesota, where she received her master’s degree.