· Broadcasting Board of Governors, Chairman since August 2002
· Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Chairman since Sept. 2003
PREVIOUS:
· Appointed by President Clinton to the CPB Board in September 2000
· President & Director of the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, VA (1999)
· Member of the U.S. Board for International Broadcasting (1986-1994)
· Chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1985)
· Reader's Digest, Managing Editor
Retired from Digest in 1996
Editor-in-chief in 1989
Executive Editor in 1985
· Director of the Voice of America (1982)
· Worked out of the Digest's Paris bureau covering events in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. (1977-1978)
· Joined the Washington bureau of Reader’s Digest, then served as a correspondent in Vietnam (1968)
· Reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1965.
BOOKS:
P.O.W., a history of American prisoners of war in Vietnam, co-author
PERSONAL:
Married to Rebecca Moore Tomlinson, a former Congressional aide, they have two sons. William M. Tomlinson, a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University, works at CNN-Sports Illustrated in Atlanta and Lucas Y. Tomlinson is at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.
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