Regina McCombs is a faculty member of The Poynter Institute, teaching multimedia, mobile and social journalism. She was the senior producer for multimedia at StarTribune.com in Minneapolis-St. Paul for 11 years. She arrived there after 13 years as a field producer and photographer at KARE-TV, the NPPA-winning powerhouse in Minneapolis. Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, as well as Emmys for her video and multimedia work, she has been a regular speaker around the world, talking about finding new ways to tell stories on the Web and mobile platforms. 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 also taught classes in online journalism and TV news at the University of Minnesota, where she received her master's degree. She contributes to Poynter.org's Mobile Media blog.