Rick Thompson wasn’t “officially” born in the Lone Star State, but has called North Texas home for nearly three decades, working at local network affiliates WFAA, KXAS and KDFW before coming to KERA. As Director of Multimedia Production, Thompson is part of a larger team at KERA that focuses on creating documentaries and news and public affairs programming across multiple media platforms. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1977, and says he could not have imagined when starting out as a film editor that he would engage in the digital media revolution now under way. In addition to serving as executive producer of the Texas Debates and KERA's CEO and Think, Thompson has been involved in many local and statewide documentaries including Nowhere But Texas, JFK: Breaking the News, Matisse & Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, Richard Avedon: In the American West – A Twentieth Anniversary Special, Finding Our Voice: The Dallas Gay & Lesbian Community, Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial: A Place of Healing, New Tastes From Texas With Chef Stephan Pyles, Life in the Balance: The Health Care Crisis in Texas and On the Record, among others. He makes his home among many great public television and radio supporters in the Winnetka Heights neighborhood of Oak Cliff.
