{"id":24063,"date":"2022-05-01T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metcalfinstitute.org\/?p=24063"},"modified":"2022-05-01T20:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T00:11:46","slug":"tom-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/tom-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tom Jones is an award-winning television news and online journalist and investigative producer with NBC 5 Chicago\u2019s Consumer Investigative team.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> grew up on California\u2019s central coast, where he started his broadcast journalism career in 2005, moving to NBC 7 San Diego (KNSD-TV) to supervise investigative and consumer teams. His notable coverage included revelations about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.nbcsandiego.com_news_local_flood-2Dof-2Ddistrust-2Dwater-2Ddepartment-2Dbills-2Dmeters-2Dnbc-2D7-2Dresponds-2Dspecial_169630_&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=dWz0sRZOjEnYSN4E4J0dug&amp;r=cOdfvqfJeyB-N6kLcC7xXhqVE31XpwEvBDsEyQYdACE&amp;m=pv8H-rnk99BTU9c3sWvinlE-X8SX3StH_kcphgQxQDHXFKU2Qxy8W1YIWjKHVo5g&amp;s=2S42ZovwrBIb3hltq3RMMOMIJHA3y5S7UFpTymwB6_8&amp;e=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">local water billing disparities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and rampant mismanagement of Public Utilities staff and finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jones also contributed to NBC Chicago\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.nbcchicago.com_news_local_nbc-2Dchicago-2Dexamines-2Dthe-2Dlost-2Dstory-2Dof-2Demmett-2Dtill-2Din-2Dnew-2Ddocumentary_2732416_&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=dWz0sRZOjEnYSN4E4J0dug&amp;r=cOdfvqfJeyB-N6kLcC7xXhqVE31XpwEvBDsEyQYdACE&amp;m=pv8H-rnk99BTU9c3sWvinlE-X8SX3StH_kcphgQxQDHXFKU2Qxy8W1YIWjKHVo5g&amp;s=j_n5lI60mx_KW2BAU_7QnxEX5awaPrXr3M6ispizhog&amp;e=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently released documentary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2018The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Jones is an award-winning television news and online journalist and investigative producer with NBC 5 Chicago\u2019s Consumer Investigative team. He grew up on California\u2019s central coast, where he started his broadcast journalism career in 2005, moving to NBC 7 San Diego (KNSD-TV) to supervise investigative and consumer teams. His notable coverage included revelations about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":24064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[907],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24065,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions\/24065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}