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Tom Foreman
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Foreman graduated <a href="/facts/Magna_cum_laude/BqMYAlgN">magna cum laude</a> from <a href="/facts/Troy_University/22yFzAht">Troy University</a> in 1981 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and another in Theater Performance.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <p>In 2005, Foreman won a National Headliner Award for a feature about an American soldier who brought the Christmas spirit to a Luxembourg town during World War II. </p><p>He is the inaugural winner of the Cronkite/Jackson Prize for Fact Checking Political Messages.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="work">Work</h2> <p>On Saturday, January 19, 2013, Foreman admitted to writing a letter to President Obama every day over the previous four years—1,460 letters, totaling more than a half-million words.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>On February 4, 2014, Foreman was the moderator of the <a href="/facts/Bill_Nye%25E2%2580%2593Ken_Ham_debate/V6hgfr5j">debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham</a> on the question "Is Creation A Viable Model of Origins?" at the <a href="/facts/Creation_Museum/zphVgkqX">Creation Museum</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/foreman.tom.html">CNN biography</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150220155142/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_28th_nominees_data_list.html">27th Annual Emmy Awards</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071202205026/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_txt/news_28th_nominees_all.txt">28th Annual Emmy Awards</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030411130735/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0318_030319_basecamp.html">National Geographic</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Tom Foreman". CNN. Retrieved March 25, 2013. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/foreman.tom.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/foreman.tom.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Tom Foreman". CNN. Retrieved March 25, 2013. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/foreman.tom.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/foreman.tom.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Cronkite Award 2013 Winners Announced". The Walter Cronkite Award. Retrieved March 25, 2013. <a href="http://www.cronkiteaward.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cronkiteaward.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Foreman: My last letter to the president". CNN. January 18, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2013. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/politics/foreman-last-letter-to-president/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/politics/foreman-last-letter-to-president/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"The Two Science Guys". Retrieved November 8, 2020. <a href="https://answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/the-two-science-guys/" target="_blank">https://answersingenesis.org/creation-vs-evolution/the-two-science-guys/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>