I crossed over from television broadcast news to online media in 2008. Moz and especially mentoring graciously provided by Gillian Muessig helped equip me for that journey.

Visual storytelling forms the core of my DNA.

My interests focus on:
-how to build, connect and interact with audiences/communities online
-use insights into online trends to create content for local TV audiences
-micro broadcasting
-lean video production techniques to eliminate the "800 pound pencil" that keeps TV reporters from being nimble
-super serving an audience no matter where they are connected

Awards
I'm grateful that my peers in journalism saw fit to recognize our reports with the highest awards of broadcast television including the coveted George Foster Peabody Award for Investigative Reporting and three Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Journalism Awards for Investigative Reporting. Both awards are respectively regarded as the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize equivalents of television. My kids didn’t fully appreciate what a Peabody was until Colbert rubbed his newly minted award in Jon Stewart’s face in 2008.

During a 27-year television news career, I reported stories that illuminated important public issues, righted wrongs, spoke truth to power, changed public policy, and in some cases saved people from harm.

You can watch my television reports:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RobertRiggsBlog

Corrupt politicians and garden-variety scoundrels knew they were in for a bad day upon hearing the ominous announcement, “Robert Riggs is here to see you!”
“Here to see you”, meant that I came armed with the facts, not opinion.

Some of the subjects of my interviews broke out into beads of sweat or stared speechless into the video camera lens like a deer caught in headlights.

In one infamous encounter, I asked a powerful Texas representative this simple question, “Who pays your rent?” A deafening sixty-second silence followed punctuated by an outburst of, “I have no comment!” Spurred on by my series of report, an FBI bribery investigation later sent the lawmaker as well as members of the Dallas City Council to federal prison.

My signature exclusive reports aired on Sixty Minutes and Nightline as well as received three Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Journalism Awards. He was also an embedded reporter with the lead Army unit during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
He currently appears as a guest contributor on The Texas Daily broadcast by KTXD-Channel 47 in Dallas.

I am Outstanding Alumnus from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University and received a Certificate of Entrepreneurship from the University of Texas at Dallas.