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When Lorie Wyant Stingo was a student of Dr. George Arnold in Marshall’s School of Journalism, she never enjoyed trying to come up with several columns of text for her news assignments. Instead, Arnold was impressed by her ability to boil down the facts from the big picture into a good news story. He encouraged her to get into broadcast journalism, and that choice has driven her career ever since.
When Lorie graduated in 1986 she was hired as the 6 and 11 p.m. news anchor and reporter for WBOY-TV in Clarksburg. She also taught undergraduate broadcasting courses for Salem-Teikyo University. In 1991 she took a position as a public relations representative for Monongahela Power in Fairmont, now Allegheny Power Company.
Lorie left there in 1996 to join the FBI as a policy compliance auditor for the National Crime Information Center in Clarksburg. In June 1997 she was hired as a training instructor and has held that position ever since. “Even though I was trained in broadcast journalism,” said Lorie, “it's the strong communications background that I developed at Marshall in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and other classes that continues to support my career today.”
As an FBI-certified instructor assigned to the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Lorie provides training on the policy and usage of the criminal justice information systems maintained by the Bureau and serves as a liaison between the CJIS Division and law enforcement agencies on the federal, state and local level. Most recently she has traveled across the nation to provide instruction on the Joint Automated Fingerprint Identification System, or JABS, a livescan device used by FBI Special Agents to electronically submit criminal fingerprints to the CJIS Division for comparison with the master files. She also serves as the Division's training coordinator for the Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization File, a part of the FBI's National Crime Information Center data base.
In addition to her lead trainer roles, Lorie represents the FBI as the training point of contact for the western region of the United States, and frequently travels to that part of the country to speak at conferences and other educational venues. In August 2004 she began hosting satellite broadcasts of "Law Enforcement Live" from the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. The show, which highlights criminal justice topics of interest to the law enforcement community, is beamed to the entire continental United States and portions of Canada and Mexico, as well as disseminated on videotape to p olice agencies around the world.
“I am a real ‘road warrior’ with increased demand for my training,” said Lorie, “typically on the road two weeks out of the month. I've had a couple of three-out-of-four week months this year, which can really be a challenge. But I love the work and always manage to make it back to Marshall whenever I can.”
In addition to her journalism activities on campus, Lorie was a resident advisor and took part in numerous student activities. She was a Flag Corps member and recently joined her Marching Band alumni members to march in the Homecoming Parade. In her senior year she had the honor of being crowned Homecoming Queen.
“Dr. Ralph Turner had a great influence on me as well,” said Lorie. “He was always instrumental in getting us good internships, both paid and unpaid. I was even able to work as a sports news intern at WOWK-TV.”
Lorie and her husband, Dave, an assistant sales manager for WBOY-TV, have an eight-year-old daughter, Victoria.
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