Since January 2002, Tom Porter has worked as president of Freedom Community Interactive Newspapers where he guides online activities for its community newspapers.

Previously, Porter was vice president of Community Newspapers for Freedom Communications. Porter was responsible for Freedom's California community newspapers as well as those in Odessa, Texas and Clovis/Portales, New Mexico. He also assumed some divisional duties overseeing the group's Newspapers in Education program (NIE), the Freedom Classified Network and the Freedom Wire.

Prior to his current workplace, Porter served as publisher of the Victor Valley Daily Press and the Barstow Desert Dispatch community newspapers, publisher of The Free Press in Kinston, North Carolina, and editor of The Tribune in Fort Pierce, Florida.

He has been a journalist since 1980 and his work has taken him from the wilds of West Virginia, where he was graphics editor at the Charleston Gazette, to the smog, sunshine and traffic of Southern California, where he was the assistant managing editor of editing and design at The Orange County Register.

Porter also served as Freedom's representative on a technology consortium of six media companies called PAFET (Partners Affiliated for Exploring Technology).

Porter is married to Pam Marshak and they have a daughter, Willis Ann.