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Tim Tooten, one of the longest-tenured and best-recognized education reporters in the region, retired in 2023 after 35 years with WBAL and more than 40 years in journalism.

Source: Jessica Gallagher / The Baltimore Banner

Tim Tooten, a veteran Baltimore television journalist and nondenominational Christian pastor who founded a Baltimore County church, has died, WBAL-TV announced Sunday night.

Tooten, one of the longest-tenured and best-recognized education reporters in the region, retired in 2023 after 35 years with WBAL and more than 40 years in journalism. In addition to his roles at the station and at the Harvest Christian Ministries church in Nottingham, Tooten served as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Maryland, where he taught broadcast journalism.

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