—Update— 7/5/2023 – I spoke with a KCPQ FOX 13 photojournalist in Tacoma today. He confirmed that Jamie Tompkins has accepted an offer for a PR position with the Seattle PD… (KUOW story confirms) Command staff at the Seattle Police Department is undergoing dramatic changes, according to an email sent to the department on Monday morning…There is also the addition of a chief of staff position – new to the department. That role goes to Jamie Tompkins, a former TV news anchor at Q13 News in Seattle. Tompkins started at Seattle Police Department in late May as the head of communications.
June 21, 2023——Off the air, off social media and her bio wiped from the KCPQ website… Viewers are asking, WHAT HAPPENED TO JAMIE TOMPKINS?
I want her back on Q-13! She was the only reason I watched the news. She is Brains and Beauty all in the same package.
Unlikely that Jamie would leave her new career for the dying tv news biz. As stations turn to more consolidation and news services from stations in other larger markets, the future is not bright for local tv news. Plus, the politics in the newsroom, favoritism, back-biting etc. etc.
I miss Jamie Tompkins a Whole lott, She was the only reason I watched the news she was/is great doing the news. I miss her so much I’m sad.
Maybe one day she will return to q13 that would be great.
We miss you on channel 13 in the evenings. It sounds like a great job. Good luck
Dang. I didn’t know that. Congrats, Jamie!
She is now chief of staff at Seattle PD according to an article I saw at KUOW.
Confirmed– a post made specifically for her. Lucky gal?
The (former) Seattle officers I know may not think so. That said I wish her well.
[OFF TOPIC, YET SAME STATION]
-Has anyone actually _seen_ Adam Mertz this past year ? (LDueweke’s beau) Any functions despite his thin instagram… In her actually including reference to him…for over a year?
from Liz Dueweke–2022 tore open cavernous holes in my heart, eroded old patterns, and gave way to revealing, massive hurt. Sometimes when all I see is loss or grief, I remember I have never truly been alone. Now I enter 2023 and those cavernous holes feel much less intimidating, patched up with the unconditional love of my chosen family. I am forever mending and healing by the hands and hearts of people who won’t ever let me fall. I am held together constantly by the hug of a girlfriend who is thrilled to see me, a morning text to make sure I am still okay, a last minute bike ride, or a cheap happy hour drink in exchange for priceless laughter and tears. I want to continue filling my life with these relationships and these memories that matter. These are my people: who despite my glaring mistakes and disgusting failures, remind me that I am loved and am still going to be okay. I am collecting the rest of my years until the day I die just like this: spilling over with gratitude for all of these moments, memories and absolute saviors who remind me why life’s beautiful instants are also worth enduring the pain and hurt. To my chosen family of friends, lovers and confidants: may you all understand my everlasting appreciation for you and be just as surrounded with the same love and support heading into this new year as you have shown me.
Liz Dueweke–DECEMBER 31, 2022
I was wondering what happened too as she hasn’t anchored the news in months
Waiting out a contract maybe?
I think that’s the case. Hope she stays in Seattle. I like her understated yet pleasant delivery.
Jamie Tompkins moved from WATE 6/Knoxville, to KOMO 4/Seattle in 2011. She met and married (2013) her husband (a director) there. She moved to KCPQ FOX 13 in January 2014.
So what happened with her?
It remains to be seen. Tompkins has gone silent on social media.