Tom Macleod

He has anchored several live, breaking international news stories and was the writer and presenter of the Sky documentary 'Concussion: The Impact on Sport'.[1]

For the American football linebacker, see Tom MacLeod.

Tom Macleod
Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityScottish
OccupationBroadcaster, journalist
Years active2011–present
EmployerSky News
BBC
Website

Tom Macleod is a Scottish presenter for Sky News.

He has also worked for the BBC World Service and previously on commercial radio covering a range of programming. He is a trustee of the Global Legal Action Network and a passionate advocate for increased awareness of concussion and head injury in sport, supporting the leading brain injury charity Headway U.K.[2]

Early life and education

Tom was born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied music at the London Centre of Contemporary Music and earned a Bachelor of Arts. Tom went on to study journalism, getting his NCTJ at News Associates in London.

Career

In between studying, Tom freelanced for BBC London, assisting the newsroom and on-air shows. He then moved to the north of Scotland to present and produce the Afternoon Drive Time show on Waves Radio, 5 days a week.

He returned to London as a radio newsreader before joining Sky's radio service in Leeds. He then began working for both Sky Sports and Sky News.

2014-present: Sky News

Since 2014, Tom has been a presenter for Sky News. In his time at the channel, he has anchored during several major news stories including the 2016 Nice truck attack, the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt and broke news of the deaths of Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro and Carrie Fisher.

He also wrote and presented the Sky documentary 'Concussion: The Impact on Sport'.

gollark: I don't really want to do very abstract mathy stuff for ages, which is also mentioned in my notes.
gollark: A 17x17 grid is small enough that you can probably get away with inefficiency, ubq.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Oops too many newlines.
gollark: Quoted from my notes:The relevant factors for course choice are probably something like this, vaguely in order: “personal fit” - how much I'll actually like it. This is quite hard to tell in advance. During the Y11 careers interview I was recommended some kind of trial thing for engineering, but I doubt that's on now, like many other things. Probably more important than other things, as I'd spend 3-5 years on said course, will perform better if I do enjoy it, and will probably not get much use out of studying a subject I would not like enough to do work related to. flexibility/generality - what options are opened by studying this stuff? Especially important in a changing and unpredictable world. how hard a subject is to learn out of university - relates to necessity of feedback from people who know it much better, specialized equipment needed, availability of good teaching resources, etc. Likely to decline over time due to the internet/modern information exchange systems and advancing technology making relevant equipment cheaper. earning potential - how much money does studying this bring? I don't think this is massively significant, it's probably outweighed by other things quite rapidly, but something to consider. Apparently high for quantitative and applied subjects. entry requirements - how likely I am to be able to study it. There are some things I probably cannot do at all now, such as medicine, but I didn't and don't really care about those, and there shouldn't be many. Most of the high-requirement stuff is seemingly available with more practical ones at less prestigious universities, which is probably fine.

References
  1. Profile on Linkedin of Experience. Retrieved 17 July 2016
  2. Biography of Tom Macleod. Retrieved 17 July 2016


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