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]

Tom Macleod
Born
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'.

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gollark: Actually, I didn't.
gollark: Oh, wait, I think this can probably be done in a somewhat insane way which is *technically* not a lookup table.
gollark: This is EXTREMELY anomalously apioioio.
gollark: If you don't want to incorporate time, surely it should just be a table of "average % correct guesses" or something.

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