Nationality Scottish Website Official Website | Years active 2011–present Employers Sky News, BBC | |
Occupation Broadcaster, journalist | ||
Tom Macleod is a presenter for Sky News.
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He has previously worked for Sky Sports and was the writer and presenter of the Sky documentary 'Concussion: The Impact on Sport'.
He has worked for the BBC and on commercial radio covering news, music, and sports programming. He is a passionate advocate for increased awareness of concussion and head injury in sport and is proud to support the leading brain injury charity Headway U.K.
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. In 2013 Tom studied 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 newsreader for talkSPORT and acted as News Editor on several occasions before joining Sky's radio service in Leeds. He then began working for both Sky Sports and Sky News.
2014-present: Sky News
Tom is a presenter at Sky News. In his time at the channel, he has anchored during several major news stories including the 2016 Nice 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'.