Tom is a co-author of the Distributed Newsroom Playbook. He has ten years’ experience working at the intersection of technology and journalism, leading high-impact international media projects and driving product strategy for collaborative technologies. Formerly Director of Programs at Meedan, Tom led Check Global, a programme dedicated to developing innovative open source tools and training programs for journalists, fact checkers and human rights researchers around the world. Tom is the co-founder of Pop-Up Newsroom, which has led major collaborative reporting initiatives in the UK, US, Mexico, India and Indonesia since launching in 2017, including the award-winning Verificado 2018.

Tom has moderated panels and led workshops on digital journalism at the International Journalism Festival, Online News Association, Personal Democracy Forum, RightsCon, Stockholm Internet Forum, Prix Italia, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and the European Journalism Center's News Impact Summit. He has worked extensively with journalists in some of the Middle East, Europe and Latin America's leading newsrooms, as well as with citizen journalists from around the world, to research eyewitness media and lead training in verification skills.

Tom holds an MBA from the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona.