Tom Spender Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Singapore

Managing a team of journalists in the BBC's Singapore bureau - deciding how to cover news in China and the rest of the region in a way that engages readers and attracts more people in Asia to the BBC News website and app while also serving readers in the US, UK and elsewhere. I've also been rebuilding the team here and helping reconfigure how online works with the rest of the BBC so we make the most of our resources and deliver coverage with real impact

London, England, United Kingdom

Senior journalist covering global news for the BBC News website: news editing - deciding what to cover and how to cover it - along with writing major breaking stories and sub-editing other writers' work

London, United Kingdom

Covering news from around the world for BBC News online

London, United Kingdom

Freelance broadcast journalist at BBC World News

London, United Kingdom

Radio journalist at the now defunct Voice of Russia radio in London, producing the day's coverage, making radio news and feature packages, hosting debates and taking photos and video for the website. Main areas of focus included the Middle East, China and international politics in general

China/Asia

Freelance journalist, editor and photographer in China, Myanmar and Thailand, writing for publications including The National in Abu Dhabi, IPS News and IRIN, a web-based humanitarian news agency run by the UN. Major topics included UN climate change negotiations in Bangkok, civil society in China and the Chinese internet. While in Beijing I worked as a reporter at the Blue Ocean Network, a Beijing-based English-language satellite TV station, where I appeared on camera, carried out interviews, wrote scripts and edited video. Also worked as an editor for the Global Times, an English-language newspaper.

Beijing City, China

While in Beijing I worked as a reporter at the Blue Ocean Network, a Beijing-based English-language satellite TV station, where I appeared on camera, carried out interviews, wrote scripts and edited video.

Abu Dhabi, Uae

Staff reporter at The National in Abu Dhabi, covering domestic UAE issues including security and the drive to get more Emiratis into work. Launched the newspaper’s Twitter feed.

Beijing City, China

Freelance journalist and photographer in China, covering the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for The National.

Israel/Palestine

Launched coverage of Israel/Palestine for IRIN - irinnews.org - a humanitarian news website run by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is part of the UN. The work involved reporting on the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict and subsequent emergencies and managing a team of journalists spread across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Israel/Palestine

Freelance journalist in Israel/Palestine, providing stories for the Al Jazeera English-language website and Emirates Today, a daily newspaper in Dubai, UAE (since relaunched as Emirates 24/7).

Dubai, Uae

Staff reporter at Emirates Today, a daily newspaper published in Dubai, UAE, since relaunched as Emirates 24/7.

Damascus, Syria

Freelance journalist based in Damascus, Syria, contributing to publications including the Christian Science Monitor in the US, IRIN, a humanitarian news website run by the UN, and the Catholic Herald in the UK.

London, United Kingdom

Shift work at The Mail on Sunday, a national newspaper in the UK.

London, United Kingdom

Shift work at the Daily Express, a national newspaper in the UK.

London, United Kingdom

Staff reporter at National News, a London-based press agency, reporting breaking news all over the capital.

London, United Kingdom

Staff reporter at the Hendon & Finchley Times, a local newspaper. Covered everything that went on in this multicultural corner of northwest London and received the ‘story of the year’ award for identifying a bombmaker who blew himself up.

London, United Kingdom

Short period of reporting at this daily-updated financial news website after the monthly magazine I previously worked at at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC was discontinued.

London, United Kingdom

Staff reporter at eVantage, a monthly magazine focussing on internet business. The title was discontinued in February 2001.

Ba Hons 2:1, French And German

Four-year degree course in French and German, including semesters at the Universität Leipzig in Germany and L'Université de Paris 8.

National Council For The Training Of Journalists (Nctj) Postgraduate Course In Newspaper Journalism, Newspaper Journalism

Six-month postgraduate course in newspaper journalism, including 100 words per minute shorthand and UK libel law.