Tom has worked in newsrooms across south-west Queensland since 2013. Prior to his appointment at The Chronicle in 2016, he was the editor of the Western Star in Roma for 18 months. He won the 2019 Clarion Award for Regional and Community News Report (Print/Text) for his Boy In The Barrow series, which helped secure an electric wheelchair for a local boy with cerebral palsy. Growing up in Brisbane, he studied journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Away from work, he loves spending time with his partner Sarah and their daughter Macie, enjoys playing music in one of Toowoomba’s many pubs and painfully supports the Brisbane Broncos.