Tom McArthur

Stuff • 3rd October 2023

Stuff.co.nz

I'm a freelance homepage and world news editor for Stuff – Aotearoa's best news and culture website. Check us out here.

Media Makers • 1st March 2022

Cafeyn X The Guardian Foundation

The Media Makers programme offers work placements in journalism. The scheme aims to provide you with the training and experience you need to break into journalism. It particularly focuses on the production side of journalism, which includes sub-editing, digital curation, monetisation of content and writing headlines.

Cafeyn.co • 1st December 2021

Cafeyn: Head of Editorial

Spotify for magazines! Leadership and editorial, social & audio content strategy to grow audience and support monetisation in the premium content subscription space (D2C, B2B and B2B2C)

Daily Mirror • 3rd September 2020

Daily Mirror

News edited on a busy newsdesk during the pandemic to support coverage of major stories & journalism that influenced the public conversation. Read my occasional contributions from the content mine here.

Yahoo Finance UK • 19th December 2019

This eight-year-old boy makes $26m a year on his YouTube channel

It's fair to say Ryan Kaji makes more pocket money than most kids his age.

Yahoo Finance UK • 31st July 2019

Fortnite Battle Royale: the game making teenage millionaires

A packed stadium with thousands of screaming fans isn’t what many people imagine when they think of computer game competitions.

Yahoo Finance UK • 21st June 2019

You are more likely to get your wallet back if it's full of cash

Our own self image as an honest person is more important than a quick hit of cash.

Yahoo Finance UK • 21st May 2019

China trade war fight song goes viral

A bombastic song that glorifies the trade war between the United States and China is going viral on social media.

Team Rubicon UK • 14th March 2019

Greyshirt Reflections: Maria's story

Greyshirt Reflections: A series of videos highlighting TRUK's awesome Greyshirt volunteers and their backgrounds.

Team Rubicon UK • 9th February 2019

Team Rubicon UK in Indonesia

Video explaining the role of TRUK volunteers deployed to help in the aftermath of the December 2018 earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia.

Team Rubicon UK • 6th February 2019

TRibecast Episode two: David Wiseman

TRibecast from Team Rubicon UK. CEO Richard Sharp talks to one of our first Greyshirts, David Wiseman. Video series I produced for TRUK.

Team Rubicon UK • 6th February 2019

Nepal 2015: The birth of Team Rubicon UK

Social video produced for TRUK explaining the charity's first ever full overseas operation, responding to the devastating earthquake in 2015

Forces Network • 5th January 2019

'Like There's Been A Bomb': Team Rubicon UK On Tsunami Aftermath

One member of the aid relief group, Team Rubicon UK, has compared the aftermath of the tsunami in Indonesia to "like there's been a bomb".

Team Rubicon UK • 22nd December 2018

Indonesia tsunami: Operation Sunda Strait

On 22 December 2018 a landslip from the Anak Krakatau volcano eruption sent waves surging into the Sunda Strait without warning, killing at least 437 people and wrecking hundreds of communities on the coastlines of western Java and south Sumatra, Indonesia.

Team Rubicon UK • 1st September 2018

Who are Team Rubicon? - YouTube

A short promo video I produced to promote Team Rubicon UK.

The Telegraph • 24th August 2018

Crossing the Rubicon: The disaster charity offering veterans another chance to serve

The veterans creating calm in chaos' – A great feature about TRUK we got placed in the Daily Telegraph that helped highlight our lifesaving mission.

upday UK • 21st May 2017

General Election 2017: A manifesto guide

From ‘dementia tax’ to the legalisation of weed – here’s what you need to know.

upday UK and Ireland • 23rd December 2016

Seven things that sucked in 2016

2016 has been… a toughie, to say the least. UK Editor-in-Chief Tom McArthur looks at seven things in the news that truly sucked this year.

Axel Springer SE • 19th February 2016

UPDAY headhunts Execs from Guardian and ITV News

Axel Springer and Samsung-backed news platform, UPDAY, has underlined its ambitions in the UK with two senior appointments ahead of a number of important product announcements in the coming weeks.

ITV News • 6th January 2016

Thousands face starvation in besieged Syrian town of Madaya

Just a few years ago, Madaya was a popular holiday resort among the Damascus well-to-do, lying just 30 miles from the capital. Today it is under siege from regime forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, with residents cut off and unable to escape.