Tom Felle
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in Journalism and New Media
- Course Director: BA in Journalism and New Media
- Section leader in Journalism
- Erasmus coordinator for Journalism
Tom Felle is a Lecturer in Journalism and a working journalist by profession. He has worked in Ireland, the UK, Europe and Australia and most recently in the Middle East as a political and foreign policy writer.
He worked for five years as a reporter and regional correspondent with the Independent Newspapers group in Dublin and for two years in Sydney, Australia, as deputy editor of the Irish Echo newspaper. He spent a year living and working in Beirut, Lebanon, following the Israeli Hezbollah war in 2006/07, as Bureau Chief of the Leb News Agency.
He is an accomplished photo-journalist and has won awards for his photography.
He played representative rugby for Connacht and was presented with a gold Gaisce award by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in 1998. In December 2007 he was presented with a service medal by the Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces, Lt Gen Dermot Earley.
He has contributed to a number of broadcasting organisations including the BBC, SBS television (Australia), and Newstalk, Today FM, RTE and TV3 in Dublin, Ireland. He continues to work as a contributor for the Sunday Business Post newspaper in Dublin.
He holds a B Sc in Communications from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Journalism from the prestigious Rathmines School of Journalism at DIT. He holds a masters degree in European politics and is currently researching a PhD at the University of Limerick.
His research interests include EU conditionality, democracy promotion and external relations, quantitative methods for social science and media influences on democracy.