Tom Felle is a former career journalist and foreign correspondent. He worked for a decade as a reporter covering politics and as a regional correspondent at The Irish Independent (Dublin); as Bureau Chief of the Leb News Agency (Beirut); and as Deputy Editor of The Irish Echo (Sydney). He has published papers and has co-edited three books on data journalism, transparency, and freedom of information. He lived and worked in London from 2013 to 2018 and is now Head of Journalism and Communication at the National University of Ireland in Galway.