Tom Richell is The Independent's Head of Multimedia. He joined the publication in 2017 as Head of Video, before moving into a more broad role two years later. He leads a team of more than 20 journalists, producers and editors covering a wide variety of topics in news, sport, culture and lifestyle areas. During his time at The Independent he launched the Independent TV platform, to focus on high quality, original production video - with marquee shows such as Behind The Headlines, On The Ground and Decomplicated now featuring regularly. Prior to The Independent, Tom worked as a Video Producer for The Sun in London, and has also worked as a journalist in Bristol, UK and Cape Town, South Africa.