in the Sahara Desert

Tobias Mews is a free­lance multi-media jour­nal­ist spe­cial­is­ing in health,fitness & adven­ture sports.  After serv­ing in the British Army for 5 1/2 years, Tobias devel­oped a taste for the out­doors and in par­tic­u­lar endurance sports.  He spends many of his week­ends com­pet­ing in ultra marathons, Iron­man triathlons, adven­ture races and moun­tain marathons.

Jour­nal­ism

Tobias spe­cialises in high qual­ity multi-media jour­nal­ism through the medium of video, audio, pho­tog­ra­phy, print and online.  He has been at the van­guard of video­jour­nal­ism both prac­tis­ing and in train­ing others.

After grad­u­at­ing from the pres­ti­gious City Uni­ver­sity with a PGDip in Tele­vi­sion Cur­rent Affairs Jour­nal­ism (2008–09), he became the New Media Offi­cer in the Cen­tral Office of Infor­ma­tion’s (COI) News and PR depart­ment.  Dur­ing this time he worked on a num­ber of high pro­file gov­ern­ment cam­paigns for the Depart­ment of Health, the Min­istry of Defence, the Depart­ment for Edu­ca­tion, Health and Safety Exec­u­tive, and the Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment, Food and Rural Affairs, amongst others.

Prior to work­ing at COI, Tobias was on var­i­ous work place­ments.  From Octo­ber 2008 to Jan­u­ary 2009, he worked part time for the BBC on the travel pro­gramme Fast:Track, broad­cast on BBC World News.  From Jan­u­ary to April 2009 he worked in the cur­rent affairs sec­tion of the tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion com­pany Octo­ber Films.  And in his final semes­ter he spent three months work­ing at ITN on the for­ward plan­ning desk.

Mil­i­tary

Tobias com­mis­sioned in April 2004 from the Royal Mil­i­tary Acad­emy Sand­hurst into the Royal Reg­i­ment of Artillery.

A newly com­mis­sioned 2nd Lieu­tenant, Tobias’s first post­ing was as a Troop Com­man­der with 40th Reg­i­ment Royal Artillery in Top­cliffe, North York­shire.  Upon arriv­ing at the Reg­i­ment, he imme­di­ately deployed to Cyprus on the United Nations tour — Oper­a­tion TOSCA.  In Octo­ber 2006, on pro­mo­tion to Cap­tain, he once again deployed with his sub-unit -  137 (Java) Bat­tery — to Iraq for 7 months on Oper­a­tion TELIC 9.  Based in South East­ern Iraq, near Bas­rah, Tobias was respon­si­ble for up to 45 sol­diers, lead­ing them on numer­ous oper­a­tions in sup­port of 19 Light Brigade.

On being posted to 3rd Reg­i­ment Royal Horse Artillery in Sep­tem­ber 2007, he com­pleted the Cap­tains Course, becom­ing a qual­i­fied Fire Sup­port Team Com­man­der.  He sub­se­quently returned to Iraq again for 3 months on Op TELIC 11, in Decem­ber 2007, this time with D Bat­tery.  He spent the remain­der of his time in the Army as the Oper­a­tions Offi­cer and Bat­tery Train­ing Offi­cer of M (HQ) Bat­tery in Hohne, Ger­many.  He retired his Com­mis­sion in Sep­tem­ber 2008 in order to become a journalist.

He cap­tained the Reg­i­men­tal Cross-Country, Triathlon and Ski­ing teams.

For a brief period of time he joined the Ter­ri­to­r­ial Army, becom­ing a Com­pany Sec­ond in Com­mand at the Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don Offi­cer Train­ing Corps.  He dis­cov­ered that there are only so many balls that one can jug­gle and there­fore retired!

Work Expe­ri­ence

Before join­ing the Army, Tobias car­ried out a num­ber of high pro­file work place­ments with: the United Nations in Haiti, the New York State Depart­ment of Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment in Lon­don, the com­mer­cial sec­tion of the Brazil­ian Embassy in Lon­don and the TV/Radio sta­tion Ima­gen Info­ma­tiva in Mex­ico City.

Edu­ca­tion

He stud­ied French at the Uni­ver­sity of Poitiers and Inter­na­tional Busi­ness with Span­ish at the Euro­pean Busi­ness School Lon­don (EBS).  Whilst at EBS, he spent study peri­ods abroad at Uni­ver­si­dad Adolfo Ibanez in Vina del Mar, Chile and the Uni­ver­si­dad Fran­cisco de Vito­ria in Madrid, Spain.  He holds a host PG Dip in Tele­vi­sion Cur­rent Affairs Jour­nal­ism from City Uni­ver­sity.

He speaks flu­ent French and Span­ish and has a work­ing knowl­edge of Ger­man and Italian.

Sport and Adven­ture

Tobias reg­u­larly par­tic­i­pates in run­ning races of all dis­tances (from 5k to ultra marathon) as well as triathlon (Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman and Iron­man dis­tances) and duathlon.  Tobias cap­tained this  Reg­i­men­tal ski team in Alpine down­hill ski­ing (whilst at 40RA).  He is a qual­i­fied Moun­tain Leader Trainer (Sum­mer) and holds a BSAC Open Water scuba cer­tifi­cate.  At Mill­field he under­took the Duke Of Edin­burgh Gold Award scheme.

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Mem­ber of:

Royal Tele­vi­sion Society