Tom Costello Biography
Tom Costello is an American journalist and NBC News correspondent stationed in Washington, D.C. His stories can be found on NBC News platforms such as The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and CNBC.
How old is Tom Costello?- Age
Tom is 59 years old as of September 2022. He was born Thomas Eugene Costello on September 12, 1963, in Centennial, Colorado, United States of America.
Tom Costello Education
In 1987, Costello earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master’s degree in Administration/International Commerce from Boston University’s Graduate Centre in Brussels, Belgium. Costello received a certificate in Cybersecurity Risk Management from HarvardX in 2018. Dr. Tom Costello got an honorary doctor of letters degree from Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland on April 29, 2023.
Is Tom Costello Married?-Wife
He is happily married to his wife Astrid Boon of Brussels, Belgium, and together they have two children.
Tom Costello Career
Costello joined NBC News in 2004 as a correspondent in New York. He relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2005, at the invitation of then-Bureau Chief Tim Russert. Costello was the senior correspondent for CNBC Business News in New York before joining NBC News. Costello has been NBC News’ lead aviation correspondent since 2005. Among the major aviation stories he’s covered are two fatal 737-MAX crashes and the subsequent investigations; the shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner over Tehran in 2020; the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 370; the crash of Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco; Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic; Colgan Air flight 3407 in Buffalo; and Comair flight 5191 in Lexington.
Costello covered the break-in at the United States Capitol and the arrests that followed in January 2021. He’s also written about the Coronavirus outbreak and the search for a COVID vaccine; NASA’s return to crewed missions with SpaceX; the 2018-2019 government shutdown; the Philadelphia train derailment that killed eight people; the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA; and the deliberate crash of a Germanwings plane in France. Costello worked for two years at KVIA-TV in El Paso and six years at KUSA-TV in Denver before receiving a master’s degree in Brussels, Belgium, and contributing to Financial Times TV and CNN. Costello worked at CNBC Business News from 1996 through 2004.
From 1996 to 1999, he covered from London for CNBC and NBC News, covering topics such as Europe’s economic union and Princess Diana’s death, among others. He worked as CNBC’s Nasdaq correspondent from 1999 to 2002 and was in Manhattan when terrorists attacked on 9/11. Tim Russert, former NBC Washington Bureau Chief, hired Costello in 2005. He was previously employed at the NBC News headquarters in New York. The Society of Professional Journalists honoured NBC’s coverage of the Miracle on the Hudson in 2009 with the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award. Costello also oversaw NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Financial Bailout Talks in Congress, for which the network was awarded a National Emmy.
Tom Costello Awards
He has received national and regional Emmy awards, Edward R Murrow honors, National Headliner awards, the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Journalism, and awards from the Associated Press, Gannett, the Radio Television Digital News Association, the University of Colorado, and Boston University. In 2019, he became the first journalist to receive the NATCA Sentinel of Safety Award from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Tom Costello’s Net Worth
Tom has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.