Tom Fenton Biography
Tom Fenton is a former CBS News television correspondent who retired in 2004 after a 34-year career. Fenton began his journalism career as a domestic and overseas correspondent for the Baltimore Sun from 1961 to 1969.
Tom Fenton Age
He was born Thomas Trail Fenton on 8 April 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Tom is 93 years old as of April 2023.
Tom Fenton Education
Fenton graduated from Dartmouth College in 1952 with a B.A. in English.
Tom Fenton Wife
Tom is happily married to his wife.
Tom Fenton CBS News – Career
From 1952 until 1961, he was an officer in the United States Navy, serving on destroyers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In 1952, he was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis.Fenton began his media career after leaving the navy as a domestic and foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, where he worked from 1961 until 1969. He covered events in the Middle East and Europe for the Sun, including the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1968 “Days of May” in Paris. In 1970, Fenton joined CBS News as a Rome-based journalist and conducted the first interview with Palestinian Liberation Organization prisoners seized that year.
He later reported on the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Fenton was the first Western journalist to meet Ayatollah Khomeini after the Shah of Iran was deposed in 1979. He later returned to Tehran to cover the hostage crisis in Iran. During the first Gulf War, Fenton was in Israel to report on the effects of Iraqi Scud missile attacks. Later that year, he was in Moscow to cover the Soviet Union’s demise. During the 1990s, Fenton covered Balkan wars as well as turmoil in the Middle East and Africa.
Fenton worked for CBS as a bureau chief in Rome, Italy (1970-1973), Tel Aviv, Israel (1973-1977), Paris, France (1977-1979), London, United Kingdom (1979-1994), Moscow, Russia (1994-1996), and London again (1996-2004). Following his retirement, Fenton wrote Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All, which was published in 2005.
Tom Fenton Net Worth
Thomas has an estimated net worth of 14 million dollars.