Russell Skelton Wikipedia, Biography, Age, Wife, Journalist ABC Bio

Personal Details Summary
Name	Russell Skelton
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	No confirmed information is available on the year he was born.
Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Spouse / Partner	Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	1
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	White
Nationality	Australian
Where is Russell Skelton now?	Russell Skelton is the founding director of the digital research hub RMIT FactLab and the international award-winning RMIT ABC Fact Check.

Wiki Information / Profile Background

Introduction :

Russell Skelton is an editor, correspondent, director and writer from Australia.
Smart and reserved, Russell is not afraid to share his opinions from time to time but is not one to speak up just for the case of it.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Russell has lived in Australia for most of his life.
In 2003, Skelton tied the knot with television and radio presenter, Virginia Trioli in a destination wedding ceremony in Italy.

The couple has quite a significant age difference but that has not stopped them from enjoying their lives and starting a family.
In 2012, Trioli gave birth to their first and only child, a son they named Addison Marcello Skelton.
The couple live in Australia and are based in Melbourne.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Skelton was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated from Monash University in Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in Law, Politics and Sociology.
During his time at Monash, he was a member of the award-winning student run newspaper, “Lot’s Wife.”

Around 1978-79, he attended Stanford University in the USA as a public policy professional journalism fellow.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

In 1981, Russell joined the team of Melbourne based newspaper The Age & worked as their OPED and Day Features editor.

Eventually, he left the publication in 1984 and began working for Fairfax Media as Deputy Editor.
Skelton moved to The Herald in 1986 & spent two years working as a business editor before moving to work as the News Limited’s Asian correspondent in Hong Kong & one of Australian’s national reporters.
Year 1991 saw Skelton join the ABC as an executive producer for their 07.30 reports. He spent two years working for the team and left in 1993 to rejoin The Age once again, this time as a state Political Editor.

He also returned to Fairfax for another four years and worked in Tokyo, Japan as their North Asian correspondent before returning for a third time to The Age as a Deputy Editor in the business management sector.
In 2002, he was promoted by the publication to a National Affairs Correspondent and eventually become Contributing Editor in 2007.
After working for The Age for over a decade, Russell joined the ABC as the editor for their Fact Check segment.

He started working for RMIT University as part of the ABC Fact Check team in March 2017 and is still currently the team’s director.
Throughout the years, he has written several published works including “Dreamtime, Boomtime” which he wrote for Fairfax Media and “Without a Home” which he wrote for ABC Fact Check.

Awards and Accolades :

Skelton has received several accolades for his work including the Association Peace Award, which was awarded to him by the UN for his work on the disadvantages Aborigines in Australia face.
He also has a Grant Hattam Quill Award, which he was awarded for his investigative journalism.

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