| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Tom Steinfort |
| Siblings | He has has two brothers. |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | July 18. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Where did Tom Steinfort study? | Tom graduated from RMIT University in Melbourne with a degree in Journalism. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | Australian |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Tom Steinfort is an award-winning Australian journalist. He is a reporter for 60 Minutes & the co-host of the Weekend TODAY program.
- Hailing from Melbourne, Tom has covered the biggest stories in Australia and around the world over the last 15 years, reporting for various networks and programs including Nine News, TODAY, A Current Affair, Inside Story, 60 Minutes etc .
Education, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Tom studied Journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne. He got his degree while working as a reporter for WIN News in Ballarat.
- In 2007, he joined Nine News in Melbourne. He won the Young Journalist of the Year Award of the Melbourne Press and was also nominated for a ‘Walkley Award’ for his coverage of major news stories such as the Black Saturday bushfires.
- In 2010, Steinfort moved to Sydney to join the weeknights show A Current Affair. There, he contributed to the acclaimed investigation into the sexual abuse committed by actor Robert Hughes, on the set of the sitcom Hey Dad!.
- He was again nominated for the ‘Young Journalist of the Year Award’ of the Walkley Foundation for his coverage of the Japanese tsunami disaster of 2011. The same year, he reported on the Queensland floods, as well as the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand.
- In 2012, he moved back to Nine News, where he reported the NSW bushfire crisis.
- In 2014, Tom spent months in Pretoria, South Africa to report the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic hero.
- At the beginning of 2015, Tom was Channel Nine’s Europe Correspondent. This was a turbulent time for Europe, as numerous terrorist attacks took place in the continent such as the attacks in Paris, Nice, Brussels, London, and Munich. He also covered major events in Europe such as the earthquakes in Italy, Brexit, and the discovery of parts of the missing aeroplane MH370.
- Tom has covered American stories as well, such as the story of singer Michael Jackson’s death in June 2009, and Donald Trump’s campaign which led to his Presidential victory in 2016.
- In 2017, he returned to Sydney to work as a co-host of Weekend TODAY while he was also working as a foreign correspondent.
- He has reported from inside North Korea during the nuclear stand-off between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. He also contributed to the coverage of the Australian drug mule “cocaine” Cassie Sainsbury.
- It was announced in January 2019 that he would become a newsreader for the TODAY show.
Personal Life, Family and Trivia :
- Tom is a huge fan of sports, and some of his favourite assignments were the reporting of the Olympics, FIFA World Cups, and local sporting events.
- A fan of running, has completed the Melbourne and New York marathons.
- In 2019, he got married to Claudia Jukic in a beautiful wedding in Hvar, Croatia. He met Claudia in 2018 through mutual friends. Earlier, he had proposed to her on a boat in Croatia.
- Tom’s wife, Claudia, is a style editor at Jones Magazine by David Jones.