TOM COSTELLO
Tom Costello is an Emmy award-winning NBC News Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., reporting across all NBC News platforms, including TODAY, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and streaming on NBC News NOW.
Costello joined NBC News in 2004 after spending eight years at CNBC Business News in London and New York. In 2005, he moved to the NBC News Washington Bureau.
As NBC's lead Aviation & Space Correspondent, he led reporting on some of the network's most high-profile stories, including the mid-air crash of an American Eagle regional jet and Army helicopter over Washington, the Boeing MAX-9 door plug investigations, two fatal MAX-8 crashes overseas, the shootdown of passenger jets over Tehran and Ukraine, the search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370, Captain Sully's Miracle on the Hudson River landing, Buffalo, and Toronto, ongoing ATC staffing shortages, and the record rebound in passenger traffic – to name a few.
Costello's coverage of space has included astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams' extended stay on the ISS, NASA's Artemis moon program, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic space tourism flights, robotic missions to the moon and to deflect asteroids away from Earth. He covered the final eleven space shuttle missions after the Columbia disaster.
Beyond aviation, he has covered NATO and economic summits, the loss of the Titanic submersible in the North Atlantic, the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, the VA Tech school massacre, and the January 6th assault on the capitol.
His documentaries have taken viewers behind the scenes at NASA, Space Force, the space station, and Space Command - as a new geo-strategic imperative plays out between the Earth and the moon.
Costello was the first journalist to ever receive the National Air Traffic Controller Association's Sentinel of Safety Award for his balanced reporting on aviation.
He has been recognized with national and regional Emmy awards, Edward R Murrow and National Headliner honors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, Gannett, the Radio Television Digital News Association, the University of Colorado, and Boston University.
From 1996 to 1999, he served as CNBC's London anchor, covering the European financial markets, the adoption of the Euro currency, and the death of Princess Diana.
From 1999-2002, he was CNBC's Nasdaq Correspondent in New York and was on duty during the 9/11 attacks. From 2002-2004, Costello anchored and produced documentaries from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Costello holds a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Colorado, a master’s degree in International Commerce from Boston University, and a certificate in Cybersecurity Risk Management from HarvardX.
Originally from Centennial, Colorado, he now lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Astrid Boon, of Brussels, Belgium. They have two grown daughters.