Tom Costello

About

* Certificate: Cybersecurity Risk Management - Harvard University/HarvardX. * Master's Degree: International Commerce - Boston University/Brussels. * Bachelor's Degree: Broadcast Journalism - University of Colorado/Boulder. *NBC NEWS Senior Correspondent based in Washington, DC. *Reporting daily for the TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and CNBC. *Portfolio of Beats Includes: Aviation/Transportation, NASA/Space, Cybersecurity, and Economics. Recent High Profile Assignments: -The mid-air plane and chopper crash at Reagan National Airport in 2025. -The Delta Airlines crash in Toronto, 2025. -Boeing's Quality Control breakdown. -The Alaska Airlines Max-9 door plug blowout and investigation. -Two fatal Boeing Max-8 crashes and investigations. -The search for the missing TITAN mini-sub in the North Atlantic. -Hunting Russian submarines with NATO in Norwegian waters. -Battlefield Space: The New Space Race with Russia and China. -COVID-19 and the search for a vaccine and therapeutics. -Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash. -Cyber Hacking of America. -The 2018/2019 government shutdown. -Mass shooting massacres in VA Beach and at VA Tech. -The sniper attack on a Republican baseball practice in Virginia. -The United the Right violence in Charlottesville. -The search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 & the shoot down of MH17. -The crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco. -The Miracle on the Hudson landing in NYC. -G8 Summits, National Elections, Hurricanes & Tornadoes - political & otherwise. From 1996 to 2004, Costello worked at CNBC Business News as CNBC’s Nasdaq Editor. On duty in Manhattan on 9/11. From 1996-1999, reported from London, covering International Business, the equity/bond/currency markets, and the launch of the Euro from Frankfurt. Before joining CNBC, Costello contributed to Financial Times TV and CNN in Brussels, Belgium, while earning a master's degree in International Commerce. He previously worked at KUSA-TV in Denver. Awards: Multiple National Emmy Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award, Edward R. Murrow honors, Sigma Delta Chi, National Headliner, Best of Gannett, AP Best Reporting honors, Natl Assn of Black Journalists Excellence Award, the National Air Traffic Controllers' Sentinel of Safety Award (the only journalist to ever receive the award which normally goes to NTSB and FAA chiefs). *Inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation/Class of 2025. *Honorary doctorate from Capitol Technology University/Washington, DC.