Peter Stefanovic

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Peter Stefanovic
Born
Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • reporter
  • television presenter
Years active2002–present
Employer Sky News Australia (division of News Corp)
Television First Edition
Spouse
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(m. 2017)​
Children2
Relatives Karl Stefanovic (brother)

Peter Stefanovic is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter. He is a co-host of First Edition on Sky News Australia. He was previously a co-host of Weekend Today, senior reporter on Nine News and a contributing reporter for current affairs program 60 Minutes. [1]

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Career

Stefanovic began his television career with WIN Television in 2002, reporting for WIN News in both Rockhampton and Canberra. [2]

Stefanovic's career with the Nine Network started in 2004 as a reporter for Nine News and A Current Affair. He later became a foreign correspondent based in Nine's Los Angeles and London bureaus. After serving as a foreign correspondent for many years, Stefanovic returned to Australia in mid-2015 to work as a senior reporter and presenter across the Nine News platform. [3] Stefanovic wrote a book about his time as a foreign correspondent, Hack in a Flak Jacket: Dispatches from an Aussie Foreign Correspondent, which was published by Hachette Australia in 2016. [4]

In 2016, Stefanovic joined Weekend Today as a co-host alongside Deborah Knight. He presented the program until 2017, when he moved to 60 Minutes , filling in for Allison Langdon who was on maternity leave. Tom Steinfort replaced him as co-host of Weekend Today.

In January 2018, Stefanovic returned to Weekend Today as co-host, alongside Allison Langdon. [1] In December 2018, he left the Nine Network. [5]

In May 2019, Stefanovic joined Sky News Australia to co-host First Edition with Laura Jayes. [6] During an interview on First Edition in May 2024 with an Indigenous Australian teenager who had won a $1 million prize, Stefanovic questioned the teenager about a theft he had been involved in two years earlier. The interview was widely condemned, and both Stefanovic and Sky News Australia later apologised. [7]

Personal life

Stefanovic is married to journalist and television presenter Sylvia Jeffreys and they have two children.[ citation needed ]

Stefanovic was born in Darlinghurst, New South Wales to a Serbian-German father and an Australian mother. Stefanovic is the third of four children to mother Jenny. His siblings include co-host of Today , Karl Stefanovic, an older sister, and a younger brother Tom, who is a former cameraman for Nine News . [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Stefanovic and Allison Langdon new 'Weekend Today' hosts" . Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Doherty, Megan (15 August 2016) Channel Nine reporter Peter Stefanovic to speak in Canberra about his new book Hack in a Flak Jacket, The Canberra Times . Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Peter Stefanovic, Reporter Sydney News Team - 9News". www.9news.com.au. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hack in a Flak Jacket: Wars, riots and revolutions - dispatches from a foreign correspondent". Hachette Australia. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "JUST CONFIRMED: Peter Stefanovic leaves Channel 9" . Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Blackiston, Hannah (27 May 2019). "Peter Stefanovic joins Sky News as the channel announces its programming for the remainder of 2019". Mumbrella. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Meade, Amanda (3 May 2024). "Feelgood story turns bad as Sky humiliates Indigenous teenager who caught $1m barramundi". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  8. ↑ Croffey, Amy (2 April 2017). "Karl Stefanovic's kids 'upset' not to be invited to Peter and Sylvia Jeffreys' wedding". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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