Peter Stefanovic | |
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| Born | Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
| Employer | Sky News Australia (division of News Corp) |
| Television | First Edition |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| 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]
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]
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]