Peter Stefanovic

Peter Stefanovic (born 19 November 1981) is an Australian journalist who works for the Nine Network. Stefanovic is currently co-host of Weekend Today alongside Allison Langdon and senior reporter on Nine News.^[2]

He is also a contributing reporter for current affairs program 60 Minutes.

Career

Stefanovic began his television career with WIN Television in 2002, reporting for WIN News in both Rockhampton and Canberra.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

In early 2016, it was announced that Stefanovic would co-host Weekend Today alongside Deborah Knight. He presented the program until 2017, when he moved across 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.^[2]

Personal life

Stefanovic is married to Sylvia Jefferys, who is a news presenter on Today.

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.^[6]

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