• Certificate: Cybersecurity Risk Management - Harvard University/HarvardX. • Master's Degree: Administration/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, Cybersecurity, Business/Economics, NASA/Space.High Profile Assignments:-The Alaska Airlines Max-9 door plug blowout and investigation. -Two fatal Boeing Max-8 crashes and investigations. -The search for a missing amateur submarine in the North Atlantic. -On assignment with NATO in the North Sea: Russian Sub Hunt. -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 Charlottesville United the Right violence. -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.-The 2008 Financial Bailout talks in Congress. -Europe's Conversion to the Euro currency (EMU). -G8 Summits, National Elections, Hurricanes & Tornadoes - political & otherwise.Former NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert brought Costello to the DC bureau in 2005 from NBC News headquarters in New York. From 1996 to 2004, Costello worked at CNBC Business News and was on-air as CNBC’s Nasdaq Editor in Manhattan on 9/11. From 1996-1999, he reported from London, covering International Business, the equity/bond/currency markets and the launch of the Euro.Before joining CNBC, Costello contributed to Financial Times TV and CNN in Brussels, Belgium while also 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).Honorary doctorate from Capitol Technology University/Washington, DC.