Tom Sinkovitz
Emmy® award-winning Tom Sinkovitz Joins NBC Bay Area as political reporter and anchor for NBC Bay Area News
Updated 12:55 PM PST, Wed, Jul 29, 2009
Emmy® award-winning Tom Sinkovitz joins NBC Bay Area as political reporter and anchor for NBC Bay Area News. Sinkovitz’s career began with the Armed Forces Vietnam Network when he was in Saigon in 1969. Before coming to the Bay Area 18 years ago, he anchored and reported in Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Atlanta.
Sinkovitz has covered many significant stories, among them: Three Mile Island, Hurricanes Agnes and Hugo, the Oakland Hills Firestorm, the Los Angeles Riots, Superbowl XVI and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
He won an Emmy award for his coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. He also reported live from the Nashville campaign headquarters of then Vice President Al Gore on the infamous election night of November 2000.
Sinkovitz is married and the father of twins. He has a twin brother who is also a TV journalist in Pennsylvania.
First Published: Oct 8, 2008 9:07 AM PST
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