| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Russell Skelton |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year he was born. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 1 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Where is Russell Skelton now? | Russell Skelton is the founding director of the digital research hub RMIT FactLab and the international award-winning RMIT ABC Fact Check. |
Wiki Information / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Russell Skelton is an editor, correspondent, director and writer from Australia.
- Smart and reserved, Russell is not afraid to share his opinions from time to time but is not one to speak up just for the case of it.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Russell has lived in Australia for most of his life.
- In 2003, Skelton tied the knot with television and radio presenter, Virginia Trioli in a destination wedding ceremony in Italy.
- The couple has quite a significant age difference but that has not stopped them from enjoying their lives and starting a family.
- In 2012, Trioli gave birth to their first and only child, a son they named Addison Marcello Skelton.
- The couple live in Australia and are based in Melbourne.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Skelton was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated from Monash University in Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in Law, Politics and Sociology.
- During his time at Monash, he was a member of the award-winning student run newspaper, “Lot’s Wife.”
- Around 1978-79, he attended Stanford University in the USA as a public policy professional journalism fellow.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- In 1981, Russell joined the team of Melbourne based newspaper The Age & worked as their OPED and Day Features editor.
- Eventually, he left the publication in 1984 and began working for Fairfax Media as Deputy Editor.
- Skelton moved to The Herald in 1986 & spent two years working as a business editor before moving to work as the News Limited’s Asian correspondent in Hong Kong & one of Australian’s national reporters.
- Year 1991 saw Skelton join the ABC as an executive producer for their 07.30 reports. He spent two years working for the team and left in 1993 to rejoin The Age once again, this time as a state Political Editor.
- He also returned to Fairfax for another four years and worked in Tokyo, Japan as their North Asian correspondent before returning for a third time to The Age as a Deputy Editor in the business management sector.
- In 2002, he was promoted by the publication to a National Affairs Correspondent and eventually become Contributing Editor in 2007.
- After working for The Age for over a decade, Russell joined the ABC as the editor for their Fact Check segment.
- He started working for RMIT University as part of the ABC Fact Check team in March 2017 and is still currently the team’s director.
- Throughout the years, he has written several published works including “Dreamtime, Boomtime” which he wrote for Fairfax Media and “Without a Home” which he wrote for ABC Fact Check.
Awards and Accolades :
- Skelton has received several accolades for his work including the Association Peace Award, which was awarded to him by the UN for his work on the disadvantages Aborigines in Australia face.
- He also has a Grant Hattam Quill Award, which he was awarded for his investigative journalism.
I would like to request that you initiate a way for readers to comment on the RMIT fact checks, and get a response if their comment requests any action. RMIT fact check has not fact-checked the articles published on the ABC internet platform. I would like to be contacted about this.
Norman Jones.
Dear Russell,
Greetings from Andrew Theophanous. Hope you are well. Congratulations on your great work over the years. You are a true humanitarian. Your work as detailed above has been a wonderful contribution. I have been living in Sydney for 10 years and have been teaching courses in Philosophy at the Sydney Community College.
In addition, during the last seven years, I have been writing a substantially researched and controversial book on the original philosophy of Jesus – based on ancient sources. I have drawn on the role of Greek philosophy in the foundations of Christianity. I have also discussed many issues on the philosophical teachings of Jesus drawing on both the Gnostic Christians and the early Christian Fathers. I believe that you would find this book interesting. I am now completing the final of this very large draft.
I would like to discuss the book with you and also catch up on what both of us have experienced in life over all these years.
Warmest regards to you and Virginia.
Andrew