Tom Van de Weghe is an award-winning journalist and documentary maker for VRT, the Flemish Broadcasting Corporation. (Belgium) After reporting from Russia and Asia, he has covered the United States and Latin-America as senior correspondent.
From 2007 through September 2012, Tom was the first Belgian-TV correspondent in Asia. He established VRT's Beijing Bureau, producing crossmedia stories for television, radio and online. He also reported from 'forbidden' territories such as North Korea, Tibet, Xinjiang and Myanmar.
With over 17 years of experience as a journalist, he's skilled in the entire process of multimedia journalism for the 21st century. Research and production, filming, recording, editing and distribution. Tom's trademark: mini-documentaries and compelling stories told with high-quality footage.
For his latest book "Tom in Alle Staten" he travelled 20,000 kms around the US to discover a polarised country in the run-up to the US presidential elections. "A prophetic book that predicted how Trump could in fact win," according to reviews.
Tom wrote about his experiences in China in his bestselling book "Beestig China". Together with his wife, he created the book 'Lekkel!", a culinary travel adventure through Asia.
Tom Van de Weghe led VRT's Washington Bureau as bureau chief from 2012 until the end of 2016. Upon his return to the VRT News headquarters in Brussel he was working as a geopolitical risk analyst, building on his expertise of China, the United States, Russia and North Korea.
In 2018 Tom received a J.S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. He is now living with his family in Menlo Park (Silicon Valley, California) and is researching the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain on journalism. He is focusing on video forensics and authentication.
