Biografia
TV host, author, columnist, speaker and commentator Tom Basile has been in the middle of the action on the biggest stories and hottest issues of the two last decades. His work in the worlds of politics, government, media and business have made him a powerful voice in our national conversation.
Tom is the host of 'America Right Now' on NewsmaxTV, one of America's top news channels on cable and digital platforms. As a television news anchor, he has provided credible, balanced coverage of top stories including presidential campaigns and inaugurations, the January 6th riots, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI and a wide range of other breaking news.
He is an opinion columnist for the Washington Times and the former host of 'Sunday in America' on SiriusXM Radio. In addition to the Washington Times, his columns have been frequently published by FoxNews, Newsmax and a range of other publications. He was an opinion columnist for Forbes from 2012-2018. Basile's insights into the national political scene, public policy and foreign affairs have earned him a reputation for credibility, candor and common sense.
In 2011, he was one of only two American conservatives featured as part of Time Magazine's Person of the Year spread about citizen engagement around the world.
Basile His critically-acclaimed book Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq (Potomac, 2017), gives readers his personal account of the Iraq mission during the critical first year after the fall of Saddam Hussein and the daily battle to communicate about the war to an American public increasingly opposed to the mission. The book earned a foreword by National Security Advisor and former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton.
He also published Let it Sink In: The Decade of Obama and Trump (Empire Media Group, 2020) takes readers on a journey through the 2010s and provides new commentary and analysis to help defend American Freedom in the 2020s.
For more than a decade, Basile was an adjunct professor at Fordham University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where he taught earned media strategy.
For more than 20 years he has provided strategic and crisis communications counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, non-profits, advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. Basile's work has ensured his clients address brand crises effectively and get noticed by customers, opinion leaders, policymakers and the press. His record of results has ensured the brand growth and development of organizations big and small. Basile's strategies and hands-on approach have garnered international attention in the world's most influential media outlets. He is a former Managing Director of the renowned NYC-based Middleberg Communications where he led a CSR communications practice.
From 2009-2011 he served as Executive Director of the New York State Republican Party, during which time the GOP erased several cycles of losses at the local and county levels of government, recaptured its majority in the NYS State Senate and won more Congressional seats for the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives than any other state in the nation.
