Tom Aspell (1950 – February 11, 2013) was a New Zealand-born U.S. television news producer, foreign correspondent, and cameraman.^[1][2][3] He was employed by NBC News for 28 years and previously worked for ABC News, CBS News, and Visnews.^[1][2][3]

Aspell began his career as a scriptwriter and cameraman in 1970 with Visnews.^[2][3] He was among the few foreign journalists who remained in Southeast Asia when Saigon fell to communist forces on April 30, 1975.^[1][3] From 1975 to 1978, he was a freelance cameraman in the Middle East.^[1] In 1978, he joined CBS News as a cameraman covering Beirut, where he then worked as a producer for ABC News from 1981 to 1983.^[1][3]

In 1985, he was hired by NBC News as a producer based in Cyprus.^[2][3] He then became a foreign correspondent covering major events around the world.^[2] His first on-air report for NBC was from Baghdad in August 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.^[1] From 1992 on, he spent considerable time covering the war-torn region of Bosnia.^[1]

Aspell lived on Cyprus with his wife Nujud Dabbagh and their two sons.^[1][2] He loved sailing.^[2]

Aspell died on February 11, 2013, following a two-year battle with lung cancer.^[2][3] He was 62.^[2][3] Brian Williams, the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, said Aspell was a journalist with "an intense brand of cool under fire".^[2][3] NBC News president Steve Capus described Aspell as "understated, selfless, perpetually cool, shrewd, wry, curmudgeonly, and a damn good reporter".^[3]

• National Press Photographers Association Award for coverage of the Iranian Revolution (1979)^[1]
• Emmy Award for coverage of the Romanian Revolution (1989)^[1]
• National Headliner Award for coverage of Yugoslavia (1993)^[1]