Nine News reporter Tom Steinfort will soon be capping off a big 12 months by taking up a new role with A Current Affair.
Earlier this year the Melbourne reported was one of many journos covering the Black Saturday bushfires. But at just 24 years old he won the Young Journalist of the Year award from the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Awards. Rewarded with a US trip he found himself on the frontline of the biggest news story in the world when news of Michael Jackson’s death broke.
Extending his stay, Steinfort was quickly filing stories from UCLA Hospital and the Staples Memorial Centre, with reports beamed around the country on Nine’s various shows.
Soon he turns his attention to current affairs.
“I’m really looking forward to trying something new at ACA,” he told TV Tonight. “The stories there give a bit more freedom for creativity and involvement, which will be good.
“I’ve been in News at Nine for three years now, and will miss covering breaking news. But these days, ACA is at all the big stories anyway, and this will just give me a chance to cover them in a bit of a different, and more in-depth, manner.”
To take up the new role Steinfort will also have to relocate to Sydney.
“I’m a Melbourne boy and will miss home a bit, but then again I’ve been that busy travelling around for work this year anyway that it doesn’t really matter where I’m based!”
He starts his new position on January 18th.
I’m happy his quotes make it relevant, along with the dates concerned. Clearly there was interest in him based on the feedback. Never suggested it was a scoop…
Hey David, MediaSpy had this months ago…
I’m with the masses who think “Wow – hot guy gives up journalism!”
“I’m really looking forward to trying something new at ACA.”
And the fact that he won an award for journalism is proof that this will be something entirely new for him.
damn cute. I wonder if he is being groomed for something else and this is something he has to do
chk chk…boom
sorry but this guy aint hot! nice though…
who cares if its a demotion…we get to see more of Tom’s hotness on screen… hope i’d bump into him when i’m next in Sydney (oxford street would be a great place to start (wishful thinking on my part) !!
The winner of the Young Journalist of the Year award ends up at ACA. Hate to think where the bad ones go.
Really you think going from Regional to National is a demotion?
Errrr…Tom who?
Appearing on ACA? Seems like a blot on the CV.
So he’s quitting journalism after such a great start?
What a shame…
wow, talk about a massive demotion…
So he’s basically quiting journalism then. Bad career move.
i would have thought that this would be considered a demotion.
Best reporter on TV at the moment….. and cute.
Soon he turns his attention to current affairs. “I’m really looking forward to trying something new at ACA”
Current affairs and ACA – I dont see the connection?
When did David Eccleston join TT? I dont watch the show normally but flicked the channel last night and saw him there…. Did ACA get rid of him?
A backward step I would say Tom, in News you would have the opportunity to cover big stories and newsreading whereas at ACA you’ll be stuck reporting on neighbourhood disputes, dodgey builders and the next wonder bra.
Wow, what a demotion! Going from telling news, to telling trash. Big mistake.
what a handsome man Tom Steinfort is