Robert Penfold (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Penfold is a Foreign Correspondent for Australia's Nine News. Penfold started his career as a cadet journalist on the Macarthur Advertiser, a local newspaper in his hometown of Campbelltown, NSW. He moved into broadcast journalism, working at the local radio and TV station in Tamworth, NSW. During the past 35 years Robert has worked for all three commercial Australian networks in Sydney and Melbourne. While working for Ten News in Melbourne, he was one of the first reporters into Darwin after Cyclone Tracy destroyed the city on Christmas Day in 1974. He covered the Granville rail disaster as a Nine Network reporter and toured Australia covering the first visit of the royal newlyweds, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. During his career at Nine Network, Robert has worked for Nine News, A Current Affair, Today (appearing on the first show in 1982) and Sunday.