Robert Penfold Biography
Robert Penfold AM is an Australian television reporter and journalist who worked as the Foreign Correspondent for Nine News. He began his career in broadcast journalism, working at a local radio and television station in Tamworth, New South Wales.
How old is Robert Penfold? – Age
He is 72 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1951 in Australia.
Robert Penfold Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $9 million.
Robert Penfold Nine Network
As a reporter for Nine Network, he covered the Granville rail disaster and toured Australia to cover the first visit of Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and new baby Prince William. Penfold has worked for Nine News, A Current Affair, Today (where he appeared on the first show in 1982), and Sunday in his Nine Network career.
He covered the Space Shuttle Challenger accident and was based in Nine’s North American Bureau from 1985 to 1987, reporting on Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
In 1987, Penfold moved to the UK to work for the Nine Network. He covered the IRA’s war against the British, Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s divorce, and the search for mafia boss Robert Trimboli, who was Australia’s most wanted man at the time, while he was in Europe.
In 1997, he became the Nine Network’s North American Bureau Chief and returned to Los Angeles, California. Penfold has covered a wide range of topics as the U.S. correspondent for Channel Nine, including the presidency of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, the terrorist attacks of September 11, the earthquake in Haiti, and the 33 miners trapped in Chile. As he reported on the Iraq War and the Australian military’s role in Iraq, he also spent time with the Australian Army.
In June 2019, Penfold made his retirement from his position as the US Correspondent and Bureau Chief for Nine Network. On June 30, 2019, his final broadcast tribute was broadcast on the 6pm evening bulletin. Penfold is still employed by The Nine Network as a contributor to its news and current affairs programs on occasion.
Robert Penfold Career
Penfold began his career as a cadet journalist for the Macarthur Advertiser and Campbelltown-Ingleburn News, two local newspapers in Campbelltown, New South Wales. He began his career in broadcast journalism, working at a local radio and television station in Tamworth, New South Wales. Penfold worked for all three commercial television networks in Sydney and Melbourne during his reporting career. He was one of the first reporters into Darwin after Cyclone Tracy destroyed the city on Christmas Day 1974 while working for Ten News in Melbourne.
Penfold also wrote about Nelson Mandela’s triumphant march to freedom and America’s failed attempt to bring peace to Somalia. Live reports from Mandela’s house in Soweto and the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, are memorable events.
Penfold covered the Balkan War in the early 1990s from the former Yugoslavia. He was one of the first journalists into Kuwait City during the First Gulf War in 1991. He reported earlier from Baghdad, where the Australian government was attempting to negotiate the release of Australians stranded there. Penfold led the A Current Affair office in Melbourne for two years while he was in Australia.
