Having worked as a reporter, producer and presenter for triple j, Steve Cannane also presented Hack, triple j’s current affairs show, for two and a half years until July 2006.

In 2006 he won the Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing for a series of three interviews - Petrol Sniffing, Pilltesting and The Cost of War while he was also commended in the same category of the Walkleys in 2005.

In 2006 Steve won the Excellence in Alcohol and Drug Media Reporting Award at the National Drug and Alcohol Awards and visited the US as the Australian representative on the US Department of State's Edward R Murrow program for journalists.

He currently presents The Drum on ABC News 24 and is a reporter at Lateline.

Steve was the founding presenter of triple j’s current affairs program Hack and presented The Hack Half Hour on ABC2. He also fronted the ABC 1 documentary series Whatever: The Science of Teenagers and has published a book First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards That Made Them.

In 2016, Cannane published his masterful examination of Scientology’s history in Australia, titled Fair Game.

You can follow him on Twitter at @SteveCannane