Person
Steve Cannane
Steve Cannane is a Walkley award winning journalist and broadcaster with ABC TV and Radio. Steve was the founder and presenter of Hack – Triple J’s current affairs show, which he hosted for two and a half years.
Hack is the only national show of its kind, delivering the most relevant stories of the day from the unique – and often surprising – viewpoint of young Australians. In 2006 Steve won the Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing for a series of three interviews “Petrol Sniffing, Pilltesting and the Cost of War”. He was commended in the same category of the Walkleys in 2005. He has visited the U.S. as the Australian representative on the US Department of State’s Edward R Murrow Program, where emerging leaders in the field of journalism from around the world are invited to examine journalistic practices in the United States.
Steve made the move to TV reporter with Triple J TV in 2006. He has hosted his own show on ABC 2 ‘The Hack Half Hour’, a show where he facilitates the conflicting views from an audience of around 30 young people. Steve is a regular fill-in host on Radio National’s Breakfast program, the nation’s most listened to talk radio show. In 2009 Steve hosts an exciting news series on ABC 1 called ‘Whatever: The Science of Teenager’s’ and is releasing a book titled First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards That Made Them for which he has interviewed many Australian cricketing heroes. Steve has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Bulletin.