Career
Fordham is currently drive presenter on 2GB. In 1998, Fordham moved to television and joined Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter. After less than a year at Sky News Australia, Ben joined the Nine Network, working on tabloid current affair programs such as 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, Nine News and Today. Fordham filled in for Stuart Bocking on 2UE Nights in the 2008/09 summer period, he also filled in for Ray Hadley on 2GB in the 2009/10 summer period.
In 2010, Ben joined Nine News and Today as a reporter, he also covered the 2010 Australian Federal Election.
In January 2011, Fordham joined Today as sport presenter replacing Cameron Williams. Ben also joined 2GB in January 2011 replacing Jason Morrison to present "Sydney Live".
In March 2014, Ben announced that he would be leaving Today at the end of the year to concentrate on his radio show. Weekend Today sport presenter Tim Gilbert has been announced as his replacement.
On 26 February 2009 Fordham was charged with concealing a serious crime and breaching the Listening Devices Acting.
The Nine Network and A Current Affair"s producer Andrew Byrne were also charged. On 20 July 2010 NSW Supreme judge Elizabeth Fullerton called Fordham"s attitude "disrespectful" when he failed to appear in court to hear her judgment on the charges of breaching the Listening Devices Acting. Justice Fullerton found him guilty of one of four charges against him, that he knowingly recorded a conversation on 28 May 2008.
Byrne was convicted of four charges of breaching the acting
The conversation was aired on American Counseling Association in May 2008, claiming to show former Waverley mayor James Markham ordering a fatal hit on a male escort. Although found guilty, Fordham and Byrne each escaped conviction, with Justice Fullerton saying it was "an appalling lack of judgment by two senior journalists who are otherwise held in esteem by their colleagues".