Simon Bouda returns to A Current Affair

Nine News senior reporter Simon Bouda is returning to A Current Affair next month, as Crime Editor, a decade after he departed.

He will be responsible for national coverage of major crime and domestic and international terrorism.

Bouda joined Nine News in 1990 having after ten years on the crime round with Sydney newspapers. He had 2 years with ACA from 2005.

“Simon is without doubt one of the country’s most respected and trusted journalists and has been a crime reporter since 1980,” said Grant Williams, Deputy Director of News & Current Affairs.

“He has covered some of the nation’s biggest crime stories including the murders of Anita Cobby and Ebony Simpson along with disasters including the Boxing Day Tsunami, Christchurch Earthquake and the Thredbo Landslide.

“He was also the Network’s Europe Foreign Correspondent between 2000 and 2003 and was a senior reporter for A Current Affair between 2005 and 2007.”

He begins on 2nd October.