[2] Fordham began his career on Sydney radio station 2UE, for which he won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 1997 Thredbo landslide.
[6] In 2018, Fordham was made an inaugural board member of the Ash Williams Show podcast, alongside other media personalities such as Ed Kavalee, Sonia Kruger, and Tony Martin.
Following the defeat of the Liberal-National Coalition government at the 2022 federal election, leading to the resignation of then-outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison as leader of the Liberal Party and the need for a new deputy leader after then-outgoing Treasurer Josh Frydenberg lost his seat of Kooyong to teal independent Monique Ryan, Fordham endorsed Jane Hume, a Senator for Victoria, for the deputy leadership of the Liberal Party (as the Leader of the Opposition must be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives).
[17] The conversation was aired on A Current Affair in May 2008, claiming to show former Waverley mayor James Markham ordering a fatal hit on a male escort.
[18] 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".