Malone, a graduate of Journalism and Criminology at Dublin Institute of Technology, moved from Channel Controller at RTÉ to become the new Director of Programming at TV3 in 2016.
Whilst at RTÉ, he has won national and international awards for documentary making and Young Peoples Programmes and has also worked extensively in Current Affairs as a producer with Prime Time, culminating in the Prime Time Investigates documentary Carry On Regardless which was one of the most-watched programmes in the history of the series.