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TERRY MORAN
Co-anchor, "Nightline"
Terry Moran was named co-anchor of ABC News' "Nightline" in October 2005 and is based in Washington, DC. He has recently covered a number of ground-breaking stories such as the ongoing war on terror, for which he traveled to Afghanistan on the fifth Anniversary of 9/11. After the landmark ruling on military tribunals, he reported the story live in a series from Guant?amo Bay, Cuba, and he was on the ground in downtown Los Angeles to cover the heated immigration debate and subsequent rallies.
Prior to co-anchoring "Nightline," Mr. Moran was named anchor of "World News Tonight Sunday" in August 2004, while continuing to serve as ABC News' Chief White House correspondent, a role he had held since September 1999. As White House Correspondent, he reported on all aspects of the Bush administration for "World News Tonight," "Nightline" and other ABC News broadcasts. He traveled widely covering President Bush's domestic and foreign trips and the President's meetings with world leaders.
Mr. Moran was a key member of the ABC News team covering the events of September 11, 2001, and he continued to report on all aspects of the war on terror while covering the Bush administration. He reported from the White House throughout the war with Iraq during the spring of 2003.
In November of 2003, Mr. Moran traveled to Baghdad to report on the U.S.-led occupation and the violent insurgency against it. His tour in Iraq gave him a unique perspective on the war, having covered first-hand both the president who launched it and the American men and women who fought it and have struggled to secure the country afterwards.
Mr. Moran also covered Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign. He traveled extensively, reporting on the primary battles between Gore and Senator Bill Bradley in Iowa, New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday. During the hard-fought general-election campaign, he logged thousands of miles with Vice President Gore and spent Election Day in Nashville, where he reported on the historic events that night. For the next 35 days, he covered the legal battle for the White House, and on the chaotic night the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Bush v. Gore, it was from listening to Mr. Moran's clear explanation of the Court's opinion that Vice President Gore himself learned he had lost the presidency.
In 1999 Mr. Moran traveled to the Balkans to cover the war in Kosovo and its troubled aftermath. From the refugee camps in Macedonia to the Roma ("gypsy") neighborhoods of Pristina, he investigated war crimes stories and reported on the human impact of the 'ethnic-cleansing' campaigns launched by both Serbs and Kosovars.
Prior to covering politics and policy, Mr. Moran spent ten years covering law. From 1998-1999 he was the primary ABC News correspondent assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court. He filed stories on several major cases of the term, including Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, a case that raised the issue of schools' liability for student-on-student sexual harassment. He joined ABC News in 1997.
Other legal stories he has covered for ABC News include the murder trial of British au pair Louise Woodward in Cambridge, Mass.; the fourth trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian; the trial of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski; the Microsoft anti-trust case; and the Portland, Oregon, trial of anti-abortion activists sued for contributing to a website that the jury found illegally threatened abortion providers. For "Nightline" -- among other stories -- Mr. Moran covered the unique death-penalty case of Horace Kelly, a man who had gone insane on California's death row and was then
brought before a jury, which was asked if he should still be executed; the tragic rash of heroin-overdose deaths of teenagers in Plano, Texas; and the remarkable gathering of dozens of former death-row inmates freed when evidence of their innocence came to light. For this piece, Mr. Moran was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award by the Death Penalty Information Center. He was also in Miami in the spring of 1999 when Elian Gonzalez was seized by federal agents and returned to his father, and he covered the protests and the civil disturbances in the city that followed the government's action.
Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. Moran was a correspondent and anchor for Court TV. He received critical acclaim for his nightly coverage of the day's events in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, and for his extensive reports during the trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez, when the Los Angeles brothers first faced charges for the shotgun murders of their parents.
For Court TV, Mr. Moran also traveled to Bosnia and The Hague, in the Netherlands, to cover the first international war crimes trial since World War II, that of a Bosnian Serb named Dusko Tadic. In addition, he was Court TV's correspondent covering the Supreme Court confirmation debates over Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Before joining Court TV, he was a reporter and assistant managing editor for Legal Times.
Mr. Moran has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic Magazine -- where he began his career in journalism.