Journalist and Co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline”
Honors Convocation
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:10 a.m.
Based in Washington, D.C., Terry Moran assumed co-anchor duties of ABC News’ “Nightline” November 2005. Prior to that, he served as anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight Sunday” for 16 months while doing double duty as the network’s chief White House correspondent, a role he assumed in September 1999.
As a broadcast journalist, Moran has covered some of the nation’s biggest — and most memorable — stories in the past 15 years. He has reported on the war in Iraq from Baghdad, the 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decided presidential election case of Bush v. Gore, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. As ABC News’ legal correspondent, he reported on the contentious confirmation debate over Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, and covered the murder trials of Dr. Jack Kervorkian and the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, among others. He was presented the 1999 Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award by the Death Penalty Information Center for his reporting on dozens of former death-row inmates freed when evidence of their innocence came to light.
He began his broadcast career as a correspondent and anchor for Court TV, where he received critical acclaim for his nightly coverage of the daily developments in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, and for his extensive reports during the trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez, the Los Angeles brothers accused of the shotgun murders of their parents.
Moran, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Lawrence in 1982, launched his journalism career writing for The New Republic magazine.