Michael E Moran (journalist)

A writer, broadcaster, and digital media pioneer on foreign and national security affairs, Moran is a former correspondent for the BBC, MSNBC, and Radio Free Europe. He now provides the editorial direction and analysis for CFR.org, the website for the Council on Foreign Relations.

Moran may be best known for a foreign policy column he wrote during his years at MSNBC.com, Brave New World. One column in particular, written in December, 1999, was entitled " [Times's Up for the Taliban] http://www.cfr.org/publication/10302/" and, citing the threat Osama bin Laden presented to major cities in the United States, advocated a U.S.-led coalition of like-minded states invade and capture the al-Qaida leader.

In 2008, Moran earned a News & Documentary Emmy award [http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_29th_winners.html] for his role as executive producer of Crisis Guide: Darfur, [http://www.cfr.org/publication/13129/] an interactive multimedia feature on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

Moran's career included stints at a variety of major media outlets: Senior correspondent, MSNBC.com (2003-05); senior producer, International News and Special Reports, MSNBC.com (1996-2003); U.S. affairs analyst, BBC World Service (1993-96); senior editor, Radio Free Europe (1990-93), former reporter for Associated Press, St. Petersburg Times, Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1985-88).

Moran also is an adjunct professor at Bard College’s Center for Globalization and International Affairs, and a past Hearst New Media Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Moran also served for a decade on the board of the Overseas Press Club., and judges its annual awards. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Economist, the Spectator (UK), the Guardian, the New Leader, on National Public Radio and in many other outlets. He has lectured at dozens of universities and think tanks around the world.