Charles Moore (journalist)

For other people named Charles Moore, see Charles Moore (disambiguation).

Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956, Hastings) is a British journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Early life

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded a BA in History and was a friend of Oliver Letwin.

Career

A former editor of The Spectator (1984-90), the Sunday Telegraph (1992-5) and The Daily Telegraph (1995-2003); he resigned from the last post to spend more time writing Margaret Thatcher's authorised biography, which will be published after her death.

Due to falling circulation, there had been speculation ^[1]about Mr Moore's future prior to his resignation, and the paper had been defeated in an important libel action^[2] by George Galloway.

He currently writes for two of the publications he once edited, The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He is Chairman of Policy Exchange. Moore was fined £262 for not possessing a TV licence in May 2010,^[3] eighteen months after announcing that he would donate the amount payable as a television licence to Help the Aged because the BBC had failed to sack Jonathan Ross for his 'Sachsgate' prank with Russell Brand.^[4]

Publications

Moore's first publication was a pamphlet for the Salisbury Group "The Old People of Lambeth", which was published in 1982.^[5] Since then, he has co-edited A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E. Utley (1989).

Bibliography

Incomplete - to be updated

Articles

• "The Spectator's Notes". The Spectator 308 (9397): 11. 4 October 2008. http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/2189176/the-spectators-notes.thtml. Retrieved 13 December 2008. 
• "The Spectator's Notes". The Spectator 311 (9446): 11. 12 September 2009. http://www.spectator.co.uk/politics/all/5317196/the-spectators-notes.thtml. Retrieved 20 June 2011. 
• "The Spectator's Notes". The Spectator 312 (9464): 13. 16 January 2010. http://www.spectator.co.uk/politics/all/5704523/the-spectators-notes.thtml. Retrieved 2 November 2010. 

Personal life

He married Caroline Baxter in 1981 in Tunbridge Wells. They have a twin son and daughter (born April 1990).

References

1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2969123.stm
2. ^ http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Charles_Moore#George_Galloway_libel_action
3. ^ James Robinson "Charles Moore fined for Jonathan Ross-inspired TV licence boycott", The Guardian, 11 May 2010
4. ^ "The BBC was too scared to sack Jonathan Ross, so the obscenity goes on", Daily Telegraph, 22 November 2008
5. ^ Findarticles.com

External links

• Column archive at The Daily Telegraph
  • I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right, 22 July 2011
• Column archive at The Spectator
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Charles Moore at the Internet Movie Database
• Article archive at Journalisted
• Zoë Heller, A Better Class of Person: Charles Moore, The Independent, 31 January 1993

Media offices
Preceded by Alexander Chancellor	Editor of The Spectator 1984 - 1990	Succeeded by Dominic Lawson
Preceded by Gordon Brook-Shepherd	Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph 1990–1992	Succeeded by Trevor Grove and Veronica Wadley
Preceded by Trevor Grove	Editor of The Sunday Telegraph 1992 - 1995	Succeeded by Dominic Lawson
Preceded by Sir Max Hastings	Editor of The Daily Telegraph 1995 - 2003	Succeeded by Martin Newland

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