John Moody is an American journalist. He served as the executive editor and the executive vice president of

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. He was previously the chief executive officer of NewsCore, the former internal wire service of Rupert Murdoch's

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(the then-parent company of

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and Fox News), as well as senior vice president, news editorial, for the

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prior to that.

Early life, education and career

Moody was born in

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. Moody is a 1975 graduate of

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, where he worked for WVBR-FM. He then began working for

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, serving successively as the

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and

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bureau chief. Afterwards, Moody went to work for ''

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,'' serving as the Vatican correspondent and bureau chiefs for Rome, Latin America and finally New York. As the N.Y. bureau chief, Moody was against the 1996 Time/Warner buyout of

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. He instructed his staff "not to co-operate" with CNN, which he saw as a competitor to ''Time.'' In 1992, Moody received the

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Bartholomew Mitre Award for his interview with

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kingpin

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. An anti-Fox News documentary, ''

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,'' accused Moody of circulating internal memos encouraging political bias in Fox's reporting. After three different Fox News shows in January 2007 repeated an ''

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'' magazine story about

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attending a radical madrassa school as a child, Moody said Fox "commentators had erred by citing the Clinton-Obama report. The hosts violated one of our general rules, which is know what you are talking about. They reported information from a publication whose accuracy we didn't know." On August 15, 2008, Moody wrote an editorial lambasting

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for saying, "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area." As a native of west Pennsylvania, Moody said Murtha can "go to hell" and called him a "jagoff." On February 8, 2018, Moody wrote an editorial arguing that the U.S. Olympic Committee wants to change the Olympic Games' motto to "Darker, Gayer, Different." "No sport that we are aware of awards points — or medals — for skin color or sexual orientation," Moody said. Fox News pulled the column, stating that it did "not reflect the views or values of FOX News." In March 2018, he retired from Fox News. In 2018, former

executive Ken LaCorte recruited Moody and former

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editorial director

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to launch LaCorte News, a digital news startup "restoring faith in media." An investigation by ''

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'' in November 2019 found that LaCorte was using "Russian tactics" to disseminate divisive content via websites he covertly controlled.

Works

*John Moody and Ropger Boyes, ''The Priest Who Had to Die'', Gollancz (June 1, 1986), *John Moody, ''Moscow Magician: A Thriller'', St. Martin's Press (January 14, 1991), *John Moody, ''Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates'', Shadow Mountain (March 3, 2010), *John Moody, ''Of Course They Knew, Of Course They ...'', Brick Tower Press / J.T. Colby & Company (September 11, 2021),

References

External links

Archive at Fox News
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