'Nightline' Anchor Terry Moran
Terry Moran was named co-anchor of ABC News "Nightline" in October 2005 and is based in Washington, D.C. At "Nightline," Moran has led the program's distinguished coverage of several of the major news stories in the last several years.
In the historic presidential campaign of 2008, Moran traveled across the country chronicling the rise of Sen. Barack Obama and conducting several groundbreaking interviews with the Illinois Democrat, including an exclusive and wide-ranging conversation about race in America after Obama's major speech on the subject in Philadelphia, in March 2008. Moran also interviewed and spent time covering the campaigns of Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. John McCain, Sen. John Edwards, former Gov. Mitt Romney, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Gov. Bill Richardson. He has also anchored the broadcast from Iowa, New Hampshire and other primary battlegrounds.
Moran has also reported extensively from overseas for "Nightline," covering the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He also hosted "Nightline's" one-hour special on Iraq in April 2008, an in-depth interview of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker after they testified before Congress. In 2006, he interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney in Iraq, and in 2008, he interviewed President Bush in Saudi Arabia.
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In June 2006, Moran traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for a weeklong "Nightline" series on the American detention facility there and the controversies surrounding interrogation techniques, conditions and the legal status of the 200-plus men held there as "enemy combatants." Moran was at Guantanamo Bay when the Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on the rights of the detainees, Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, and he reported on the case and its impact for all ABC News programs.
Among the major domestic news stories, Moran has covered for "Nightline": He led the program's coverage for a week from Blacksburg, Va., covering the tragedy at Virginia Tech; he spent a week reporting on the California wildfires in the fall of 2007, hosting "Nightline's" critically acclaimed one-hour special from the fire zone; he was on the scene in Los Angeles reporting on the huge immigration rallies there in May of 2006; and he has chronicled the continuing struggle of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Moran was on the Gulf Coast when the storm slammed ashore in 2005, reporting for all ABC News programs.
Moran has interviewed a wide range of celebrities, musicians and authors including: Kanye West; Keira Knightley; Khaled Hosseini, author of "A Thousand Splendid Suns"; Natalie Portman; Francis Ford Coppola; and Ryan Seacrest.
Before co-anchoring "Nightline," Moran was ABC's chief White House correspondent for six years, covering the administrations of President Clinton and George W. Bush. In 2006, Moran was honored by the White House Correspondents Association with the Merriman Smith award, for excellence in presidential reporting on deadline. In 2007, Moran received the George Foster Peabody award for his work reporting and anchoring the one-hour ABC News documentary "Out of Control: AIDS in Black America."
In 2004, Moran was named anchor of "World News Tonight Sunday," a position he held until joining "Nightline."
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