ABCNEWS Correspondent Terry Moran

ByABC News
December 17, 2000, 2:05 PM

— -- Terry Moran joined ABCNEWS is 1997, and was named an White House correspondent in September 1999. He reports for Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and other ABCNEWS broadcasts.

Most recently, Moran covered Vice President Al Gores presidential campaign, traveling extensively to cover the primary battles between Gore and Sen. Bill Bradley in Iowa, New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday.

As a legal correspondent, Moran has covered a number of important events. From 1998-1999, he was also the networks primary correspondent assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court. He filed stories on several major cases of the term, including: Chicago v. Morales, which tested the citys sweeping anti-gang law; Cedar Rapids School District v. Garrett F., which posed the question of whether public schools are required to provide continuous nursing care for students with severe disabilities; Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the student-on-student sexual harassment case; among others.

Moran also traveled to refugee camps in Macedonia and subsequently to Kosovo, where he covered war-crimes issues, ethnic cleansing, post-war tensions and violence, among other stories.

He was also in Miami when Elian Gonzalez was seized by federal agents and returned to his father. He covered the protests and the civil disturbances in the city that followed the governments action.

Other legal stories Moran has covered for ABCNEWS include: the murder trial of British au pair Louise Woodward in Cambridge, Mass.; the fourth trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian; the trial of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski; the Microsoft antitrust case; and the Portland, Ore., trial of anti-abortion activists sued for contributing to a Web site that the jury found illegally threatened abortion providers.

For Nightline, Morans reports have included: the unique death-penalty case of Horace Kelly, a man who had gone insane on Californias death row and was then brought before a jury that was asked if he should still be executed; the tragic rash of heroin-overdose deaths of teenagers in Plano, Texas; and the remarkable gathering of dozens of former death-row inmates freed when evidence of their innocence came to light. For the last piece, Moran was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award by the Death Penalty Information Center.