Online Editors Harris, Moor join ASNE Board

• By: ASNE staff
• On: 09/08/2009 15:20:00
• In: ASNE business

Two online journalism leaders, Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Anthony Moor, have been named to the board of directors of the American Society of News Editors.

ASNE President Martin Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, appointed the two new board members under special provisions approved by the organization's membership earlier this year to reach out to news executives beyond the group's print newspaper roots. ASNE's board unanimously ratified the selections.

“I am ecstatic that John and Anthony have committed to join us and share their expertise as ASNE and journalism transform in new and exciting ways,” Kaiser said. “We are in the midst of a critical shift fueled by emerging technology and changing reader habits. ASNE is committed to meeting the challenge of delivering quality journalism in ways that best meet the needs of our democracy.”

Kaiser noted that with inclusion of members from online news operations, nondaily publications and academic leaders, ASNE is “broadening and, we believe, enhancing the conversation that will help society meet its increasingly complex information needs.”

Harris joined The Washington Post as an intern after graduation from Carleton College and stayed for 21 years. At the Post, he covered local politics, state politics in Virginia and national politics. From 1995 to 2001, he covered the Clinton White House. Later, he expanded on that reporting in a history of Bill Clinton's presidency, "The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House." He is also co-author, with Mark Halperin, of a book on presidential politics, "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008."

After a turn in an editing role at the Post, he and another former Post journalist, Jim VandeHei, began conversations about starting a publication from the ground up in the new journalism environment. This led to their alliance with publisher Robert Allbritton and the founding of The Politico (the print newspaper in Washington) and Politico.com, which reaches the larger audience throughout the country.

Moor is Deputy Managing Editor/Interactive at The Dallas Morning News where he directs the newsroom's new media strategy and operations and helped grow dallasnews.com traffic 70 percent in his first year. In 2008 the site was honored with the Radio and Television News Directors Association's Edward R. Murrow Award as the best nonbroadcast Web site.

Previously he served as editor of OrlandoSentinel.com, a 2007 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation winner and 2006 Online News Association general excellence finalist. Moor was new media editor at the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, where he devised the paper's convergence strategy. Earlier, Moor worked at San Francisco's KRON-TV, where he developed an interest in interactive media during the dot-com boom. He was an investigative reporter in Buffalo, state capitol bureau chief in Santa Fe, N.M. and spent two years in Tokyo working in the ABC News and CNN bureaus.

He is on the board of the Online News Association and chaired its 2005 conference in New York.

Founded in 1922, as the American Society of Newspaper Editors, ASNE is active in a number of areas of interest to top editors with priorities on improving freedom of information, diversity, readership and credibility of newspapers. ASNE changed its name in April 2009 to the American Society of News Editors and approved broadening its membership to editors of online news providers and academic leaders.