Terry Moran

Terry Moran (born December 9 1959, Chicago, Illinois) is the co-anchor of Nightline. He had been ABC News' chief White House correspondent from September 1999 to November 2005. He appeared in the 2007 hit comedy, [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408839/ The Heartbreak Kid (2007) ] ] The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben Stiller. He often anchors "World News", "Nightline", and other ABC News broadcasts.

Prior to his White House assignment, Moran covered Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign. Moran became one of the three full-time anchors of "Nightline" following Ted Koppel's last broadcast in November 2005.

Education/Awards

He graduated from Lawrence University in 1982 and worked as a correspondent and anchor for Court TV, where he was recognized for his expertise in covering the Lyle and Erik Menendez murder trial in Los Angeles in 1993. He received the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award in 2003.

Publications

Moran has had pieces published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post" and "The New Republic".

Family

Moran was one of ten children in his family. One of his brothers, Rick Moran, is a radio personality and blogger, whose site Right Wing Nuthouse has garnered considerable Internet controversy. His other brothers, Greg, Jim, John, and Larry are a reporter for the San Diego Union, a teacher, a business consultant, and a banker respectively. The occupation of his brother Jay is unknown. His sisters, Margaret "Peggy" Zwisler, Maribeth, Rosemary, and Peggy are a trial lawyer, a minister, a stay-at-home mother, and a partner in a law firm respectively. He has a wife and a daughter.

Controversy

Terry Moran was involved in controversy in 2001 when Secretary of Labor nominee Linda Chavez was accused of housing an illegal alien by Moran's sister Margaret "Peggy" Zwisler. According to news reports, Chavez helped Mercado find work at the home of neighbor Margaret Zwisler.

According to columnist Robert Novak who wrote in a January 2001 column, Zwisler was a member of the "Democratic law firm of Howrey and Simon and her associate was W. Neil Eggleston, former Clinton White House counsel and later Clinton's personal lawyer."

It is unknown whether Zwisler was ever charged or investigated for employing an illegal alien. According to Chavez's autobiography, Peggy Zwisler went to ABC News with the story, "which was the first news organization to break the story...Terry Moran, the White House correspndent for ABC News, is Zwisler's brother, a relevant fact the network never reported in its many stories." ("An Unlikely Conservative," by Linda Chavez. Page 240. 2002, Basic Books)

Zwisler's revelation to the media resulted in Chavez withdrawing from the Secretary of Labor position. ABC News correspondant Terry Moran never admitted publicly that his sister provided him the information on Chavez and Mercado, though ABC News was the first news organization to break the story, this fact was never mentioned by the network during their coverage of the Chavez nomination. [http://books.google.com/books?id=1sebTYTU-U4C&dq]

One of Moran's brothers, Rick Moran, is a radio personality and blogger, whose site Right Wing Nuthouse has garnered considerable Internet controversy.

References

External links

* [http://talkshows.about.com/od/nightline/p/NightlineBios.htm Bio]
* [http://blogs.abcnews.com/terrymoran/ ABC News Blog]

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