J. Keith Moyer
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J. Keith Moyer is former president and publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He served in the position from 2001 until March 2007, when he retired upon the sale of the Star Tribune by The McClatchy Company to Avista Capital Partners
. Before this position he served as publisher for the Fresno Bee.
Moyer joined McClatchy in 1994 as The Bee’s executive editor. Before arriving in Fresno, Moyer served as editor/vice president of the Democrat and Chronicle
and the now defunct Rochester Times-Union
in Rochester, N.Y. During a career spanning almost 15 years with the Gannett Co., he also held top newsroom roles at Gannett’s News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla.; and the Arkansas Gazette
in Little Rock, Ark.
In his early career, Moyer served as a reporter, assistant city editor, projects editor, features editor and managing editor at newspapers in Tampa, Fla., Lakeland, Fla., Fort Myers, Fla., Rochester, N.Y. and White Plains, N.Y., before being named executive editor of the News-Press in Fort Myers in 1986. Moyer served as editor of the News-Press until 1990, and during that time he oversaw coverage of poor social conditions faced by African Americans in Southwest Florida that won the 1990 Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. He was honored as Gannett Co.'s Editor of the Year in 1989.
During his tenure as editor of The Fresno Bee, the newspaper was twice named the best in its circulation category by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in competition with 12 similar-sized dailies in the state. Moyer also is a two-time Penney-Missouri journalism award winner and has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize
juror.
He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida
and serves on the Board of Advocates for the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, which bestowed Alumni of Distinction honors upon him in 2003. He also was named to the Hall of Fame of the university's student daily, the Independent Florida Alligator, in 2004.
Moyer's wife, Marilyn, is a writing coach for the Padilla Speer Beardsley public relations firm, http://www.psbpr.com and has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Fresno State University. They live in Orono, MN, with daughter Samantha. The Moyers have two other children, son Austin, of Tokyo, Japan, and daughter, Alexis, of Los Angeles, CA.
Avista Capital Partners
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. Before this position he served as publisher for the Fresno Bee.
Moyer joined McClatchy in 1994 as The Bee’s executive editor. Before arriving in Fresno, Moyer served as editor/vice president of the Democrat and Chronicle
Democrat and Chronicle
The Democrat and Chronicle is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in the greater Rochester, New York area. Located at 55 Exchange Boulevard in downtown Rochester, the Democrat and Chronicle operates under the ownership of Gannett. The paper's production facility is located in the town of...
and the now defunct Rochester Times-Union
Rochester Times-Union
The Times-Union was a widely circulated daily newspaper in the greater Rochester, New York area for 79 years. It was published as an afternoon daily counterpart to the morning Democrat and Chronicle under the ownership of Gannett when it ceased operations in 1997...
in Rochester, N.Y. During a career spanning almost 15 years with the Gannett Co., he also held top newsroom roles at Gannett’s News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla.; and the Arkansas Gazette
Arkansas Gazette
The Arkansas Gazette, known as the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River, and located from 1908 until its October 18, 1991 closing at the now historic Gazette Building, was for many years the newspaper of record for Little Rock and the State of Arkansas...
in Little Rock, Ark.
In his early career, Moyer served as a reporter, assistant city editor, projects editor, features editor and managing editor at newspapers in Tampa, Fla., Lakeland, Fla., Fort Myers, Fla., Rochester, N.Y. and White Plains, N.Y., before being named executive editor of the News-Press in Fort Myers in 1986. Moyer served as editor of the News-Press until 1990, and during that time he oversaw coverage of poor social conditions faced by African Americans in Southwest Florida that won the 1990 Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. He was honored as Gannett Co.'s Editor of the Year in 1989.
During his tenure as editor of The Fresno Bee, the newspaper was twice named the best in its circulation category by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in competition with 12 similar-sized dailies in the state. Moyer also is a two-time Penney-Missouri journalism award winner and has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
juror.
He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
and serves on the Board of Advocates for the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, which bestowed Alumni of Distinction honors upon him in 2003. He also was named to the Hall of Fame of the university's student daily, the Independent Florida Alligator, in 2004.
Moyer's wife, Marilyn, is a writing coach for the Padilla Speer Beardsley public relations firm, http://www.psbpr.com and has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Fresno State University. They live in Orono, MN, with daughter Samantha. The Moyers have two other children, son Austin, of Tokyo, Japan, and daughter, Alexis, of Los Angeles, CA.