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Keith Moor
Currently Insight Editor at the
Herald Sun, Keith studied journalism at the west Australian Institute of
Technology before starting a cadetship with the Perth Daily News in 1979.
Keith moved to England in 1981 and
worked for the Newcastle Journal as a general reporter before returning to
Australia and joining the Melbourne Herald in 1983.
He was the Herald's Chief Police
Reporter and was also based in Canberra for two years as a political
correspondent for the Melbourne Herald before returning to England in 1987 as
Industrial Editor for the Newcastle Journal.
Keith won Australia's top journalism
award, the Walkley Award for news reporting, in 1986. He won the coveted award
for his coverage of the kidnap of two Victorian aid workers in Pakistan . Keith travelled
into war-torn Afghanistan to find the couple.
While in England he wrote a book on
the Life and crimes of Australia's most wanted man, Calabrian
Mafia boss Robert Trimbole. The book,
Crims in Grass Houses, was published in 1987. It reached number 3 on the national
best-seller list.
Keith returned to Melbourne to the
Herald Sun in 1988 as an investigative reporter and was made Chief of Staff
later that year. He became the Herald Sun's first Chief of Staff when the paper
formed in 1990, later progressing to become its News Editor and Managing Editor
(News) in 1995.
Keith is the head of the Herald
Sun's investigative unit, having been appointed Insight Editor in 1996.
He was highly commended at the 1997
and 1998 Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in the news/magazine feature section
and in the 2000 Quilll Awards for the Best Feature in Print. Keith was highly
commended in the 2001 Quill Awards.
Keith won the News Limited
Newsbreaker of the Year award in July 2004. More than 300 journalists at News
Limited's 130 titles across Australia we eligible for the award.
Keith and colleague, Geoff
Wilkinson, joined forces in two fantastic true crime books: Mugshots 1 (2003)
and Mugshots 2 (2006)
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