Richard
Moore
Editor, photojournalist, author, web-publisher, copy-editor
2020:
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New York-based freelance photographer and journalist.
* Photo essays on Food Banks and Homelessness in New York (in progress)
2019:
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Editor of the Cook Islands News,
the national daily newspaper of the Cook Islands.
Work involved re-writing copy, fact checking, laying out pages, training staff, maintaining contacts with politicians and business community, staying within budget and meeting deadlines.
* Accredited journalist covering the Asian Development Bank annual meeting in Fiji.
Key coverage included breakdowns of multi-billion dollar budgets affecting the 69 member states.
* Coverage of White Island volcano tragedy in New Zealand.
* Published novel The Vein Openers.
2018:
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Deputy Editor and chief photographer on the Cook Islands News,
Rarotonga.
Copy-editing, re-writing articles, page layouts, news photography.
* Travel writer for NZME newspapers
(2014 to 2020).
2017:
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Freelance photographer and journalist.
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Deputy Editor and chief photographer on the Cook Islands News,
Rarotonga.
Copy-editing, re-writing articles, page layouts, news photography.
2016:
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Winner of Travel Communicator's best photograph taken outside New
Zealand.
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Stories
and photos of Cyclone Winston in Fiji. Photos
of Cyclone Winston destruction.
* Stories and photos on the unique Wogasia Spear Festival in the Solomon Islands.
* Deputy Editor and chief photographer on the Cook Islands
News, Rarotonga.
2015:
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Coverage of 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo celebrations in Belgium.
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Creation
of new Solomon
Islands travel website.
2014:
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Photo essay on a year at Surf Lifesaving Club. Click
for Papamoa Surf-Lifesaving Club images.
* Senior sub-editor at PageMastersNZ editing daily regional newspapers
around New Zealand (2008 to 2015).
* Columnist on Bay of Plenty Times
commenting on issues of the week (2005 to 2016).
* Owner/editor of Tikitouring.co.nz,
an online travel magazine attracting 60,000 visitors a month.
* Owner/editor of The
Napoleonic Guide, a 4000-page online encyclopaedia
of the Napoleonic Wars that has 150,000 visitors a month.
2013:
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Creation of Victoria,
Australia travel website.
2012:
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Continuing photo essay on effects of Rena Oil Spill Disaster.
* Audio-visual presentations of Rena disaster to community
groups around Tauranga.
2008-2011:
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Photo essay on the Rena
Oil Spill Disaster.
* Created Cook
Islands travel website.
2004-2008:
* APN Headline Writer of Year 2007.
* Qantas Awards headline finalist 2006.
* Finance writer for international bank websites.
* Internet content provider for Australia's search portal
Web Wombat.
1999-2004:
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Content manager and editor of Web Wombat search portal (www.webwombat.com.au).
* Creation of The Napoleonic Guide and TikiTouring.co.nz.
1990-1998:
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Layout sub-editor on the Melbourne Age newspaper, including
production editor of IT computer sections and Page One sub-editor.
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Created GameBlitz computer-game review website.
1988-1990:
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Sub-editor for British Broadcasting Corporation's World
Service, London, England.
* Sub-editor for The Daily Telegraph, London.
* Photo
essay in Berlin on fall of the Berlin Wall.
* Photo
essay on The Troubles in Belfast.
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