J. Keith Moyer

Keith Moyer is publisher and editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Moyer joined the RJ February 5, 2016 as editor-in-chief, leaving his faculty position of six years at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[1] He became publisher on March 26, 2018.[2]

J. Keith Moyer
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEditor/Publisher
EmployerLas Vegas Review-Journal
Spouse(s)Marilyn

Moyer was president and publisher of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 2001 to 2007. He had earlier been publisher and president for the Fresno Bee from 1997 until 2001.[3]

Moyer joined the McClatchy Co. in 1994 as The Fresno Bee's executive editor.[4]

Moyer also held top newsroom roles at Gannett Co. Inc.'s News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida, Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, NY, Westchester-Rockland Newspapers in White Plains, NY, and Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock.[5]

In Fort Myers, Moyer served as editor of the News-Press from 1986 until 1990; 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 for "Far from the Dream," a 12-part series of stories.[6]

He is a 1977 graduate and Alumni of Distinction from the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Florida.[7]

References
  1. Busch, Kristina. "U professor named Las Vegas Review-Journal editor-in-chief". The Minnesota Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  2. Moyer, J. Keith. "J. Keith Moyer". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. "Retirement Announcement". Archived from the original on 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
  4. "Former Bee publisher Keith Moyer to Lead Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom". The Fresno Bee. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. "Moyer named as new publisher of Las Vegas Review-Journal". AP NEWS. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  6. "1973: A look back at Southwest Florida". The News-Press. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  7. "J. Keith Moyer". UF College of Journalism and Communications. Retrieved 2020-10-24.


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