Holliday Moore

Holliday Moore is the news and public affairs director for WAER. Moore leads the station’s professional staff and oversees the mission of developing Newhouse School students aspiring to be broadcasters and journalists.  

The award-winning reporter, anchor and journalism instructor arrives in Syracuse after working in the Phoenix, Arizona, market, where her extensive experience includes tenures as a Morning Edition reporter for KJZZ-FM, the local NPR affiliate; producing, anchoring and reporting for KTAR News Radio; and serving as a political and senior reporter for KNXV-TV.  

Moore's distinguished résumé includes two Emmy Awards, three Edward R. Murrow Awards and a Walter Cronkite Political Excellence Award. She also worked for nine years as a journalism instructor at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism.  

Previous stops for Moore include newsrooms in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C. A graduate of Arizona State with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and marketing and management, Moore also owns and operates a news media consulting business for regional news stations, businesses and nonprofits.