In a career forged during a disruptive time of media transformation, Anthony Moor combines deep editorial experience with content strategy and product management. As a digital publishing leader, Anthony has grown revenue and traffic for news brands and content startups by focusing on satisfying consumer needs while adhering to journalistic principles that establish brand trust, drive loyalty and conversion.
In recent years, Anthony has contributed to media startups and long-established brands as a consultant, advisor and product director, moving to New York City from northern California, his home off and on for the past three decades. At the Wall Street Journal, he conceived and launched an SEO-focused, expert guides content project aimed at attracting younger, non subscribers.
For NerdWallet, a “unicorn” fintech company with a lead gen model that provides trusted consumer financial advice, he spearheaded double-digit search channel growth. In his role as Senior Director of Product Management for Content at realtor.com, Anthony developed news and advice, search and advertising channels, jumpstarting dormant SEO efforts and the launch of an on-demand video channel.
Anthony spent nearly six years at Yahoo, where his product roles included mobile search and co-branded Yahoo portals for partners. As Director of Editorial Operations, he focused on strategy, media operations and news product development. This included forming a team of talented digital editors across the country to build and launch news and information sites for hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods and cities.
Anthony’s first adventures in media were as a student, where he spent countless hours at WCFM, the radio station of Williams College. He reported news and community affairs, spun discs as a morning DJ and served as the station's general manager. His academic majors were in Astrophysics and American Civilization, disciplines which foreshadowed his later pursuit of the structured logic in software development as well as the instant communication of history through media.
On graduation he accepted an entry-level position as a desk editor at the ABC News bureau in Japan and soon began anchoring an English-language newscast for a Japanese cable TV station, where he occasionally freelanced for CNN. Returning to the U.S. after several years and a 'round-the-world backpack trip, Anthony signed on as the state capitol bureau chief in Santa Fe for a New Mexico TV station, and then as an investigative reporter in Buffalo.
It was in San Francisco that Anthony developed his interest in interactive media. At KRON-TV during the first dot-com boom, he covered fledgling ventures with names such as PayPal, Netscape, RealAudio, Hotwired, Quokka and PointCast. The lure of the Internet startup eventually enticed him to join a broadband business news startup named On24, as a financial correspondent. Their business model did not survive the dot-com bust.
In the 2000s, Anthony served with distinction as editor-in-chief of several regional newspaper websites. At the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, he devised the paper’s TV convergence strategy, and his team won an OJA for creative use of the medium. While he was at the helm in Orlando, his site, OrlandoSentinel.com, won a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation and was an Online News Association general excellence finalist. And under Anthony’s leadership, The Dallas Morning News digital edition was honored with RTNDA’s Edward R. Murrow Award as best non-broadcast website.
Anthony has served on the board of the Online News Association where he directed the Online Journalism Awards. He was one of the first two digital editors appointed to the board at ASNE, the American Society of News Editors. And he's been on Oprah -- although not for any professional reason!