Moody was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Moody is a 1975 graduate of
Cornell University, where he worked for
WVBR-FM. He then began working for
United Press International, serving successively as the
Moscow and
Paris bureau chief. Afterwards, Moody went to work for
Time, serving as the Vatican correspondent and bureau chiefs for Rome, Latin America and finally New York. As the N.Y. bureau chief, Moody was against the 1996 Time/Warner buyout of
Turner Broadcasting. He instructed his staff "not to co-operate" with CNN, which he saw as a competitor to
Time. In 1992, Moody received the
Inter-American Press Association Bartholomew Mitre Award for his interview with
Cali cartel kingpin
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. An anti-Fox News documentary,
Outfoxed, accused Moody of circulating internal memos encouraging political bias in Fox's reporting. After three different Fox News shows in January 2007 repeated an
Insight on the News story about
Barack Obama attending a radical madrassa school as a child, Moody said Fox "commentators had erred by citing the Clinton-Obama report. The hosts violated one of our general rules, which is know what you are talking about. They reported information from a publication whose accuracy we didn't know." On August 15, 2008, Moody wrote an editorial lambasting
John Murtha for saying, "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area." As a native of west Pennsylvania, Moody said Murtha can "go to hell" and called him a "jagoff." On February 8, 2018, Moody wrote an editorial arguing that the
U.S. Olympic Committee wants to change the Olympic Games' motto to "Darker, Gayer, Different." "No sport that we are aware of awards points — or medals — for skin color or sexual orientation," Moody said. Fox News pulled the column, stating that it did "not reflect the views or values of FOX News." In March 2018, he retired from Fox News. In 2018, former
Fox News executive
Ken LaCorte recruited Moody and former
NPR editorial director
Michael Oreskes to launch LaCorte News, a digital news startup "restoring faith in media." An investigation by
New York Times in November 2019 found that LaCorte was using "Russian tactics" to disseminate divisive content via websites he covertly controlled. ==Works==