| Robert MooreEl Paso Times, El Paso MattersHall of Fame Class of 2022Robert Moore has spent most of his 39-year journalism career on the Texas-New Mexico border working as a reporter, editor and journalistic entrepreneur. Moore’s Texas journalism career began in 1986, when he was hired as an assistant city editor at the El Paso Times. He went on to become city editor, assistant managing editor, managing editor, executive editor and editor/vice president of the Times. He was steadfastly community-focused in his leadership. Moore resigned as editor of the Times in 2017 during downsizing at the paper. In 2018 and 2019, Moore’s work as a freelance reporter uncovered numerous stories about the impact of President Trump’s border enforcement policies. His reporting on the border has been featured by the Washington Post, ProPublica, NPR, the Guardian and Texas Monthly. His most notable work has focused on migrant children in government custody. His extensive coverage in 2018 of the Tornillo child detention facility kept that issue in the public eye and was cited by members of Congress as a key factor in the closure of the tent city. Although Moore built a successful national freelance practice, he remained concerned about the decline in local news in El Paso. In February 2020, he launched El Paso Matters as a one-man nonprofit, nonpartisan news operation. Because of his reputation in the community and in national journalism circles, Moore was able to raise money quickly for expansion. Two years after it began publishing, El Paso Matters has a staff of 11 employees and continues to grow. The award-winning journalist is also an active volunteer in his community, a mentor to many journalists and speaks regularly with high school and college students interested in journalism. He has been married since 1990 to Kate Gannon, a veteran journalist who is now an associate professor of multimedia journalism at the University of Texas at El Paso and director of Borderzine.com.
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