Frazier Moore
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1951)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Use American English|date=October 2024}}
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Hamilton Frazier Moore, Jr. (born April 4, 1951), known as Frazier Moore, is an American journalist. For a quarter-century he was a television reporter/critic for The Associated Press, retiring from that job in December 2017. He is the author of Inside 'Family Guy': An Illustrated History, published in 2019 by HarperCollins.{{Cite web |title=Inside Family Guy |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/inside-family-guy-frazier-moore-1?variant=40969547317282 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}}
Background
Moore grew up in Athens, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia, graduating in 1974 with a journalism degree. He was a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Fort Myers (Florida) News-Press, where he received a National Headliners Award. Other publications for which Moore has written include Spy, Connoisseur, The New York Times, Interview and TV Guide.
He was also Director of Publications for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Career with Associated Press
In 1992, Moore became television critic for The Associated Press, based in New York. In 1993, he was criticised for clandestinely gaining entry to a test show for Conan O’Brien’s then-upcoming late night debut and publishing an editorial criticising the quality of the show and the professionalism of the presenters.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3859&v=jCwlDm3lmFw&feature=youtu.be |title=Conan & Executive Producer Jeff Ross Tell The Origin Story Of "Late Night" {{!}} Inside Conan |date=2023-11-13 |last=Team Coco |access-date=2024-11-28 |via=YouTube}}
Moore served as a Peabody Awards Board member from 2004–2010.{{cite web|title=Past Board Members|url=http://peabodyawards.com/about-the-peabody/peabody-board/past-board-members/|access-date=2012-12-14|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084923/http://peabodyawards.com/about-the-peabody/peabody-board/past-board-members/|url-status=dead}} He has hosted a weekly TV-related commentary for Los Angeles public radio station KCRW.
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Category:University of Georgia alumni
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Category:Journalists from Atlanta
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