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Editor
Richard Moore
Richard
Moore is an award-winning Australian journalist and photographer
with 40 years' experience in the profession, mainly on daily
broadsheet newspapers and the Internet.
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Go
Cats!
Well
done the boys at Geelong for our three Australian
Rules Football flags in recent years.
Carn
the Catters!
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He
has worked in Australia, New Zealand,England and the Cook
Islands on news organisations such as The Melbourne Age,
the BBC World Service, the Daily Telegraph (London),
the New Zealand Herald, Radio Australia and various
British regional papers.
In
1987 Richard Moore spent a month in Belfast shooting a photo
essay on The Troubles, coming a bit too close to a hand-grenade
attack for his liking, and in 1989 covered the fall of the
Berlin Wall.
His
first foray into web development was a computer game site
called Gameblitz, he then built the Web
Wombat search portal and was editor of it for five years.
Web Wombat now gets more than 800,000 visitors a month.
At
the same time Richard Moore created The
Napoleonic Guide - a 4000-page reference website
on the Napoleonic Era. Built for teachers, students and
history buffs The Napoleonic Guide gets more than 150,000
visitors a month.
In
2004, Richard Moore built TikiTouring.co.nz
and it is now a major tourism website for people travelling
to - or around - New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Solomon
Islands and Victoria, Australia.
He
is currently working in the Cook Islands as a writer, editor,
photographer and senior journalist.
In
addition he has finished a novel on the Napoleonic Wars.
The
factional work follows the campaigns of the Worcestershire
Regiment during the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain.
In
2008 he almost ended up in heaven through a rather inconvenient
heart attack, during which he drove himself to hospital
for treatment.
Richard
is a member of Travel Communicators in NZ and has his travel
stories published by APN regional newspapers and the NZ
Herald.
Go
to www.richardmoore.com
to see his photographs and some of his opinion columns.
He
is a mad keen Geelong Football Club supporter in Australia's
AFL and also supports the mighty Manly Sea Eagles in the
NRL.
To
contact Richard
Moore just click on the link.
