Sunday, September 21, 2008

Francis Moriarty

Francis Moriarty is senior political reporter for Radio Television Hong Kong , the of Hong Kong. Responsible for reporting, analysis and commentary on all , he was RTHK's lead reporter covering the 1997 , and has covered every election there since 1991. He has also reported major regional and world stories, including the , the United States-led invasion of Iraq and the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

He is a member of Board of Governors of the Foreign Correspondents' Club , founding chairman of FCC Press Freedom Committee and founding organiser of Human Rights Press Awards. His work has been published in numerous newspapers here and abroad, and on many local and overseas radio and television broadcasts.

Moriarty was a Fellow at the Journalists in Europe programme at the French National Journalism Centre. He holds an MJ degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA degree from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He has been living and working in Hong Kong since 1989, married in Hong Kong in 2006.

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