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Bob Moon
Marketplace Senior Business Correspondent
Bob Moon became senior business correspondent for Marketplace in the summer of 2006 after serving five years as the program's New York bureau chief.
Bob sometimes feels a little like Forrest Gump. He's spent a lifetime watching history being made, covering the catastrophic to the wondrous in all 50 states and from far-reaching international datelines.
Bob was asked to head Marketplace's New York Bureau in 2001. In retrospect, the assignment was a fateful one: Just months after he started work in downtown Manhattan, he would be among the stunned witnesses to the attack on the World Trade Center and cover its aftermath.
It was yet another firsthand brush with history.
Bob was on the air describing the launch of Challenger at the Kennedy Space Center when the space shuttle exploded. He has witnessed more than 50 shuttle launches and dozens of landings, and joined astronauts in the shuttle flight simulator at Mission Control in Houston. He's also reported from the scenes of countless disasters, manmade and natural.
Bob covered Ronald Reagan's White House, and returned for brief periods during the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. When Reagan delivered his "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" speech in Berlin, Bob watched just a few feet away. In Reykjavik, Iceland, he stood in the icy night air as Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev emerged in bitter disappointment from their nuclear disarmament summit. (Yes, Bob has traveled aboard Air Force One.)
He was also at the Republican Convention in New Orleans when President George H.W. Bush declared, "Read my lips, no new taxes," and has covered the major political conventions and national elections for two decades.
Bob spent long hours huddled in a rental car along a remote prairie road as the armed Branch Davidian cult resisted federal agents near Waco, Texas. And he was on-scene as the first hours of the tragic rampage at Columbine High School unfolded. He recalls this as a deeply affecting assignment that caused him to seek respite from the intense grind of breaking news.
Before joining Marketplace, Bob served in a variety of assignments over 20 years for The Associated Press. He traveled the world reporting on major news developments, including global economic summits in Rome, Venice and Tokyo, and a Middle East peace summit in Madrid.
Bob grew up in Orange County, Calif. He began his broadcast career at age 18 as a country music disk jockey in Cedar City, Utah. He also was lead evening news anchor at WLEX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Lexington, Ky.
