Elizabeth K. Moore is a freelance writer with 25 years of award-winning newspaper experience focused on government, politics and enterprise, feature writing and data journalism. She is at work on a history of the Long Island Rail Road.
Elizabeth K. Moore is a freelance writer with 25 years of award-winning newspaper experience focused on government, politics and enterprise, feature writing and data journalism. She is at work on a history of the Long Island Rail Road.
Elizabeth K. Moore is writing a history of the Long Island Rail Road, to be published in 2025 by Cornell University’s Three Hills Press. She was a 2022-23 Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation Fellow at the Gotham Center for New York City History at CUNY’s Graduate Center.
A longtime former Newsday reporter, her 25 years of award-winning newspaper experience has been focused on government, politics and enterprise, feature writing and data journalism. Her eight-part investigative series for Newsday, "Fire Alarm," for which she used GIS and other data-analysis tools to examine the problems of Long Island's insular volunteer fire service, led to 14 changes in state law. Her stories won the AP's top, New York State feature-writing and business writing awards for large newspapers, and she shared Newsday’s 1997 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 crash.
She covered Hillary Clinton's first campaign for U.S. Senate and Andrew Cuomo’s first campaign for governor, and has covered state and national conventions. She also wrote a human-interest column for the Tacoma Morning Tribune, A New Mother’s Diary, about her daughter's first year. As a Bosch Foundation fellow living in Germany for a year, she contributed a weekly column, Mit Den Augen Einer Amerikanerin, for a newspaper in eastern Germany. She has been a lecturer for nine semesters, teaching beginning and advanced reporting, science and health writing and investigative reporting techniques at the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University. She has a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.