Robert "Bob" Moore, executive editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, returned to Colorado in October 2005 after working in Texas for 20 years, where he rose through the ranks of the El Paso Times to become that paper's executive editor from 2002 to 2005.

Moore served as president of the state's largest journalism organization, Texas Associated Press Managing Editors, in 2004 and organized and moderated George W. Bush's only debate during his 1998 gubernatorial re-election campaign.

While in El Paso, Moore was widely regarded as a leading expert on Texas' open government laws. He supervised several significant reporting projects that relied heavily on overcoming official obstacles to public records access. Moore served on the Texas Daily Newspaper Association's legislative advisory committee and testified before a state Senate committee studying reforms of open records laws. He was also a member of the charter class of the First Amendment Institute, a project of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas to expand public knowledge of free expression issues.

Moore has received numerous journalism awards. He was among 15 people named as outstanding newsroom supervisors for 1999 by Gannett Co. Inc, owner of the El Paso Times. He was named the year 2000 Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Southern Colorado's Mass Communications Department and Center for New Media.

His post-graduate studies included journalism fellowships to the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism's course on race relations at the University of Maryland and to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's program on media coverage of race relations.