J. Keith Moyer

Joseph Keith Moyer (born in 1952, Louisville, KY) is former president and publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Moyer served in the position from 2001 until March 2007, when Moyer retired upon the sale of the Star Tribune by The McClatchy Company to Avista Capital Partners. Before this position Moyer served as publisher and president for the Fresno Bee.

Moyer has been a Senior Fellow of journalism since 2010 in the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he teaches courses ranging from advertising, the media economy and news writing.

Moyer joined McClatchy in 1994 as The Bee’s executive editor. Before arriving in Fresno Moyer served as editor/vice president of the Democrat and Chronicle and the now defunct Rochester Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y. During a career spanning almost 15 years with the Gannett Co., Moyer also held top newsroom roles at Gannett’s News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla.; and the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, Ark.

In his early career, Moyer served as a reporter, assistant city editor, projects editor, features editor and managing editor at newspapers in Tampa, Fla., Lakeland, Fla., Fort Myers, Fla., Rochester, N.Y. and White Plains, N.Y., before being named executive editor of the News-Press in 1986. Moyer served as editor of the News-Press until 1990 and, during that time, he oversaw coverage of poor social conditions faced by African Americans in Southwest Florida that won the 1990 Grand Prize in the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. Moyer was honored as Gannett Co.'s editor of the Year in 1989.

During Moyer's tenure as executive editor and vice president of The Fresno Bee, the newspaper was twice named best newspaper in its circulation category by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in competition with 12 similar-sized dailies. Moyer also is a two-time Penney-Missouri journalism award winner and has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.

Moyer holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida and was awarded Alumni of Distinction honors by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications in 2003.

Moyer's wife, Marilyn, is a writing coach for the Padilla Speer Beardsley public relations firm, and has taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Fresno State University. The Moyers live in Orono, MN.