Born in Garfield Heights, Ohio, in 1984, I moved nine times around the United States throughout my childhood and early journalism career.
It opened my eyes to a wealth of culture, and instilled a thirst to explore the rest of the world. My next stop would be São Paulo, Brazil, in June 2008.
Taking in the sights of a nearly cleared sugar cane field in Sertãozinho, Brazil, in August 2007. Manual cane cutters in the background hack down the remaining stalks with machetes. (Photo by Marcelo Min/Agencia Fotogarrafa)
I graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
I served summer reporting internships with The (Findlay) Courier, and The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, before moving south to Lafayette, La., to join The Daily Advertiser as a growth and development reporter in September 2006.
In spring 2007, I was one of 13 U.S. reporters to win a World Affairs Journalism Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists. The youngest reporter (then age 22) to win the competitive program, I traveled to São Paulo, Brazil, in August 2007 to study the world’s most successful sugar cane ethanol producers, and compare them to Southern Louisiana’s budding sugar cane ethanol efforts. My 14-story series, “A New Day for Ethanol in Louisiana,” appeared Nov. 1-4, 2007, in The Daily Advertiser and its sister newspapers throughout Louisiana.
I have lived in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2008, working as an editor and freelance reporter for newspapers and magazines in Brazil, the U.S. and Europe.
See my resume.
Contact me at bobmoser333 [at] gmail [dot] com.
