Nick Moore

Nicholas Moore was born in 1941 and spent his childhood in Africa. He joined Reuters as a trainee from Cambridge University in 1964 and reported from Pakistan, East Africa - where he covered the 1971 coup in which Idi Amin took power in Uganda - and the Lebanon, before becoming oil correspondent in 1980. He led a Reuters reporting team that in 1982 won the Prix Bernard J. Cabanes for covering the OPEC cartel. During the 1980's, based in Cairo, he was roving correspondent in the Middle East...See more

Nicholas Moore was born in 1941 and spent his childhood in Africa. He joined Reuters as a trainee from Cambridge University in 1964 and reported from Pakistan, East Africa - where he covered the 1971 coup in which Idi Amin took power in Uganda - and the Lebanon, before becoming oil correspondent in 1980. He led a Reuters reporting team that in 1982 won the Prix Bernard J. Cabanes for covering the OPEC cartel. During the 1980's, based in Cairo, he was roving correspondent in the Middle East before he returned to oil at the end of the decade. He retired as training editor in 2000. Sidney Weiland started working as a journalist for provincial newspapers in 1945, aged 17. He joined Reuters in 1949, covered various events in Eastern Europe and was appointed as a correspondent in Moscow in 1953. He did two tours in Moscow, interspersed with assignments in Yugoslavia, India, Washington and New York, and spent eight years in Vienna as Eastern Europe Correspondent. He was Reuters diplomatic editor from 1980 to 1986. After retirement owing to ill health, he established East European media training courses for the Reuters Foundation and later taught diplomatic journalism at City University, London. See less