Marcus Moore
Marcus Moore is a London-based foreign correspondent for ABC News, moving to the bureau in October 2022. Since then, he has covered the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, as well as the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
In September 2024, he and his team were on the scene in southern Beirut, Lebanon, as hand-held radios of suspected members of Hezbollah exploded at a funeral he was attending. Moore also witnessed firsthand the Israeli airstrikes that killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. In addition, he has reported on the ground in Israel on the war in Gaza and covered the catastrophic earthquake in southern Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023, which killed more than 50,000 people.
Since joining ABC News in 2017 as a Dallas-based correspondent, Moore has covered major global news events. He covered the Vatican, including Pope Francis’ historic trip to Canada to apologize to the Indigenous community for the church’s role in residential schools. He broadcast from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on efforts to rescue 14 American missionaries who were kidnapped and held for ransom by a criminal gang. Just months prior, he was in Haiti again, covering the assassination of then-President Jovenel Moïse.
In 2021, Moore filed reports from Germany’s Eifel region, where historic floodwaters wiped away entire villages and claimed the lives of more than 100 people. He has also filed reports on the migrant crisis in Mexico and Guatemala. He covered pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and filed live reports from New Zealand after the devastating White Island volcano eruption off the coast of Whakatane in 2019. That same year, Moore broadcast live from the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France.
In 2019, he and his team were in The Bahamas’ Marsh Harbour as Hurricane Dorian’s eye made a direct hit, reporting extensively on the Category 5 hurricane that devastated the island.
In 2010, Moore covered the miraculous rescue of 33 trapped miners near Copiapó, Chile, and traveled to Turkey to document how Syrian refugees were adapting to life outside their country.
Stateside, Moore has covered some of the defining moments of our time, including the protests in Minneapolis over the murder of George Floyd, the Botham John police shooting in Dallas, and the deadly mass shootings in Uvalde, El Paso, Santa Fe and Sutherland Springs, Texas. Early in his career, he broadcast live from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, as Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005.
Before joining ABC News, Moore was an anchor/reporter at WFAA-TV in Dallas. Prior to that, he served as a reporter/fill-in anchor at KMBC-TV in Kansas City. He was the weekend anchor at WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi. Moore worked as a reporter at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. At 16, he landed his first job as a studio camera operator at KBTX in Bryan, Texas, eventually moving up to weekend reporter.
Moore is fluent in Spanish and Russian.
