Donate NowWe regret the loss of our board member David E. Moore, who died at home in Rye, New York, on August 2, 2011.
David was a founding trustee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting at its establishment in early 2006 and served on its board of directors after the Center incorporated as an independent entity in June 2009. The financial support of David and his wife Katherine has been instrumental in the growth of the Center, from a one-person shop to an organization that now commissions over 50 international projects a year and works with dozens of news-media outlets and educational institutions to engage the broadest possible public in the big systemic issues that affect us all.
David was a grandson of the first Joseph Pulitzer and devoted much of his life to the high-quality, enterprising journalism for which his family had come to be known. He was the founder of a weekly newspaper in suburban New York, led the growth of business journals in New York and Connecticut, and founded International Business magazine. He also served for many years as a director and member of the executive committee of the Pulitzer Publishing Co. and of its successor organization, Pulitzer, Inc., owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and newspapers and television stations across the country.
Journalism was but one of the passions in a life devoted to a rich array of causes, from community education to the environment and international economic development. David was the founder and first chair of the Rye Art Center and a director of organizations that ranged from the Westchester Urban League and the New York Community Media Alliance to the Westchester Community College Foundation and the World Security Institute.
For us at the Pulitzer Center David was a much valued counselor and friend, quick with suggestions as to contacts we should make and subjects we should pursue. He asked that we send him printouts and DVDs of all the journalism we commissioned and—more important—he read and watched the work and got back to us with trenchant, useful critiques. In meetings he was sharp-witted and good-humored, eager with questions and advice.
He was our great exemplar of the fully lived life—traveling with Katherine around the globe, devoted to his family and friends, alert always to needs unmet and justice unserved. He will be deeply missed.