 He worked as the India correspondent of several British newspapers, and in 1950 became The Times of India's first "Indian editor", amidst a changing post-colonial situation.On returning from Ceylon in 1949, Frank Moraes was named editor of "The National Standard", a Goenka-owned Indian newspaper that later morphed into The Indian Express.According to another journalist of Goan origin, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, "[A]t that time I was on the news copy desk as well as being the music critic, and remember him as an individual who kept himself aloof, quite unlike other editors I have worked with.