 He was previously Chief Executive Officer of NewsCore, the former internal wire service of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the then-parent company of 20th Century Fox and Fox News), and Senior Vice President, News Editorial for the Fox News Channel before that.Moody was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.In 1975, he graduated from Cornell University, where he worked for WVBR-FM, and began working for United Press International, serving successively as the Moscow and Paris bureau chief.