Ray Moynihan is an Australian researcher, health journalist, documentary-maker and author. Employed for many years as an investigative journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he has also worked for the Australian Financial Review and is currently a visiting editor at the British Medical Journal and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He was also a correspondent for Radio New Zealand. [1] His stories regularly appear in the BMJ, The Australian, Crikey and the ABC.in Australia. Moynihan is a prolific public speaker. [2] [3]
Moynihan grew up in Brisbane, Queensland and on graduating from the University of Queensland, worked as a reporter at community radio station 4ZZZ. [4] He joined ABC Radio News Brisbane in the mid 1980s as a reporter, staying with the organisation for over a decade in a variety of roles including the presenter of the investigative radio program 'Background Briefing,' reporter for JJJ and the '7.30 Report' and researcher then producer at Four Corners, where he developed a strong interest in health reporting. Moynihan went on to write a number of books. [5] He spent 1999 at Harvard University after winning a Harkness Fellowship, [6] and now works part-time as an academic at the University of Newcastle. [7] [8] Moynihan lives in Byron Bay with his partner, filmmaker Miranda Burne. [9] In 2006 Moynihan coordinated an April Fool's Joke with a health campaign about motivational deficiency disorder.
![]() | This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources .(February 2024) |