Season 2, Ep. 17 - Doug Moe, October 2024

Bio:
Doug is a lifelong Madisonian and has worked as a journalist for more than four decades as a magazine editor, newspaper columnist, freelance writer and book author.

He spent 5 years as editor of Madison Magazine and almost 20 years as a daily newspaper columnist, first for The Capital Times, then the Wisconsin State Journal. In that time he was named Madison’s best writer or columnist more than a dozen times in a variety of reader polls.

Most recently, Doug was named both Madison’s best local author and best columnist in a Madison Magazine readers’ poll published in the October 2024 issue.

In 2018 he was named Wisconsin’s best digital columnist by the Milwaukee Press Club, an award he won again in 2023. His 2018 Madison Magazine story on Madison police chief Mike Koval was a finalist for best profile in the national City and Regional Magazine Association annual contest.

Doug has been called the “inimitable chronicler of Madison” by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss, and “a star among Wisconsin journalists” by  Bill Lueders in Milwaukee Magazine.

Doug is the author of more than a dozen books, including “The World of Mike Royko,” a Chicago Tribune Choice Selection of the year; “Lords of the Ring: The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing’s Greatest Team,” runner-up for the Derleth Award for the best nonfiction book of the year by a Wisconsin author; “Tommy: My Journey of a Lifetime,” a collaboration with Tommy Thompson on the four-term governor’s autobiography; “The Right Thing to Do: Kit Saunders-Nordeen and the Rise of Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin and Beyond”; and,  most recently, “Moments of Happiness: A Wisconsin Band Story,” a collaboration with Mike Leckrone on the legendary UW-Madison band leader’s autobiography.

LINKS:
https://dougmoe.org/