Education
A Minnesota native, Moen attended Ridgewater College in Minnesota and earned a master"s degree in journalism in 1978 from Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism.
A Minnesota native, Moen attended Ridgewater College in Minnesota and earned a master"s degree in journalism in 1978 from Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism.
Moen began her broadcasting career working for television stations in Rockford, Illinois and Charleston, South Carolina. In 1981, Moen joined WBBM-TV-television in Chicago as the host of the weekday morning public-affairs program Daybreak. Moen also co-hosted the public-affairs program Two on 2 along with Bob Wallace and later with Aldo Gandia until the program was canceled in 1988.
After Two on 2 was canceled, Moen stayed at WBBM-TV until 1993, working as a fill-in general assignment news reporter and also hosting local weekday morning news cut-ins and a weekend talk show titled Newday Chicago.
Moen left WBBM-TV-television in 1990 to care for her family, but returned in late 1991 as a part-time and weekend reporter. She left the station for a second time in 1994.
Moen moved to WTKR-television in Norfolk, Virginia in the mid-1990s, and also worked for the Travel Channel, hosting a series on romantic inns.