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Business Definition for: Moderator

  • somebody in charge of a newsgroup, mailing list discussion group, or similar forum

Wiktionary Definition for: Moderator

  • anyone who moderates
  • #an arbitrator or mediator
  • #the chairman or president of a meeting etc
  • the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
  • # physics a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

Additional Resources

Winning The Price War
From the executive summary: ‘The price which a focus group moderator decides to charge for a product affects a company’s financial success. If a product is costly, it is most likely that the project being handled by focus group might go to some other company. And, if the product is...
Tags: Focus Group Moderator, Focus Group, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2002-08-01
Meet the moderator. (Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert to host weekly talk show on CNBC) (Brief Article)
Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, who also is senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News, will host a weekly talk show ... Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, who also is senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC...
Tags: CNBC
Research articles 1993-12-20
Martha Rountree, 87, co-creator and first moderator of the NBC News program 'Meet the Press' died Aug. 23.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Rountree suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In addition to originating and co-producing Meet the Press, she was the only woman moderator in the show's 52-year history. She also produced several other shows, including Keep Posted, Washington Exclusi Rountree suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In addition to...
Tags: Meet, NBC
Research articles 1999-08-30
Smart shopping
In the current climate of tightened marketing budgets and heightened concerns about air travel, companies that engage in qualitative research are beginning to consider alternatives to traditional face-to-face groups. One of the alternatives available to researchers is the text-based online focus group. There are two general types of text-based online...
Tags: Facility, Message Board, Marketing, Marketing Research, Focus Group
White papers 2001-12-01
MoreVisibility Chief Technology Officer to Speak at WebmasterWorld; Joe Laratro Is Featured Moderator and Panelist on November 16
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- MoreVisibility, one of the world's largest and most experienced Search Engine Marketing companies, today announced its Chief Technology Officer Joe Laratro will be a featured panelist and moderator at WebmasterWorld Search Conference November 16 in Las Vegas.
Research articles 2004-10-28
Boston Globe Announces Special Guest Moderator of IDEAS Boston 2005; Host of WBUR's 'On Point' Tom Ashbrook to Moderate
BOSTON -- The Boston Globe today announced a new addition to its roster for IDEAS Boston 2005: WBUR's Tom Ashbrook will serve as special guest moderator. IDEAS Boston 2005, slated for October 6 & 7, will showcase the remarkable range of ideas, innovation and creativity emanating from New England.
Tags: Boston Globe
Research articles 2005-09-08
Russert: old school rules: Meet the Press moderator discusses his show's long stay at the top.(Campaign 2004)(Interview)
Tim Russert is managing editor and moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, the dominant Sunday news talk show and longest-running program in TV history. He is also NBC News' Washington bureau chief having joined NBC News in 1984 after serving five years Tim Russert...
Tags: NBC
Research articles 2004-09-06
Asset executives provide bayonets at the door The moderator of the Asset Executives Roundtable summarized the session: `Sell your house in California, buy one in Texas, and pick up your bayonet, courtesy of Duke Energy, at the door!'
Playing to a packed house on the third morning of Electric Power 2001 in Baltimore, Md--what other conference retains attendees like that?--three executive panelists, along with moderator Jason Makansi, president of Pearl Street Inc, St. Louis, Mo, painted a raw but refreshingly honest picture of what managing power generation assets...
Tags: asset, Duke Energy Corp.
Research articles 2001-05-01
Washington Mutual Executive Peter R. Villegas to Be Daytime Moderator at Hispanic Business Magazine 2007'S EOY®
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Hispanic Business magazine Editor and Publisher Jesus Chavarria announced that Mr. Peter R. Villegas, first vice president of community & external affairs division for Washington Mutual, will be the daytime moderator for the magazine's annual EOY Awards Gala, which honors the top Hispanic entrepreneurs in the...
Tags: Washington Mutual Inc.
Research articles 2007-10-12
Where should the Fed fit?(Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.)(Brief Article)
Catalyst? Innovator? Moderator? "All of the above," suggests Fed Vice-Chairman Roger Ferguson Catalyst? Innovator? Moderator? "All of the above," suggests Fed Vice-Chairman Roger Ferguson
Tags: Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2000-09-01
Editorial: Are magazines ready to change? (Viewpoint).(Editorial)
It was a moment of truth. Midway through the CEO panel at last month's American Magazine Conference, moderator Ken Auletta interrupted a litany of complaints about the industry's ailing business model. ``I'm not talking to four journalists,'' he rem It was a moment of truth....
Tags: Midway
Research articles 2002-11-04
Special Guest Moderator Announced; Renowned Gartner Analyst Ted Kempf to Moderate Decline of E? Panel
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: Gartner Inc.
Research articles 2001-05-31
Levin explains going-forward. (Blair Levin of Federal Communications Commission) (Western Cable Show 94) (Brief Article)
Moderator Jerry Yanowitz, vice president, federal affairs, the California Cable Television Association, put it mildly: "The level of goodwill between the cable industry and the FCC is not where we would want it to be." He was introducing Moderator Jerry Yanowitz, vice president,...
Tags: cable, FCC
Research articles 1994-12-05
Q&A. (part four of four) (The Role of the FASB - From Three Vantage Points) (panel discussion)
A panel discussion on the role of the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB and its relevance to the needs and opinions of financial statement preparers and users is presented. The panel moderator was Financial Executives Institute Seattle chapter PA panel discussion on the role of the Financial Accounting Standards Board...
Tags: financial, Financial Accounting Standards Board, financial statement, Fox, panel discussion
Research articles 1990-09-01
Emerging Management Challenges: Recommendations for the New Administration and Congress
One moderator and six observers of government management reform gauge the Bush administration's actions and signals through the first six months.
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-09-22
KYW's Siani Lee to Serve as Forum Moderator for Pennsylvania's First Economic Summit; House Speaker Ryan Introduces Moderator's Role for Temple University
Business Editors/Government Writers
Tags: Temple University
Research articles 2001-10-02
IPI CRITICISES SUBPOENA OF JOURNALISTS IN CIA LEAK PROBE
Tim Russert, host and moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," and Matthew Cooper, a reporter with Time Inc., both received subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name. The special proseTim Russert, host and moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," and...
Tags: CIA, subpoena
Research articles 2004-05-30
USA: IPI CRITICISES SUBPOENA OF JOURNALISTS IN CIA LEAK PROBE.
Tim Russert, host and moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," and Matthew Cooper, a reporter with Time Inc., both received subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name. The special Tim Russert, host and moderator of...
Tags: CIA, subpoena
Research articles 2004-05-30
PMA sponsors Bestphotolist.(Photo Marketing Association International)(Brief Article)
Photo Marketing Association International, Jackson Mich., is now sponsoring the Bestphotolist. Bob Banasik, now of DigiBug Express Inc., Waltham. Mass., will still be the moderator of this listserv, which is open to all Bestphotolist members and PMA Photo Marketing Association International, Jackson Mich., is now...
Tags: Photo Marketing Association International
Research articles 2004-09-01
TVB keys in Russert. (Facetime).(Television Bureau of Advertising, Tim Russert to speak)(Brief Article)
TIM RUSSERT, NBC NEWS Washington Bureau Chief and moderator of Meet the Press, will make the keynote speech at the TELEVISION BUREAU OF ADVERTISING'S upcoming marketing conference in April. CHRIS ROHRS, president of the New York-based ad trade TIM...
Tags: advertisement, FaceTime Communications, Meet, TV
Research articles 2003-01-06
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