Michael C. Moynihan

Michael C. Moynihan
Other names	Michael Moynihan
Education	University of Massachusetts Amherst B.A. in history
Occupation	Journalist
Title	Managing editor Vice magazine Formerly: Senior editor Reason magazine

Michael C. Moynihan is an American journalist and the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast/Newsweek and the managing editor of Vice magazine. Before that he was a senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason. He was a resident fellow of the free-market think tank, Timbro. Moynihan lived in Sweden and wrote articles about politics in the country, contributing to Swedish-language publications, including Expressen, Aftonbladet, Sveriges Television, Neo and Göteborgs-Tidningen. According to Media Bistro, "Moynihan is perhaps best known for breaking the story on Jonah Lehrer's fabrications."

Moynihan graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

Moynihan founded the Stockholm Spectator, an English-language website based in . According to Sveriges Radio, the site was originally intended to be a print publication modeled on The Village Voice. Writers were mainly English-speaking expatriates living in Sweden. "Despite the fact that so many Swedes speak and read in English there were almost no English-language newspapers in Sweden," said Moynihan to Sveriges Radio in 2004. It maintained a focus on criticism of the media, but also dealt with current topics in politics and music. Moynihan began serving on the editorial board of the Swedish magazine Neo in 2006 along with Peter Wolodarski and Theodore Paues. Swedish politician Carl Bildt sat on the board of the publication.

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