Julia Moore

Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE who covers scripted television, celebrity interviews and breaking entertainment news with a strong focus on character and emotion in the stories she tells. Her reporting blends fast-turn digital news with exclusives that give actors, musicians and other performers room to speak in their own words about career shifts, collaborations and personal turning points. She works across PEOPLE’s digital and print platforms, including event coverage from premieres and red carpets where she translates on-the-ground access into narrative features.

Scripted TV coverage and creative crossroads

Moore’s primary beat is scripted TV, where she follows series, films and their stars through casting news, creative decisions and moments of reinvention. Her coverage of figures like Tina Fey, including a feature on Fey’s admission that her “impulse to hide and retire” is very strong, shows a recurring interest in how established performers negotiate visibility and the desire to step back.

In these pieces she highlights internal crossroads rather than only promotional talking points, using direct quotes to anchor stories about artistic longevity and fatigue. She also brings that approach to franchise projects, such as her exclusive with Demi Lovato about keeping a Camp Rock 3 cameo under wraps, where the focus is on the tension between secrecy, fandom expectations and the experience of returning to a formative role. Her scripted TV writing often positions projects within a wider arc of a performer’s career, connecting individual episodes or films to long-term themes like creative control, typecasting and second chances.

Across this coverage, Moore’s distinguishing mark is the way she frames plot and production news through the emotional stakes for the people making and starring in the work.

Exclusive celebrity interviews and relationships

Moore frequently lands and writes exclusives that revolve around relationships between artists, mentors, collaborators and family members. Her interview with Keke Palmer about Jennifer Lopez, in which Palmer says Lopez has “always given me an opportunity to shine,” fits a pattern in her work of tracing how support from peers and idols shapes a performer’s confidence and career choices.

She uses exclusives to surface these dynamics, weaving quotes with concise context rather than long exposition, so that the subject’s voice carries the piece. In her reporting on an actor responding to a homophobic slur directed at his transgender son, she again centers family ties, respect and public accountability, turning a social media incident into a story about protection and dignity. Across similar features and news stories, Moore returns to the way public figures talk about the people closest to them - friends, creative partners, children - and how those relationships drive their decisions in moments of crisis or celebration.

This emphasis on relationships gives her celebrity coverage a personal texture that goes beyond surface-level lifestyle angles.

Breaking entertainment news and red carpet reporting

Alongside her features, Moore files high-volume breaking entertainment stories across TV, music and movies, operating on tight deadlines that require quick sourcing, clear framing and adherence to house style.

Her role has included producing an average of multiple digital stories per day, ranging from casting announcements to broader entertainment updates, which keeps her close to the daily pulse of the industry. She covers premieres and other events, attending red carpets to gather first-hand quotes and observations that feed both immediate news pieces and more developed print or digital breakouts. That event-driven reporting gives her work a strong sense of time and place - who was there, how they presented themselves and what they chose to say on the record - while still tying back to longer-running storylines in an artist’s career. The combination of speed on breaking items and depth on follow-up features allows her to track stories from announcement through reaction, adding layers over time rather than treating each piece as isolated.

Reporting foundations beyond entertainment

Before joining PEOPLE’s staff, Moore built a portfolio that included campus publications and contributions to outlets such as The Washington Post and Block Club Chicago. Her work at these outlets covered topics like TikTok creators stepping in to provide sex education when schools do not, and internal issues at a suicide-prevention nonprofit, reflecting an early focus on social impact, youth culture and organizational accountability. Those assignments required sensitivity to vulnerable subjects and an ability to translate complex institutional dynamics into accessible narratives, skills that now underpin her handling of personal and sometimes difficult material in entertainment contexts.

This background helps explain her comfort moving between celebratory red carpet coverage and stories that involve identity, mental health or public scrutiny, without shifting into opinion or advocacy.

Across her body of work, Moore’s defining through-line is a commitment to situating entertainment stories in the lived experiences and relationships of the people at their center, whether she is covering a scripted series, a franchise film, a friendship between two stars or a family responding to public harm.