Banking reporter for Denver Post leaving for Dallas Morning News job

Miles Moffeit, an investigative reporter for the Denver Post who has been covering economic issues for the past year, resigned Thursday from the paper to become an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News.

His last day at the Post will be April 8. Moffeit had been part of the business desk since January 2009.

Earlier this month, Moffeit and colleague Aldo Svaldi won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers “Best in Business” award in the investigative project category for their story investigating how state and federal regulator mistakes allowed Greeley’s New Frontier Bank to fail.

Moffeit was also recognized in 2003 by SABEW for his narrative series that chronicled Qwest Corp.’s illegal accounting and spending tactics.

In 2003, his Pulitzer Prize-nominated series, Betrayal in the Ranks, helped bring a murder suspect to trial by exposing how the U.S. military fails victims of sexual and domestic violence.  As a result, Congress passed a series of legislative reforms the following year.  Moffeit’s influence continued in 2004 when his reports over the prisoner abuse in Iraq prompted changes in how the military investigates the death of detainees.

Moffeit, an Oklahoma native, has been an investigative reporter for the Post since 2002. He has also worked as a staff writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Times-Herald.

The Center on Media, Crime and Justice at New York City’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice honored him and colleague Susan Greene with the 2007 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award for “Trashing the Truth,” a sprawling series documenting the failure of law enforcement agencies to safekeep DNA evidence in a slew of situations.