Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers has pursued a broad spectrum of journalism, beginning as a cub reporter for the Marshall News Messenger at the age of 16. In 1986, he established Public Affairs Television with his wife and partner Judith Moyers. This independent production company has produced more than 400 hours of programming including Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy, Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge, Healing and the Mind, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, America's First River: Bill Moyers on the Hudson, and Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. Public Affairs Television also produced the weekly program NOW with Bill Moyers until Bill Moyers' retirement in December, 2004.
During his thirty plus years in the media, he has received numerous awards for excellence, including more than 30 Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and two prestigious Gold Baton awards from the Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award. In 1991, Moyers was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also received 9 George Peabody awards and 2 George Polk Awards, including recently the Career Achievement award.
Before entering broadcasting, Moyers served as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and was Special Assistant to President Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1963- 1967, including two years as White House press secretary. He left the White House in January 1967 to become the publisher of Newsday. For twelve years Moyers was a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and now serves as President of The Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
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Moyers on the squelching, punishing of journalists
COMMENTARY | May 17, 2005
Radical right-wingers ‘have been after me for years now and I suspect they will be stomping on my grave to make sure I don’t come back from the dead,’ says the veteran TV figure.
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