Bill D. Moyers

Bill Moyers was a broadcast journalist for more than four decades and also was the President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. With his wife and creative partner, Judith Davidson Moyers, he produced groundbreaking public affairs series, including NOW with Bill Moyers (2002-2005), Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010) and Moyers & Company (2011-2015). Since the company’s founding in 1986, other notable productions have included the landmark 1988 series, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, as well as Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, Genesis,On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home,America’s First River, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, Faith & Reason, and Moyers on America. 

Moyers began his journalism career as a founding organizer and deputy director of the Peace Corps and special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Moyers served as Johnson’s press secretary from 1965 to 1967. As publisher of Newsday from 1967 to 1970, Moyers brought aboard writers including Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Saul Bellow, and led the paper to two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1976, he was the senior correspondent for the distinguished documentary series CBS Reports and later a senior news analyst for The CBS Evening News. He received more than 30 Emmys, two prestigious Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Awards, nine Peabodys, and three George Polk Awards. Moyers was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. Moyers’ books include such bestsellers as Listening to America, The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, and Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times.