Mr.

Bill D. Moyers

Public Affairs TV
Journalist
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Journalism, Media, and Communications
Elected
1991

 

Mr. Billy Moyers is a former broadcast journalist for more than four decades and current President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. With his wife and creative partner, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers has produced such groundbreaking public affairs series as 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 MindThe Language of LifeGenesis,On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home,America’s First RiverBecoming American: The Chinese ExperienceFaith & Reason, and Moyers on AmericaMoyers 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. For his work, Bill Moyers has 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 AmericaThe Power of MythHealing and the MindThe Language of LifeMoyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, and 

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