Bill Moyers

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  Widely acclaimed as one of America’s most prolific and respected journalists, Bill Moyers has received every major award for his life’s work, including over 35 Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  He is especially known for his remarkable 40-year run on public television with such breakthrough programs as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, A World of Ideas, Healing and the Mind, On Our Own Terms: Death and Dying, Buying the War, his weekly series NOW with Bill Moyers and Bill Moyers Journal, and many award-winning investigative documentaries.  He will be returning to the air in January of 2012 with his new series Moyers and Company.

  Moyers entered journalism as a cub reporter on his hometown daily newspaper in Marshall, Texas, was an organizing founder and deputy director of the Peace Corps, Special Assistant and then Press Secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, and publisher of Newsday before beginning his broadcast career in 1971.  He currently serves as president of the Schumann Media Center, a non-profit organization that supports independent journalism, and is the author of several best-selling books, including Moyers on Democracy and, most recently, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues.