A broadcast journalist for more than four decades, Bill Moyers
has been recognized as one of the unique voices of our times, one that
resonates with multiple generations. Mr.Moyers provides fresh, alternative insights
into the personalities and issues shaping our country and the deeper,
more institutional challenges facing us now and in the future. In 2012, at the of 77, Moyers began
his latest media venture with the launch of
Moyers & Company on air and online at
BillMoyers.com – providing “conversations on democracy” and explorations of contemporary culture, making sense of what matters to us all.
With his wife and creative partner, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers
has produced such groundbreaking public affairs series as NOW with Bill
Moyers (from 2002 through 2005) and Bill Moyers Journal (from 2007
through 2010). 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 at age 16 as a cub reporter for his
hometown daily newspaper in Marshall, Texas. He was 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. In the first year it was bestowed, Moyers
received the prestigious Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the American
Film Institute. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
he also received the Career Achievement Award from the International
Documentary Association and has been honored by the Television Critics
Association for outstanding career achievement.
Moyers was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. A year later
he received the Charles Frankel Prize (now the National Humanities
Medal) from the National Endowment for the Humanities “for outstanding
contributions to American cultural life.” In 2005, Moyers received the
PEN USA Courageous Advocacy Award for his passionate, outspoken
commitment to freedom of speech and his dedication to journalistic
integrity. He has also been honored with the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications calls Moyers, “One of the few
broadcast journalists who might be said to approach the stature of
Edward R. Murrow. If Murrow founded broadcast journalism, Moyers
significantly extended its traditions.”
Moyers’ books include such bestsellers as Listening to America, The
Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, The Language of Life, Moyers on
America: A Journalist and His Times, and Moyers on Democracy. His most
recent book, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, was
published in May 2011. He currently serves as president of the Schumann
Media Center, a non-profit organization that supports independent
journalism.
Married for more than 55 years, Judith and Bill Moyers have three grown children and five grandchildren.
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