Overview

• He served as White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson from July 1965 to February 1967 and resigned in protest of the Vietnam War escalation.
• As publisher of Newsday from 1967 to 1970, he transformed the paper’s investigative reporting and led it to two Pulitzer Prizes.
• He spent over 40 years at PBS and CBS hosting and producing programs such as Bill Moyers Journal, Frontline and Now, tackling issues from government corruption to environmental abuse.
• In 1986, he and his wife founded Public Affairs Television to independently fund and produce in-depth documentaries, including In Search of the Constitution.
• He earned more than 30 Emmy Awards, 11 Peabody Awards and induction into the Television Hall of Fame, and became a vocal advocate for public media’s role in democracy.