Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is an American journalist, political commentator, and television host known for documentary programs and interviews examining politics, religion, culture, and public affairs.

NOW with Bill Moyers: An American public-affairs television program hosted by Bill Moyers from 2002 to 2004. The program joined investigative reporting to Moyers’s recurring analysis of American politics.
Lyndon B. Johnson: The 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. Moyers served as Johnson’s press secretary and witnessed the administration from inside.
University of Texas at Austin: A public research university in Austin, Texas, founded in 1883. Moyers studied journalism there before entering political and broadcasting work.
Public journalism: A movement that urges journalists to strengthen civic participation and public problem-solving. Moyers’s programs treated journalism as a forum for democratic inquiry, not only news delivery.
Moyers & Company: A public-affairs television program hosted by Bill Moyers from 2012 to 2015. It brought his long-form interviews and commentary to a later generation of viewers.
Joseph Campbell: An American scholar of mythology whose comparative work influenced popular understandings of myth. Their television conversations made Campbell’s ideas accessible to a broad audience.
Peace Corps: A U.S. government volunteer program established in 1961 to support development and cultural exchange abroad. Moyers served as its deputy director during the Kennedy administration.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting: A nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967 to support public broadcasting in the United States. Moyers’s work repeatedly defended the public-media system supported by the corporation.
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: A 1988 television interview series in which Joseph Campbell discussed myth with Bill Moyers. The series became one of Moyers’s best-known explorations of religion, storytelling, and culture.
Robert MacNeil: A Canadian-American journalist and co-founder of the PBS news program The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. Moyers later became a prominent PBS journalist alongside figures such as MacNeil.

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