Acclaimed journalist Bill Moyers, the former host of the PBS television series “Now with Bill Moyers,” gave a public lecture at Ithaca College September 13. Titled “Moyers on America,” The event was part of a three-day visit to campus by Moyers as the 2005–6 Park Distinguished Visitor in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. The speech was recorded for broadcast by WSKG Radio, Sept. 29 at 1pm & 7pm.

During his long career in both journalism and public service, Bill Moyers has been recognized as one of the unique voices of his generation. Beginning as a cub reporter for the “Marshall (Texas) News Messenger” at the age of l6, he went on to serve as a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, publisher of “Newsday,” and senior news analyst for the “CBS Evening News.” He spent much of his career working in public television, as a reporter and anchor and, with his wife and creative partner Judith Davidson Moyers, the producer of such path-breaking series as “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” “Healing and the Mind,” and “On Our Own Terms: Death and Dying in America.”

During his 30-plus years in the media, Moyers has received more than 30 Emmy Awards, nine Peabody Awards, and three George Polk Awards, including the Career Achievement Award.

Moyers’s books include the bestsellers “Listening to America,” “The Power of Myth,” “The Language of Life,” and, most recently, “Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times.” He is currently president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are “of, by, and for the people.”

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