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Jim Lehrer, Host of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Moderated by:
Fred Andrle, Host of WOSU's Open Line
In addition to brief remarks, Lehrer will respond to questions from the audience and autograph copies of his most recent book, The Phony Marine, following lunch. WOSU Radio's Fred Andrle will serve as moderator.
Jim Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He is a graduate of Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri. After three years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, he worked for ten years in Dallas as a newspaperman and then as the host of a local experimental news program on public television.
He came to Washington with PBS in 1972, teaming with Robert MacNeil in 1973 to cover the Senate Watergate hearings. They began in 1975 what became The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and, in 1983, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the first 60-minute evening news program on television. When MacNeil retired in 1995, the program was renamed.
Lehrer has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including a presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999. In the last five presidential elections, he moderated ten of the nationally televised candidate debates. He is so respected in this role that he has been called the "dean of moderators."
Moderated by:
Fred Andrle, Host of WOSU's Open Line
In addition to brief remarks, Lehrer will respond to questions from the audience and autograph copies of his most recent book, The Phony Marine, following lunch. WOSU Radio's Fred Andrle will serve as moderator.
Jim Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He is a graduate of Victoria College in Texas and the University of Missouri. After three years as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, he worked for ten years in Dallas as a newspaperman and then as the host of a local experimental news program on public television.
He came to Washington with PBS in 1972, teaming with Robert MacNeil in 1973 to cover the Senate Watergate hearings. They began in 1975 what became The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and, in 1983, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the first 60-minute evening news program on television. When MacNeil retired in 1995, the program was renamed.
Lehrer has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including a presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999. In the last five presidential elections, he moderated ten of the nationally televised candidate debates. He is so respected in this role that he has been called the "dean of moderators."
March 14, 2007