- Bill Moyers
Bill D. Moyers (born June 5, 1934 as Billy Don Moyers) is an American journalist and public commentator. Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas, Moyers began his journalism career at age 16 as a cub reporter at the "Marshall News Messenger" in Marshall, Texas. He and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, have three grown children and five grandchildren. - Jim Lehrer
James Charles Lehrer (pronounced) (born May 19, 1934) is an American journalist. He is the news anchor for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Lehrer is also an acclaimed author, writing both non-fiction and fiction which draws on his life experiences and his interests in history and politics. - Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (b. January 5, 1942 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American television interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for "60 Minutes II", he currently hosts the interview show "Charlie Rose" for PBS. - Scott Gurvey
Scott Gurvey is the New York Bureau Chief of the PBS program Nightly Business Report. Born in Chicago, Illinois, son of Roy Gurvey (former Chairman and CEO of Dad's Root Beer). - Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill (born September 29, 1955) is a journalist for PBS. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has also received 15 honorary degrees. She serves on the board of the Harvard Institute of Politics, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Museum of Television and Radio and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She earlier worked for the "Boston Herald", the "Baltimore Sun", … - Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. - Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", … - Alex Jones
Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2000. Jones is also a lecturer at the school, occupying the Laurence M. Lombard Chair in the Press and Public Policy. Jones wrote about the press for "The New York Times" from 1983 until 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. - Judy Woodruff
JUDY WOODRUFF , CNN ANCHOR: Welcome. Whether it wants to or not, the Bush administration is being forced by events to take a more active role in the Middle East. It has now become alarmingly clear that unless it's stopped, the violence between Israel and the Palestinians could spread, violence that Secretary of State Colin Powell is already labeling as unbearable. - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Steven Raichlen
Steven David Raichlen is an American barbecue chef, author and TV host. He is the author of twenty-five books, mainly centering around barbecue techniques and receipes. His first book, "Miami Spice: The New Florida Cuisine" was published in 1993. "The Barbecue Bible" (1998) was Raichlen's description of the fours years he spent on the road studying grilling around the world. In 2003 his show, "Barbecue University with Steven Raichlen", debuted on PBS. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a journalist, blogger and writer. New York Times Magazine christened Marshall "a star" of the blogosphere as the "author of one of the most popular and most respected [blogging] sites." He is also a columnist for "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper. Marshall's work has been the subject of stories by the LA Times, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. - Ray Suarez
Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), better known as Ray Suarez, is a senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", an evening news program on the PBS television network. He came to the program from National Public Radio, where he had hosted "Talk of the Nation" since 1993. Suarez joined "The NewsHour" in 1999. He is also a host of "America Abroad" radio programs. - Fred Rogers
Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. - Mark Shields
Mark Shields (born May 25, 1937 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American political pundit who appears frequently on CNN and PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" as a liberal commentator. Shields graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1959. He served in the United States Marine Corps before beginning his career in Washington, D.C., in 1964. In fact, he has had two distinct careers over the last 40 years. The first career for Shields was as a Washington insider. - David Brancaccio
David Brancaccio , host of California Connected, is well known to radio audiences as the host and senior editor of Minnesota Public Radio's Marketplace, the daily magazine of business and economics that airs nationally on public radio stations. Brancaccio served as London bureau chief for the program before being promoted to his current position in September 1993. - Juan Williams
Juan Williams, National Public Radio's Senior Correspondent, is an Emmy Award–winning writer, and radio and television correspondent, who has written for "The Washington Post" and has appeared on National Public Radio, Fox News, and PBS. He was born in April 1954 in Colón, Panama, which is near the Panama Canal Zone (United States territory at the time). His father was a boxing trainer. Williams was raised in the Episcopal branch of the Anglican church, … - Margaret Warner
Margaret Warner is a senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer". Before joining the News Hour in 1993, she was a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal", "The San Diego Union-Tribune", the "Concord Monitor", and "Newsweek". In addition, Warner has appeared on PBS' "Washington Week In Review", CNN's "The Capital Gang" and is a co-host of the radio program "America Abroad", … - Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace is an American historian. He is currently the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is also Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where he has taught since 1971. Wallace received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for History, along with co-author Edwin G. Burrows, for "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898". - Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless (born 1953) is an American chef who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is, perhaps, best known for his PBS series "Mexico: One Plate at a Time" and the Food Network series "Iron Chef America". Bayless was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, into a family of restaurateurs specializing in the local barbecue. Having begun his culinary training as a youth, … - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger. - Burt Wolf
Burt Wolf is an American journalist, writer and TV producer. He is the host of the PBS series "Travels and Traditions" He has written or edited more than 60 books, authored a weekly column for The Washington Post, and is was columnist at Salon.com. - Wayne Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book "Your Erroneous Zones" has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses". - Ric Burns
Eric D. Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for nearly 20 years, since his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series "The Civil War", (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken Burns, and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several programs for WGBH Boston's American Experience, including "Coney Island" (1991). - Katie Brown
Katie Brown is an American home and gardening television show host. Her series have included "Next Door" on Lifetime Television, "Katie Brown" on Style Network, and most recently, "All Year Round" on A&E. She also hosts Katie Brown @ Home on the Video On Demand network Mag Rack. A new show, "The Katie Brown Workshop", began airing on PBS in Spring 2006. Katie Brown also has numerous books out on the subjects of cooking, gardening, … - Levar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957, in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an African-American actor, director and author who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries "Roots", based on the novel by Alex Haley. - Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the "Los Angeles Times" and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' "NOW with Bill Moyers". - Daisy Martinez
Daisy Maria Martinez is a television personality and author, who currently hosts a new PBS television series "Daisy Cooks" launched on April 15, 2005. - John Merrow
John Merrow is a broadcast journalist who has reported on education issues for more than three decades. He is the executive producer, host and president of Learning Matters, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that creates television, radio and online segments and documentaries, focusing primarily on education. Listen Up!, a project Merrow created in 1998, trains disadvantaged youth and their teachers in broadcast production skills and techniques. - Anil Dash
Anil Dash (pronounced, born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999. Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the "Village Voice", Dash was the first employee of, and now works as a Vice President for, Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and owners of LiveJournal. In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series "Media Matters". - Michael Gordon
Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for "The New York Times". He and General Bernard E. Trainor have written two books together: "The Generals' War", which covers the 1991 Gulf War, and the bestseller "Cobra II", which covers the Iraq War begun 2003. He wrote most of the coverage of the administration's case for war in 2002. During the first phase of the Iraq war, … - Andreas Viestad
Andreas Viestad, also known as "The Charming Ambassador", is a Norwegian food writer and television chef. He has homes in Oslo, Norway and Cape Town, South Africa. Viestad authored "Kitchen of Light: New Scandinavian Cooking" and has been dubbed "Norway’s Culinary Ambassador". Viestad’s weekly column for the Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" since 1999 and his cooking show on the USA's PBS channel, in which he speaks in accented but very good English, … - Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, "The Joy Luck Club", became a commercially successful film. She has written several other books, including "The Kitchen God's Wife", "The Hundred Secret Senses", and "The Bonesetter's Daughter", … - John Shields
John Shields is an American chef, food writer, and host of the PBS television show Coastal Cooking with John Shields. Shields is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. After time spent elsewhere, he has returned to Baltimore, where he owns and operates Gertrude's Restaurant, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Shields is an expert in regional American coastal cuisine, and in particular the cuisine of his native Chesapeake Bay region. - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault , former NPR correspondent and author, delivered a public lecture as a Halle Distinguished Fellow, in February on her new book, New News Out of Africa . After the lecture, Hunter-Gault signed copies of her book. Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been a journalist for more than 40 years, in various forms of media, including National Public Radio, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and various newspapers. - Louis Rukeyser
Louis Richard Rukeyser (January 30 1933 - May 2 2006) was a U.S. business columnist, economic commentator, and television personality. He was best known for his role as host of two television series, "Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser", and Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street. He also published two financial newsletters, "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street" and "Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds". - Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 115 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997. - Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith was the author of a dozen best-selling cookbooks and the host of "The Frugal Gourmet", a popular American cooking show which began in Tacoma, Washington and aired on PBS from 1988 to 1997. - John Harwood
John Harwood is an American journalist who is currently the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a Senior Contributing Writer for The Wall Street Journal. A 1978 "magna cum laude" graduate of Duke University, Harwood has also served as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He frequently appears on "Washington Week", a public affairs program on PBS hosted by Gwen Ifill.
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