Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer stepped down from "PBS NewsHour" in June 2011 after 36 years as its anchor. Lehrer began his journalism career in print, working as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald in the late 1950s through the 1960s. From there he moved to Dallas public television, serving as KERA-TV's public affairs executive director and on-air host of a nightly news program. This led him to PBS's headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he worked in public affairs and as a fellow at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1973, while working as a correspondent for the National Public Affairs Center for Television, Lehrer and Robert MacNeil led NPACT's live coverage of the Watergate hearings; their PBS broadcast won an Emmy. Lehrer went on to serve as Washington correspondent for "Robert MacNeil Report," and in 1983 the two men launched "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." MacNeil left the show in 1995, and Lehrer continued as its sole anchor. By 2009 the program had become PBS's flagship news offering and was renamed "PBS NewsHour." In addition to his award-winning reporting and news anchoring, Lehrer has written 20 novels, three plays and two memoirs. His book "Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain" (2011) is an insider account of his unique role in almost a dozen presidential debates (Lehrer has been dubbed "the Dean of Moderators"). A native of Witchita, Kansas, Lehrer and his wife Kate have three children.
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