Journalist and former White House press secretary Bill Moyers dies at 91

The passing of a legend: Bill Moyers, a former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson who turned into a longtime broadcast journalist and champion of public media, has died at age 91. His son tells me Moyers died of complications from a long illness.

RIP Bill Moyers, an LBJ confidant who went on to become one of the most esteemed journalists of his era. "In an age of broadcast blowhards," writes Janny Scott, the soft-spoken Baptist minister examined power and money in America, winning 30 Emmys. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/business/media/bill-moyers-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Vale Bill Moyers, one of the very last of the JFK-LBJ generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/business/media/bill-moyers-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare via @NYTimes

Bill Moyers was a guiding light for me. He gave me my first blurb, on a book about growing up in Dallas during the Kennedy assassination. I was a nobody and he was a somebody with a very generous heart. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/business/media/bill-moyers-dead.html