Bill Moyers will be retiring from regularly weekly reporting on TV next year. Moyers, 75, received the highest award bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2006 -- it's Lifetime Achievement Emmy. His weekly show on PBS, "Bill Moyers Journal," will end on April 30, 2010.

Early in his career, Moyers worked as press secretary for fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson when Johnson was president. Since then, he has done thousands of hours of TV programming, many of them focusing on various aspects of the humanities, such as his famous interviews with Joseph Campbell about the power of mythology that first ran on PBS, Moyers' home for many years.

During the summer of 2007, Moyers delivered a prophetic speech about the importance of journalism at a conference about education. In the speech, he said, "The job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is almost as complicated as trying to hide it in the first place. One of my mentors told me that 'news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.' "

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