About Jim Lehrer
James Charles Lehrer was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS News Hour on PBS and was known for his role as a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns, moderating 12 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. Lehrer also wrote numerous fiction and non-fiction books that drew upon his experience as a newsman, along with his interests in history and politics. In 2004, Lehrer was awarded an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree by McDaniel College. The last debate that Lehrer moderated was the first general election debate of the 2012 election. Lehrer was a political columnist there for several years, and he became the city editor in 1968. In October 1975, Lehrer became the Washington correspondent for The Robert MacNeil Report on Thirteen/WNET New York.
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