Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died on Thursday at the age of 91. Moyers passed away in a New York City hospital, as confirmed by his longtime friend Tom Johnson, a former CNN CEO and former assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. Moyers’ son William reported that his father died at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York after a long illness.
Moyers had a multifaceted career that ranged from his early days as a Baptist minister and deputy director of the Peace Corps to his roles as a journalist, newspaper publisher, senior news analyst for