John Siceloff
Date of Birth
John Siceloff was a journalist and reporter for the program PBS NewsHour, originally titled The Robert MacNeil Report. He was also the co-creator of PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers.
After graduating from Stanford with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism, Siceloff began freelance reporting for PBS NewsHour and BBC-TV before working as a bureau chief for both CBS News in El Salvador and NBC News in Nicaragua.
In 2002 Siceloff created Now with Bill Moyers, a weekly PBS series that focused on current affairs, which he continued to executive produce after Moyers departed in 2004. In 2008 he co-authored the book Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes, about civic activism on a local and national scale, featuring 12 stories of ordinary citizens accomplishing extraordinary goals.
Siceloff was nominated for seven news and business Emmy Awards and won two — one in 2004 for best report in a news magazine, and another in 2007 for outstanding coverage of a current business news story. He also earned a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and served as CEO of JumpStart Global Media.
John Siceloff was a journalist and reporter for the program PBS NewsHour, originally titled The Robert MacNeil Report. He was also the co-creator of PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers.
After graduating from Stanford with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism, Siceloff began freelance reporting for PBS NewsHour and BBC-TV before working as a bureau chief for both CBS News in El Salvador and NBC News in Nicaragua.
In 2002 Siceloff created Now with Bill Moyers, a weekly PBS series that focused on current affairs, which he continued to executive produce after Moyers departed in 2004. In 2008 he co-authored the book Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes, about civic activism on a local and national scale, featuring 12 stories of ordinary citizens accomplishing extraordinary goals.
Siceloff was nominated for seven news and business Emmy Awards and won two — one in 2004 for best report in a news magazine, and another in 2007 for outstanding coverage of a current business news story. He also earned a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and served as CEO of JumpStart Global Media.
Siceloff died March 6, 2015, in Dutchess County, New York. He was 61.
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