Robert MacNeil
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Monday, March 12, 2007, 6:30 p.m. |
Robert MacNeil—Journalist, Anchorman
Robert MacNeil is Chairman of the Board of The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s first artist residency program, which is celebrating its centennial in 2007. The MacDowell Colony awards fellowships to artists of exceptional talent—providing time, space, and an inspiring environment in which to do creative work.
Born and educated in Canada, Robert MacNeil was a journalist for 40 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters News Agency, NBC News, and the BBC, culminating in 20 years as executive editor of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. He is the author of three novels and three memoirs, The Right Place at the Right Time, Wordstruck, and Looking For My Country. He is co-author of The Story of English and hosted the award-winning BBC-PBS documentary series of the same name. The sequel, Do You Speak American? was broadcast in 2005 when the companion book was published.
Mr. MacNeil is a trustee of the Freedom Forum Newseum—the world’s first museum of journalism, now under construction in Washington, DC—and co-chairman of the Council of Conservators of the New York Public Library. He and his wife Donna live in New York and Nova Scotia.
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