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Longtime Public Affairs Television Producer Looks Back on Time Working With Bill Moyers

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Gail Pellett, third from right, with Bill Moyers, far right, at an event in 1999 in which Public Affairs Television won the Gold Baton - broadcast journalism's equivalent to a Pulitzer Prize, as Pellett described it - for producing

Gail Pellett, third from right, with Bill Moyers, far right, at an event in 1999 in which Public Affairs Television won the Gold Baton - broadcast journalism's equivalent to a Pulitzer Prize, as Pellett described it - for producing "Facing the Truth," a documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. COURTESY GAIL PELLETT

authorJack Motz on Jul 9, 2025
Producer Gail Pellett was working for Public Affairs Television in 1996 when she came across an article in another publication about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. No... more

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