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| FRONTLINE/World: Stephen Talbot Biography |
Stephen Talbot
Series Editor, FRONTLINE/World
In a career of more than 20 years in public television, Stephen Talbot has produced, written and directed over 30 documentaries, including investigative stories, biographies, history specials and foreign reports. For the past decade, he has been a frequent contributor to the critically acclaimed PBS series, FRONTLINE, writing and producing nine documentaries, including "Justice for Sale" with Bill Moyers (1999), "Spying on Saddam" (1999) and "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy" (1992), which won a duPont Award from Columbia University.
Talbot's other FRONTLINE documentaries—co-produced with the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco—include "The Battle Over School Choice" (2000), "Why America Hates the Press" (1996), "The Long March of Newt Gingrich" (1996), "Rush Limbaugh's America" (1995), "Public Lands, Private Profits" (1994) and "The Heartbeat of America" (1993), about the travails of General Motors.
During his tenure at KQED in the 1980s, Talbot produced several documentaries about foreign affairs, including The Gospel and Guatemala(1984) with Elizabeth Farnsworth; Namibia: Behind the Lines(1981); Saigon, U.S.A. (1983); Getting Away with Murder (1985); and South Africa Under Siege (1986). Talbot also reported and produced dozens of feature stories for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
Talbot began his public television career as a staff reporter and producer at KQED Public Television in San Francisco, where he won two Peabody Awards for his national PBS documentaries Broken Arrow (1980) and The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982). His production company, Talbot Productions, recently produced a one-hour documentary about Oakland mayor Jerry Brown entitled "The Celebrity and the City" (2001) for KQED's Bay Window series. He has also written and co-produced several PBS and KQED biographies of writers, including Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Talbot has a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He is married and has two children. Talbot has lived in San Francisco for more than 25 years.
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