Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich is a respected television journalist whose specialty is explaining complex topics in depth. He has done pieces for ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, PBS's Frontline, NOVA, and NOW with Bill Moyers. He has previously worked for CBS, NPR, and Pacifica. TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television" and New York Magazine said he's "the man who simplifies without being simple".
Background
Krulwich received his bachelor's in U.S. history from Oberlin College in 1969, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1974. Just two months later, he quit to cover the Watergate hearings for Pacifica Radio. In 1976, he became Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone.
From 1978 to 1985, he was business and economics correspondent for NPR. Among other things, he recorded an opera called "Rato Interesso" to explain interest rates. He went on to host the PBS arts series The Edge.
In 1984, he joined CBS and appeared regularly on This Morning, 48 Hours, and Nightwatch with Charlie Rose. During the Gulf War, he co-anchored the CBS program, America Tonight.
TV Guide named Krulwich to its All Star reporting team. Esquire placed him in its Esquire Registry in 1989.
In 1994, he joined ABC.
He continues to host a semi-fictional year-in-review called Backfire for NPR. In 1995, the group performed at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton.
Krulwich's career reached a high point in 1999 with his eight-part primetime series Brave New World which tackled the major scientific issues of our time (and frequently featured his friends They Might Be Giants as musical guests).
He is also a regular correspondent on the PBS investigative series, Frontline, where he won a duPont Award from Columbia University for his coverage of campaign finance in the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign, a national Emmy Award for his investigation of privacy on the Internet, High Stakes in Cyberspace; and a George Polk Award for an hour on the savings and loan scandal. His ABC special on Barbie also won an Emmy.
He has received numerous awards for his reporting, including the Extraordinary Communicator Award from National Cancer Institute in 2000, four consecutive Gainsbrugh Awards from the Economics Broadcasting Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Television Award in 2001 for a NOVA special on the human genome. He also won the 2001 AAAS Science Journalism Award for his NOVA special, Cracking the Code of Life.
He lives in New York City with his wife, Tamar Lewin, a national reporter for the New York Times. They have two children, Jesse and Nora Ann.