Llewellyn King

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Location

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Birthday

October 06

Title

Executive Producer and Host

Company

White House Chronicle TV

Bio

Llewellyn King is the creator, executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” a weekly news and public affairs program, airing nationwide on more than 200 PBS and public, education and government access stations, and worldwide on Voice of America Television. Now in its 15th year on the air, the program can also be viewed on the Web at whchronicle.com. An audio version of the program airs on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS Channel 124. In addition, King writes a weekly column for the Hearst-New York Times Syndicate. In 2006 University Press of America published a collection of his columns, entitled “Washington and The World 2001-2005,” which mainly appeared in Knight-Ridder newspapers, including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer and The Columbus Dispatch. King was the founding editor in chief and publisher of The Energy Daily. The iconic energy industry newsletter, created before the energy crisis broke out in 1973, was the flagship of his King Publishing Group, whose other award-winning titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week, Navy News & Undersea Technology and White House Weekly. King's insightful reporting and analysis of energy led to frequent guest spots on television news shows, including “Meet the Press” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” King's remarkable career in journalism began in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where he was hired at age 16 as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine. He also reported from Africa for London's Daily Express and News Chronicle and United Press. Moving to London in 1959, King worked as an executive for The Daily Mirror Group, a reporter for Associated Newspapers, and a news writer for BBC and ITN. After moving to the United States, King worked as an editor and reporter for many top newspapers, including The New York Herald Tribune, The Baltimore News-American, The Washington Daily News and The Washington Post. While working at The Washington Post, he headed the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. A stint at McGraw-Hill's Nucleonics Week led to his founding The Energy Daily. But The Energy Daily was not King's first ahead-of-its-time publication. His first was Women Now, a monthly magazine targeted to emerging professional women in the 1960s. “It didn’t liberate any women, but it liberated all my money,” King says. Before creating “White House Chronicle,” King hosted “The Bull and The Bear,” a daily stock market program that aired on the GoodLife and Jones cable television networks in the mid-1990s. King has given more than 2,000 speeches. He continues to be an in-demand and erudite commentator on energy, foreign affairs, Congress, the White House, small business, and science and technology. He has organized more than 1,000 conferences on issues ranging from nuclear energy to land mine removal to Social Security to campaign finance.