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ABC News Correspondent, New York
Robert Krulwich is a New York-based correspondent who appears regularly on "Nightline." He also reports for "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings," and "Good Morning America." With Ted Koppel, he co-hosted an eight-part primetime series "Brave New World," which probed the "eight biggest questions facing humankind"; with Peter Jennings, he produced an animated history of Bosnia for a children's special; and with Barbara Walters, he explored possible cures for cancer.
Mr. Krulwich has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide, "the man who makes the dismal science swing" by the Washington Journalism Review, and "the man who simplifies without being simple" by New York Magazine. His specialty is explaining complex news -- economics, technology, science -- in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining.
He has regularly contributed to the PBS investigative series "Frontline," where he won a duPont Award from Columbia University for his coverage of campaign finance in the 1992 presidential campaign. He has also won a national Emmy Award for his investigation of privacy on the internet, "High Stakes in Cyberspace." In 2001 he won the National Association for the Advancement of Science Television Award for a two hour NOVA Special on the Human Genome Project. His ABC special on Barbie, a cultural history of the world-famous doll, also won a national Emmy.
Mr. Krulwich has anchored a cultural affairs series on PBS (and a simultaneous series on the BBC) entitled"The Edge," which GQ Magazine called "cocky, fearless and brazenly sophisticated." He has also hosted "Live at Lincoln Center" and appeared on Jay Leno's premiere "Tonight Show" broadcast.
Before joining ABC in 1994, Mr. Krulwich appeared regularly on "CBS This Morning," "48 Hours" and CBS' "Nightwatch" with Charlie Rose. During the Gulf War he co-anchored the CBS program "America Tonight." From 1978 to 1985 he was business and economics correspondent for National Public Radio. Mr. Krulwich still contributes to NPR and, once a year, with three friends -- Jane Curtin, Buck Henry and Tony Hendra -- he hosts a semi-fictional year-in-review entitled "Backfire." In 1995 the group performed at the White House at the invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Krulwich 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 and PBS's special award for Programming Excellence. TV Guide named him to its "All Star" reporting team, and Esquire placed him in its Esquire Registry in 1989. In 1974, he covered the Watergate hearings for Pacifica Radio and, in 1976, he was Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Mr. Krulwich received a Bachelor's degree in U.S. history from Oberlin
College in 1969, and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School in 1974.
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.