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Llewellyn King (born October 6, 1939 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) is a British-American journalist, publisher and television producer. He has a print history that reaches back to Africa in the late 1950s, where he worked for the legendary Africa correspondent Eric Robins, and a broadcasting pedigree that began at ITN, then the BBC, in the early 1960s.

Career
King created the PBS television program White House Chronicle in 1997. He is the program’s executive producer and host. White House Chronicle airs nationwide on 200 PBS and public, educational and government cable access stations, and the commercial AMGTV network. It airs worldwide on Voice of America Television and Radio. He was the host of The Bull & The Bear, a daily stock market program, which ran on the GoodLife and the Jones Intercable cable television networks in the mid-1990s.

He is a regular commentator on SiriusXM Radio’s P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States), Channel 124. White House Chronicle also airs on that channel.

He is a nationally syndicated columnist with InsideSources. Previously, his column was distributed by the Hearst-New York Times Syndicate and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. University Press of America published a collection of his columns in 2006, entitled Washington and the World 2001-2005. He contributed to The Huffington Post.

King has worked for the Daily Mirror Group in London, The New York Herald Tribune, The Baltimore News-American, The Washington Daily News, and was an assistant editor at The Washington Post. He created Women Now, a monthly magazine targeted to emerging professional women in the 1960s, in New York.

In 1973, shortly before the energy crisis broke out, he created The Energy Daily. Later he created Defense Week, New Technology Week, Navy News & Undersea Technology and other industry papers. They were published by King Publishing Group in Washington, D.C. for 33 years.

White House Chronicle
King has given thousands of speeches; the late James R. Schlesinger called him an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker. He has lectured at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.

In 1995, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology for his work in promoting science and technology. The United States Energy Association presented him with the United States Energy Award in 2014.

King was the president of the Baltimore-Washington Newspaper Guild in 1969. He has been a member of the National Press Club since 1966.

Charity Work
In 2011 King created ME/CFS Alert, a YouTube channel to help victims of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). He intends his video interviews of patients, doctors and medical researchers, and activists “to comfort the sick, to inform doctors, and to shame the government to do more research” on this baffling disease.

Personal Life
He is married to Linda Gasparello, a journalist with whom he has co-hosted The Bull & The Bear and White House Chronicle.

He has visited 110 countries and enjoyed motor boating, riding horses and flying light aircraft.

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