Lawrence K. Grossman

Lawrence K. Grossman has been a prominent figure in broadcast media for many years, including eight years as President and CEO of the Public Broadcast Service (PBS) from 1976-84, and four years as President of NBC News (1984-88). Currently President of PBS Horizons Cable, Grossman has just published The Electronic Republic (1996). A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, Grossman was a Senior Fellow at the Gannett Center of Media Studies at Columbia University (1989-91), and a distinquished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami (1993). Among his many writings are Reflections on Life Along the Electronic Superhighway (1994) and American Television: Beyond the Wasteland (1991).