Covering Power and Performance: Reflections from a Life in Political Journalism

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Bill Nigut covered Georgia and national politics for WSB-TV for 20 years, traveling across the country to report on presidential primary elections, national conventions, debates and conducting one-on-one interviews with presidential candidates over five presidential election cycles from 1984 to 2000. He frequently reported from the White House and Capitol Hill as news took him to Washington, including covering the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas, Newt Gingrich's election as speaker of the house, the Clinton impeachment trial and more. In addition he covered 18 sessions of the Georgia General Assembly.

Bill subsequently spent more than nine years as the executive producer and host of "Political Rewind," a daily political discussion program on Georgia Public Broadcasting state NPR network. In his final stop as a political journalist, Bill served as a host of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's political discussion program "Politically Georgia," which aired on Atlanta public radio station WABE. He was inducted into the Georgia Association of Broadcasting's Hall of Fame in 2021, and in 2019 was an inductee into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Silver Circle for "outstanding contributions to the television community" in the southeast.