# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-lehrer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:07:35.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-lehrer"
name: "Jim Lehrer"
slug: "jim-lehrer"
description: "James Charles Lehrer was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS News Hour on PBS and was known for his role as a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns, moderating 12 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. Lehrer also wrote numerous fiction and non-fiction books that drew upon his experience as a newsman, along with his interests in history and politics."
tagline: "American writer (1934-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_lehrer_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-05-19"
deathDate: "2020-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.77
  momentum:             0.6514994829369184
  historical:           12.57790666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499871/"
    handle:    "nm0499871"
sources:
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    title: "جيم لهرر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer"
    title: "Jim Lehrer"
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    title: "جیم لهرر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Lehrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջիմ Լեհրեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジム・レーラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Lehrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Лерер, Джим"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer"
    title: "Jim Lehrer"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer"
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    title: "Jim Lehrer"
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    title: "吉姆·萊勒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump