# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-spivak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:42:51.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-spivak"
name: "Lawrence Spivak"
slug: "lawrence-spivak"
description: "Lawrence Edmund Spivak was an American publisher and journalist who was best known as the co-founder, producer and host of the prestigious public affairs program Meet the Press. He and journalist Martha Rountree founded the program as promotion for Spivak's magazine, The American Mercury, and it became the longest-running continuous network series in television history. During his 28 years as panelist and moderator of Meet the Press, Spivak was known for his pointed questioning of policy makers."
tagline: "American journalist and Meet the Press host (1900-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lawrence_Spivak_1960.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1900-06-11"
deathDate: "1994-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.16
  momentum:             4.588859416445623
  historical:           5.486466666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819211/"
    handle:    "nm0819211"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Spivak"
    title: "Lawrence Spivak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "لورنس سبيفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "لورانس سبيفاك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_E._Spivak"
    title: "Lawrence E. Spivak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_E._Spivak"
    title: "Lawrence E. Spivak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74110"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236938"
    title: "Lawrence E. Spivak"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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