<P> Talbot has written and produced ten documentaries for the critically acclaimed PBS series, Frontline . He has worked with correspondents Robert Krulwich, Peter Boyer, Bill Moyers and Lowell Bergman, and he has also appeared as a correspondent in "Why America Hates the Press" and "Diet Wars". </P> <P> In 2007 he produced, "What's Happening to the News" a 90 - minute episode of the Frontline "News War" series . His other Frontline news documentaries include "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy", "The Heartbeat of America" (an investigation of General Motors), "Public Lands, Private Profits" (about gold mining on federal land in the West), "Rush Limbaugh's America", "The Long March of Newt Gingrich", "Why America Hates the Press", "Spying on Saddam", "Justice for Sale" with Bill Moyers, and "The Battle Over School Choice". </P> <P> His "investigative biography" of Newt Gingrich--"The Long March of Newt Gingrich" (1995) with correspondent Peter Boyer--drew renewed interest and was posted with updates on the Frontline website in 2012 when Gingrich made his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination . </P> <P> From 2002--2008, Talbot was the series editor and a senior producer for Frontline / World, the international TV news magazine program and website . With reporter Kate Seelye, he also produced a half - hour FRONTLINE / World story, "The Earthquake", about political turmoil in Lebanon and Syria . He was senior producer of the Emmy - winning FRONTLINE / World documentary by Gwynne Roberts, "Iraq: Saddam's Road to Hell," an investigation of a massacre of Kurds carried out by Saddam Hussein's regime . </P>

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