Llewellyn King
Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” a weekly news and public affairs program, airing nationwide on PBS and public, educational and government cable access channels, and SiriusXM Radio’s P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States), Channel 124. He created the program in 1997.
King has been writing a weekly column for decades. In 2006, University Press of America published a collection of his columns in a volume titled “Washington and The World 2001-2005.”
He was the founder, editor in chief and publisher of The Energy Daily. The Washington-based newsletter was the flagship of his award-winning King Publishing Group, which he sold in 2006. The group's other titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week and Navy News & Undersea Technology.
King’s insightful reporting and analysis of the energy industry led to his being an author of a plan on which President Richard Nixon based his national energy policy in 1974. It also led to frequent guest spots on network news programs, including NBC's “Meet the Press,” PBS's “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN and C-SPAN.
Over the years, King has given hundreds of keynote speeches on energy and innovation to major corporations and U.S. and international organizations. His recent speeches have been on artificial intelligence.
King has lectured at colleges and universities across the country, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown and Penn State. Los Alamos National Laboratory invited him to lecture an elite group of scientists, known as The Mod Squad.
His remarkable career in journalism began in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he was hired at age 16 as a foreign correspondent for Time. He also reported from Africa for London's Daily Express and News Chronicle, and United Press.
Moving to London in 1959, King worked as an executive for The Daily Mirror Group, a reporter for Associated Newspapers, and a news writer for BBC and ITN.
Relocating to the United States in the 1960s, King worked as an editor and reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, the Baltimore News-American, the Washington Daily News and The Washington Post. He was on the board of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for four years and became its president in 1969.
In 1974 King founded The Energy Daily, before the energy crisis broke out. But it wasn’t his first trailblazing publication: In the 1960s he founded Women Now, a monthly magazine targeted to emerging professional women. King quips, “Women Now didn’t liberate any women, but it liberated all my money.”
Before creating “White House Chronicle,” King and his wife, journalist Linda Gasparello, co-hosted “The Bull and The Bear,” a daily stock market program which aired on the GoodLife and Jones Intercable cable television systems in the mid-1990s.
In 2011, he created ME/CFS Alert, a YouTube channel on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He and the late Deborah Waroff, his co-host on the channel and inspiration for it, intended for their video interviews of patients, physicians, medical researchers, advocates and caregivers “to comfort the sick, educate the doctors, and spur the government to do more research” on this mysterious and life-robbing disease.
For his longtime contribution to the understanding of science and technology, King was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering from The Stevens Institute of Technology in 1995. In 2014, the United States Energy Association presented him with its United States Energy Award in 2014 -- the only journalist to have received this award -- and its Centennial Appreciation Award in 2024. He has received numerous awards from other energy groups.
King has been a member of The National Press Club since 1966. In 2024, he received a lifetime achievement award from the club.He is also a member of the Association of European Journalists.
