Harry Gerard "H. G." Bissinger III, also known as Buzz Bissinger, is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights. He is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine and the former host of The Buz...
He is also a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine.
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Is a second cousin of Peter Berg and Mary Berg. Peter directed Friday Night Lights (2004), based on Buzz's book. Buzz's paternal grandmother, Gertrude Louise Winkler, and Peter and Mary's maternal grandfather, Robert Eli Winkler, were siblings. Buzz is thus a second cousin, once removed, of Peter's son, Emmett Berg.
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Awarded Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, 1985-1986.
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Has three sons, H.G. 'Gary' Bissinger IIII, Zachery 'Zack' Stone Bissinger (twins, born in 1985), And Caleb St. John Macdonald Bissinger, (born in 1991).
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Previous newspaper experience includes stints on Norfolk, Virginia's Ledger-Star, 1976-1978, St. Paul's Pioneer Press Dispatch, Minnesota, 1978-1981; investigative reporter at Chicago Tribune, Illinois, and reporter, then editor at the Inquirer, 1981-1988.
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Graduate of University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1976.
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Winner of the National Headliner Award, 1983 and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, for series on the Philadelphia court system he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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His mother, Eleanor Lebenthal Bissinger, is related to the family that founded and runs Wall Street's Lebenthal Fund.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Friday Night Lights
2006-2011
TV Series book - 75 episodes
Friday Night Lights
2004
book "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream" - as H.G. Bissinger
Shattered Glass
2003
article - as H.G. Bissinger
NYPD Blue
TV Series teleplay by - 4 episodes, 2001 story by - 3 episodes, 2001
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
NYPD Blue
2001
TV Series co-producer - 19 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
I Am Cait
2016
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
60 Minutes Sports
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - Author, Friday Night Lights (segment "Friday Night Lights")
Today
2015
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Entertainment Tonight
2015
TV Series
Himself - Vanity Fair Contributing Editor
Good Morning America
2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Imus in the Morning
2014
TV Series
Himself
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
2013-2014
TV Series
Himself
Piers Morgan Tonight
2012-2013
TV Series
Himself
Hardball with Chris Matthews
2013
TV Series
Himself
Face the Nation
2012
TV Series
Himself - Sports Panelist
Tavis Smiley
2012
TV Series
Himself
Reliable Sources
2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
'Friday Night Lights': The Story of the 1988 Permian Panthers
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