Bill Moyers, the longtime, highly respected broadcast journalist and former White House press secretary, has died. Moyers, 91, a former resident of New Jersey, died Thursday. His son William Cope Moyers told The Washington Post he died in New York from complications of prostate cancer.

He was a renowned television correspondent and commentator with long ties with Lyndon B. Johnson, including as his press secretary.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.Moyers died in a New York City hospital,