Leadership Breakfast: Bill Nigut

On Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 7:15 AM, please join us at the Buckhead Club for a Leadership Breakfast Series “special election preview” event featuring Bill Nigut, Political Commentator, WABE & AJC.

Bill Nigut is co-host of Politically Georgia, an innovative collaboration between the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WABE (Georgia’s flagship PBS and NPR station) airing five times per week.  Nigut has been an icon in local broadcasting for decades, a familiar face and voice to Georgians for his political coverage. For 20 years, he served as the national and state political reporter for WSB-TV, the Atlanta ABC affiliate, where he covered five presidential campaigns, the White House and Capitol Hill, as well as Georgia politics.

In 2004, Nigut left WSB to become the CEO of Metro Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition, before taking the Southeast Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) role in 2007. He received the Georgia Commission on The Holocaust Humanitarian Award in 2013, given to those who have “demonstrated the spirit of humanity through volunteer work, advocacy, leadership and/or philanthropy.”

For over nine years, Nigut hosted GPB’s “Political Rewind,” a program he created that regularly featured guests discussing state and national political stories. He also hosted a second GPB show, “Two Way Street,” a long-form conversation program with artists, authors, chefs, and scientists, among others. In 2021 he was inducted into the Georgia Association of Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame for “career achievement and the lasting impact on Georgia’s broadcasting industry.”

Nigut grew up in Chicago, where he developed his love of rough-and-tumble politics, the Chicago Bears and the Bulls.