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The Alliance for Better Campaigns was launched in January 1998 with grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Its honorary co-chairmen are Walter Cronkite and former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Taylor was a newspaper reporter for 25 years, the last 14 at The Washington Post, where he covered national politics and social issues. From 1992-1995, he served as the Post s bureau chief in South Africa and reported on the historic transformation from apartheid to democracy. He left the Post in January 1996 to found the Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition, a public interest group also supported by a Pew Grant.