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In a career of more than 25 years in public television in the USA, Stephen Talbot has reported, written and produced more than thirty documentaries, including two Peabody Award winners, "Broken Arrow" (1980) an investigation of nuclear weapons accidents, and The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982) (TV), a biography of the mystery writer, which also won an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Long associated with the critically-acclaimed PBS series, "Frontline" (1983), Talbot has produced and written ten Frontline documentaries, including "News War: What`s Happening to the News" (2007) with reporter Lowell Bergman, "The Battle Over School Choice" (2000), "Justice for Sale" (1999) with Bill Moyers, "Spying on Saddam" (1999), "The Long March of Newt Gingrich" (1996), "Rush Limbaugh`s America" (1995), "The Heartbeat of America" (1993) about the travails of General Motors, and "The Best Campaign Money Can Buy" (1992) which won a duPont award from Columbia University. Talbot was also the correspondent for Frontline`s "Diet Wars" (2004). Since 2002, he has been the Series Editor for "Frontline World," the international news magazine show and web site, for which he produced "The Earthquake" (2005) about Lebanon and Syria.

With David Davis, Talbot wrote and directed "The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation," a two-hour history special that aired nationally on PBS in 2005. Talbot has also written and co-produced several biographies of noted writers, including Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Beryl Markham, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos.