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About William @WmBrangham

William Brangham is an award-winning correspondent, producer, and substitute anchor for the PBS News Hour.

Brangham was part of the News Hour team that won a 2022 Peabody Award for its coverage of guns and gun violence in America. His reporting that year culminated in the NewsHour documentary, “Ricochet: An American Trauma.”

Over the years, Brangham has also reported extensively on the climate crisis, covering the complexity and severity of the issue at everything from U.N. climate conferences to the glaciers of Antarctica. Brangham’s climate reporting has helped establish the News Hour as the clear leader in broadcast news. Among his many stories, his four-part series from Antarctica was nominated for a 2020 News & Documentary Emmy, and became the basis for the News Hour’s first ever podcast series, “The Last Continent.”

Brangham has also done considerable reporting on health, healthcare, and pandemics. In addition to playing a central role in the News Hour’s Covid-19 coverage, his multi-part series about the fight against influenza won the 2020 News & Documentary Emmy Award for “Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report.” His five-part series looking at why America has failed to achieve universal health care (when so many other nations have) was turned into another News Hour documentary: “Critical Care: America vs The World.”

In 2018, Brangham and the News Hour team produced an investigative series about sexual assault, rape, and retaliation within the U.S. Forest Service. The day after that series aired, the head of the Forest Service suddenly stepped down. This reporting won a 2019 News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast,” won a Webby Award, was nominated for a Peabody, and won the 2018 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award.

In 2017, Brangham and his colleagues won another News & Documentary Emmy Award for their series "The End of AIDS?," which looked at the state of the global campaign against HIV. That series also received several other awards, including the National Academies of Sciences Communication Award.

Brangham’s reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015, where he followed Syrian families trying to cross from Hungary into Austria, was among the work cited when the News Hour won a Peabody that year for its ongoing series “Desperate Journey.”

When he is not out reporting in the field, Brangham is a regular interviewer on the News Hour, and is the substitute anchor for the program.

During his career, Brangham has also worked on video and television projects for The New York Times, ABC News, National Geographic and Frontline. Prior to joining the NewsHour, he was a producer and correspondent for Need to Know on PBS, and before that, on Bill Moyers Journal. Brangham worked on multiple Moyers' documentary series in the 1990s, and was a producer on the critically acclaimed magazine series Now with Bill Moyers in the early 2000s.

In 2014, he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Brangham and his wife live in Washington D.C. and have three children.

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William’s Recent Stories

Nation Oct 24

What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month. But even before the shutdown, experts were sounding the alarm after President Trump fired the head of…

Nation Oct 23

Arrests of current and former stars raise troubling gambling questions for NBA

There are troubling questions for the NBA after the FBI arrested one of its players and a Hall of Fame head coach. They are among dozens charged in a federal investigation alleging illegal sports betting and rigged poker games organized…

Nation Oct 22

AI content supercharges confusion and spreads misleading information, critics warn

In the last few years, video and other content created with artificial intelligence have begun to flood almost every part of the internet. It has appeared everywhere from Spotify to the Kindle Store. But on social media, it is almost…

Politics Oct 21

A look at the New Jersey governor’s race and its national implications

New Jersey is one of only two off-year gubernatorial races this fall, and it’s seen as a bellwether ahead of next year's midterms. After President Trump made inroads with minority voters in the last election, they’ve continued to be a…

World Oct 19

Scientists study rare bloom in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally gets just 2 millimeters of rain every year. But this July and August, a rare alignment of conditions led to a…

Science Oct 15

Why a billionaire mining executive is betting on green energy

This week, countries may approve a carbon tax on the global shipping industry. The International Maritime Organization is poised to approve new levies on ships for their emissions, but the Trump administration argues it's a harmful tax. William Brangham has…

Arts Oct 12

Documentary argues George Orwell’s greatest fears are materializing

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's greatest fears are coming true. William Brangham talked with director Raoul Peck…

Nation Oct 09

ICE escalates aggressive raids in Chicago as Trump moves to deploy National Guard

President Trump and his team are doubling down on efforts to bring the National Guard into Democrat-run cities and to ramp up ICE enforcement. The administration argues that episodes of violence against federal agents constitute a danger. Governors and mayors…

Politics Oct 08

‘My husband is not a threat’: ICE detains man married to U.S. citizen

Even as the Trump administration continues to insist that its immigration policies are just targeting the worst of the worst, many other immigrants in America are being detained as well. William Brangham spoke with Leslie Gonzales, whose husband was arrested…

Science Oct 07

Authors of ‘Science Under Siege’ warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells within the scientific community. William Brangham spoke with two prominent…

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