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	2012 JULY July 31, 2012 Behind the Scenes with the NewsHour in Nevada A behind the scenes look at the NewsHour's work in Nevada to profile the Asian American population and their impact on the 2012 election.

	July 31, 2012 Social Media Users Express Disappointment with NBC's Olympics Coverage Using hashtags like #NBCFail, Olympics fans have tweeted complaints of delayed and incomplete programming and streaming restrictions for the London Games. Gwen Ifill talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan and The New York Times' Richard Sandomir about how online viewers are experiencing NBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics.

	July 27, 2012 Gwen's Take: Bill Raspberry, 1925-2012 I wasn't exactly wet behind the ears when I arrived at The Washington Post in 1984, but it was close. There was a wall of glass offices on the north side of the newsroom. I could look across a sea of desks and cubicles and spy the likes of Bob Woodward, Ben Bradlee, David Broder -- and Bill Raspberry

	July 16, 2012 Pew Study: More Viewers Choose YouTube for Breaking News The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study Monday showing that news consumers are increasingly trading traditional media for YouTube. Jeffrey Brown discusses the challenges and opportunities traditional media sources now face with Pew's Tom Rosenstiel and The New York Times' Brian Stelter.

	July 16, 2012 Yahoo Nabs Google's Marissa Mayer to be Company's New CEO Yahoo! has a new leader. Again. Marissa Mayer has been tapped to be the company's next CEO, the fifth person to take the helm of the Internet giant in five years

	July 12, 2012 An Election on Facebook: Old Media Enters New World Do "likes" on Facebook translate to votes? Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily-Download.com examine that issue with Ray Suarez and also explore why traditional news outlets are partnering with social media sites this election year.

	July 11, 2012 10 Questions with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales When Wikipedia formally launched on Jan. 15, 2001, creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger hoped to create over 100,000 articles.

	July 10, 2012 Russian Blackouts, Neutrality and Trusting Wikipedia Hari interviews Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on today's blackouts in Russia, trusting crowd-sourced information and attracting more women to the Wikipedia community.



	JUNE June 29, 2012 Washington's 100-Degree Day of Contempt, Constitutionality and the Rule of Law Understanding that I was too young to witness the Kennedy funeral or the Nixon resignation firsthand, watching the Supreme Court uphold a sweeping health care law hours before the House of Representatives voted to find an attorney general in contempt of Congress - for the first time ever - was riveting.

	June 28, 2012 News Outlets Don't All Get Ruling Right A rush to quickly report the Supreme Court's decision on President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday tripped up some news organizations that got it wrong and had to quickly correct themselves.

	June 21, 2012 Court Rejects FCC Fines for Indecency, Rules Against SEIU The Supreme Court dismissed fines against broadcasters who violated FCC indecency policies but did not address whether the government has the authority to regulate indecency on broadcast TV. The justices also said unions must let nonmembers object to unexpected fee increases that all workers are required to pay in a closed-shop.

	June 13, 2012 Times-Picayune Editor on Commitment, Accountability Amid Cutbacks After 175 years, one of the nation's oldest daily newspapers -- The Times-Picayune -- announced Tuesday that 200 staff members would lose their jobs this fall. Judy Woodruff, Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss and The New York Times' David Carr discuss how New Orleans just became the largest U.S. metro without a daily.

	June 3, 2012 As Zimmerman Surrenders, Is Social Media a Game Changer for Defense Attorneys? For attorneys, creating a social-media strategy for a legal client is a relatively new phenomenon. Attorneys for George Zimmerman, the Florida man charged in the death of unarmed Trayvon Martin, have launched a Facebook page, Twitter account, website and a blog on his behalf. This use of social media may well be on trial itself.



	MAY May 22, 2012 Pakistani Women Counter Country's Violence With Textbooks, TV Shows Pakistan is experiencing a surge in many types of violence, and some of the women working to counteract it place some of the blame on the country's schools.

	May 17, 2012 Florida Journalism Program Gives Students Reason to Stay in School Student Leon Tomlinson joined Journeys in Journalism in third grade and said that the program was one of the main reasons he now excels in the classroom.

	May 17, 2012 Young Journalists at Work Over the course of reporting a story on a communications magnet program in St. Petersburg, Fla., the NewsHour met many students going through the K-12 "Journeys in Journalism" program. View a slideshow of their work.



	APRIL April 26, 2012 For Murdoch, Concerns His Great Empire Is 'Under Serious Threat' When Rupert Murdoch took the stand Thursday in the second day of a U.K. media ethics inquiry, he coupled an apology for News of the World's "blot" on his News Corp record with accusations that journalists had covered up the phone-hacking. Ray Suarez and The New York Times' John Burns discuss the media mogul's testimony.

	April 26, 2012 'I Failed,' Murdoch Says of Tabloid Scandal While Denying Part in Wrongdoing Media mogul Rupert Murdoch took the stand Thursday in a British media ethics inquiry, describing his News of the World tabloid as a "serious blot" on his News Corp reputation. Murdoch also said he wished the paper behind the phone hacking and cover-up had been shuttered sooner. Paul Davies of Independent Television News reports.

	April 25, 2012 News Wrap: Murdoch Downplays Political Sway in Media Ethics Inquiry In other news Wednesday, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch appeared before a British inquiry panel to refute charges he had too cozy a relationship with Britain's top politicians, among them former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Also, the U.S. Senate voted to slow down service cuts to the ailing U.S. Postal Service.

	April 20, 2012 Before His Death, Dawn Editor Razvi 'Wouldn't Leave Pakistan for the Moon' Two days before his brutal death, Dawn editor Murtaza Razvi replied to my email asking why he and his family chose to live in Pakistan despite its many challenges.

	April 17, 2012 Pulitzer Profile: AP's Investigative Reporting Prize for NYPD Profiling Series First brought to light in an Associated Press series of reports, a post-9/11 surveillance program by the New York City Police Department on Muslim communities has raised calls for a federal probe. Jeffrey Brown and the AP's Adam Goldman discuss the series that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on Monday.

	April 16, 2012 Watch NewsHour Interviews With 2012 Pulitzer Winners Citing "distinguished" prose and reporting, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism, letters, drama and music were announced Monday by Columbia University. Watch NewsHour interviews with some of this year's winners, including poet Tracy K. Smith.

	April 16, 2012 Pulitzer Prize Profile: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Public Service Award Announced Monday by Columbia University, The Philadelphia Inquirer won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its "Assault on Learning" series that chronicled pervasive under-reported violence in the city's public schools. Jeffrey Brown and The Inquirer's Kristen Graham discuss the award and the series' impact on the city.

	April 16, 2012 How to Remove Yourself From Google Street View Google was fined by the Federal Communications Commission for hampering an investigation into the company's Street View data collection methods. Don't like your image on Street View? Hari Sreenivasan walks through tips on how to alert Google.

	April 13, 2012 Why Titanic's Story Still Resonates 100 Years Later One hundred years after the Titanic sank, the story of the technological triumph-turned-tragedy still captivates many people. Margaret Warner and writer Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the recent New Yorker piece "Unsinkable: Why We Can't Let Go of the Titanic," discuss the story's staying power.

	April 12, 2012 Latest Chapter in the E-Books Battle Why are Amazon, Apple and several major publishers locked in a bitter fight over the pricing of electronic books? In the wake of a major price-fixing suit from the Department of Justice, Andrew Albanese of Publishers Weekly spoke about the rise of the ebook as a publishing phenomenon and the financial stakes for the industry.

	April 9, 2012 Remembering Mike Wallace, Legendary '60 Minutes' Interrogator A Mike Wallace interview was often harsh, unsympathetic even. The "60 Minutes" icon was never reluctant to confront the feared or the famous -- from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to Malcolm X to pitcher Roger Clemens. Wallace, 93, died Saturday. Morley Safer and Jeff Fager of CBS reflect on Wallace's career with Jeffrey Brown.

	April 5, 2012 Examining Social Media Pressure on Santorum, Campaign Culture on Pinterest As part of an ongoing series on how candidates and surrogates are using social media this election season, Margaret Warner and journalists Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz of the Daily Download discuss how Ann Romney and President Obama have used the virtual bulletin board Pinterest to reach out to voters, especially female ones.

	April 5, 2012 For Troubled Media Industry, Some Hope as Mobile News Consumption Grows As more Americans use mobile devices and social media to consume their news, the appeal of traditional news outlets is up, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center that scrutinizes the industry's health. Judy Woodruff and the Center's Mark Jurkowitz discuss some encouraging developments amid ongoing industry woes.

	April 3, 2012 Translate This: a Campaign in Every Language Do you read or write a language other than English? If so, we need your help. In partnership with the Participatory Culture Foundation through the Universal Subtitles project, the all-volunteer PBS NewsHour captioning and translation team is up and running.



	MARCH March 23, 2012 China's Programming for U.S. Audiences: Is it News or Propaganda? China Central Television has opened a new broadcast bureau in Washington, D.C., and is now producing news programs in English for an American audience. Leaders at CCTV America say they uphold traditional journalistic values, but critics say the programs may look like news, but they really are propaganda. Ray Suarez reports.

	March 19, 2012 Facebook, Twitter Not Dominating News Landscape Just Yet The importance of using social media to promote a news organization's journalism is pretty much a given in any newsroom these days, but as popular as Facebook and Twitter are, they do not seem to be driving as much traffic to news websites as one would think.

	March 8, 2012 'Kony 2012': 'Unprecedented' Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined The "Stop Kony" campaign that's gone viral in recent days aims to spotlight the atrocities of warlord Joseph Kony in Uganda. Margaret Warner discusses the nonprofit Invisible Children's popular "Kony 2012" video and its ensuing criticism with the Institute for Policy Studies' Emira Woods and Porter Novelli's Dawn Arteaga.

	March 6, 2012 A Life Under Fire: Combat Photographer Captures, Carries Wounds of War Combat photographers have been documenting the terror, violence and boredom of war since the invention of photography. Tom Bearden profiles Air Force Sgt. Stacy Pearsall, who has documented the effects of war -- and has paid a heavy price.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 29, 2012 News Corp.'s Succession 'in Flux' as James Murdoch Resigns Under pressure from the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed his tabloid News of the World last summer, James Murdoch -- the youngest son of Rupert Murdoch -- stepped down as executive chairman of News International. Gwen Ifill discusses the ongoing fallout with Ned Temko of The Observer in London.

	Feb. 24, 2012 Connecting to the Web: Freedom or Human Right? MEXICO CITY \| In January 1941, with the shadow of world war looming over the United States, President Franklin Roosevelt gave his State of the Union address. These days, no one knows it that way.

	Feb. 22, 2012 Marie Colvin, 'Fearless' War Reporter, Killed in Syria Shelling War correspondent Marie Colvin traveled to the most dangerous places on Earth to bear witness to the worst of man's inhumanity. Colvin was killed in Homes, Syria, on Wednesday when the house she was staying in was shelled by government forces.

	Feb. 17, 2012 Reporter Anthony Shadid Brought Intimate Look to Mideast Struggles The death of New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has been followed by an outpouring of praise for the talented and humble reporter, who passed away Thursday from an asthma attack while covering the unrest in Syria. Over the years, Shadid made numerous appearances on the NewsHour. Here are some highlights.



	JANUARY Jan. 25, 2012 The Power of the Telenovela Romance. Drama. That's what drives telenovelas, Latin American soap operas, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.

	Jan. 20, 2012 Hackers Retaliate Against DOJ in Raging Online Piracy Fight Just hours after the Justice Department shut down the file-sharing website megaupload.com and charged several of its executives with online piracy Thursday, a group of hackers retaliated by taking down the DOJ website. Margaret Warner discusses the ongoing battle with The Washington Post's Cecilia Kang.

	Jan. 20, 2012 Airman, Actors Seek to Inspire Youth with 'Red Tails' "Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!"

	Jan. 17, 2012 A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a participating company, and NBC Universal's Rick Cotton, who supports the legislation as written.

	Jan. 12, 2012 Beyond Dot-Com: Web Domains Set To Expand The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is opening up applications for new web domains. That means that the traditional endings of website names, most of which are familiar to users as .com, .org or .net, will be able to be almost any word in any language.



	2011 DECEMBER Dec. 15, 2011 Film, Music Industries Battle Leading Internet Companies Over Online Piracy U.S. film, TV and music producers are taking aim at leading Internet companies for allowing Web users to easily search and access pirated media. Jeffrey Brown explores options for policing pirated media with the Open Internet Coalition's Markham Erickson and the Motion Picture Association of America's Michael O'Leary.

	Dec. 13, 2011 News Literacy Project Trains Young People to Be Skeptical Media Consumers A program called the News Literacy Project is training young people in several major cities how to separate fact from fiction in the news they consume. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	Dec. 9, 2011 Nations Address Internet Freedom as Users, and Restrictions, Grow Twenty-two countries gathered in The Hague this week to pledge their support for Internet freedoms around the world, but governments, companies and bloggers alike pointed to a host of problems facing Internet users and providers.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 21, 2011 Tweet Your Thanksgiving Travel Tales With #TSATime In 2010, your tweets helped debunk fears that Thanksgiving travel would be a nightmare due to stricter airport security measures and 'opt-out' protests. This year, we want to hear again first-hand about your experience flying during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.

	Nov. 11, 2011 'One Day on Earth' Film Project Builds Worldwide Virtual Community Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film a moment in their lives this day.



	OCTOBER Oct. 27, 2011 A Life Under Fire: Combat Photographer Captures, Carries Wounds of War Combat photographers have been documenting the terror, violence and boredom of war since the invention of photography. Tom Bearden profiles Air Force Sgt. Stacy Pearsall, who has documented the effects of war -- and has paid a heavy price.

	Oct. 27, 2011 Bo Jones to Join MacNeil/Lehrer Productions as President and CEO Long-time Washington Post executive, Boisfeuillet (Bo) Jones Jr. has been named President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, effective at the beginning of 2012.