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About Beth @bponsot

Elisabeth Ponsot (Beth) is the Digital News Editor at PBS NewsHour Weekend, where she oversees the program's online team.

Beth is responsible for managing the PBS NewsHour's online news coverage and social media accounts on the weekends.

Prior to joining PBS NewsHour, Beth was a web producer for PBS Need to Know and worked as a multimedia reporter and social media editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Colby College.

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Nation Nov 17

Where were you when you heard JFK had been shot?

Londoners buying newspapers and reading about details of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Credit: Terrence Spencer/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images As part of our continuing coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, PBS NewsHour…

Nation Nov 10

INFOGRAPHIC: U.S. pensions in peril

Tonight on NewsHour Weekend, the debut of "The Pension Peril," a public television initiative looking at the nation's more than trillion dollar shortfall in funding for public employees' retirement benefits. We begin our series with a report from the…

Nation Sep 12

Join Hari Sreenivasan for #AnchorHours

Last weekend, NewsHour Weekend debuted on stations across the country on Saturday and Sunday.  This week, we begin Anchor Hours with NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan (@hari). Hari will be joined by NewsHour Weekend…

Arts Sep 08

Art for Art’s Sake: A Conversation with Michael Chabon

// Celebrated author Michael Chabon speaks with NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about the artists colony community in Peterborough, N.H. The first time author Michael Chabon came to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., it was 1996 and he was the…

Nation Sep 05

Google+ Hangout On Air: A First Look at NewsHour Weekend

On Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. EDT, PBS NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan will host a Google+ Hangout On Air. The conversation will feature a first look at NewsHour Weekend's signature field-reported pieces, premiering on air Sept. 7 and 8…

Arts Aug 16

Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite Create ‘All-Purpose Blues’

// Blues musicians Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite performed the acoustic guitar-harmonica duet, "You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend)" for Art Beat at the Gibson showroom in Washington, D.C. The song is off the duo's recent album, "…

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