About Lorna @lornabaldwin
Lorna Baldwin is the Deputy Senior Producer for PBS NewsHour's segment production unit.
Lorna’s Recent Stories
Health Sep 25
Plastic lasts more than a lifetime, and that’s the problemAround the world, waves of plastic are washing ashore and clogging landfills. Even though plastic pollution is now one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals, our appetite for the virtually indestructible material keeps growing. Amna Nawaz and…
Health Jul 24
Why do pregnant women get confusing guidance about alcohol?How much alcohol can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a difficult to diagnose condition, sometimes called an "invisible disability"? Doctors don't know. While official guidelines say no amount of alcohol is safe to drink during pregnancy, women often receive mixed…
Health Jul 23
Fetal alcohol disorders are more common than you thinkFetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a possible result from mothers drinking during pregnancy, has flown under the radar for decades. Now new conservative estimates published in The Journal of the American Medical Association show that anywhere from 1.1 to 5 percent…
Nation Jul 23
The story about drinking while pregnant that got our newsroom talkingMany children with FASD go through multiple misdiagnoses and many don’t ever get diagnosed.
Politics Jun 08
Bill Clinton says America should be rooting for Trump’s success on North Korea“I think we should be rooting for” President Trump to succeed with Korean negotiations, former President Bill Clinton tells Judy Woodruff. In the second part of our interview with Clinton and author James Patterson, they discuss the prospects of the…
Politics Jun 07
Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky ‘paid quite a price’ for relationshipIn the first of a two-part interview, former President Clinton says said he was afraid that Monica Lewinsky would be frozen in the public memory for their relationship: "I didn't want that for her." He sits down with James Patterson,…
Politics Apr 18
Remembering Barbara Bush, political dynasty matriarchWe look back at the life of former first lady Barbara Bush. Son and former President George W. Bush describes his family saying goodbye in a conversation with Amy Holmes and Michael Gerson, then Judy Woodruff gets remembrances from Susan…
Nation Apr 17
Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at 92Barbara Bush, a former first lady and linchpin of one of American's leading political families, has died in Houston, Texas. A statement from the family did not immediately identify a cause of death.
Nation Mar 08
WATCH: 3 women recount years of harassment in the forest serviceFirefighters Darla Bush, Jonel Wagoner and Darlene Hall filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2014, claiming sexual harassment of and retaliation against women in the Forest Service in California.
Nation Mar 02
U.S. Forest Service chief under investigation after complaints of sexual misconductThe U.S. Forest Service has confirmed that parent agency USDA has “engaged an independent investigator” to look into complaints against Chief Tony Tooke. News of this investigation comes as the Forest Service deals with allegations of a broader culture of…
