About Zachary @Zach4TheEvening
As part of the associate producer "Dream Team" (as they refer to themselves) at NewsHour Weekend, Zachary Green produces and assists in the production of many of the segments featured on NewsHour Weekend. This includes shooting, writing, and editing such pieces as "No Comment" and "Digital Death". Before joining NewsHour, Zachary was an associate producer for Need to Know on PBS.
Zachary’s Recent Stories
Health Dec 13
Prisons, jails are COVID-19 hotspots. Is vaccinating inmates a priority?Jails and prison, which house 2 million incarcerated people, have had some of the largest rates of COVID-19 in the country. As new vaccines begin to be distributed, what priority do incarcerated people take in receiving treatment? NewsHour Weekend’s Zachary…
Nation Nov 21
LGBTQ foster kids have a harder time finding permanent homesAccording to a recent study, more than a third of kids in New York City's foster care system identify as LGBTQ. Most of those children end up in group homes and treatment centers, rather than finding permanent homes with families.
Nation Oct 24
In a redistricting battle, Missouri voters asked to reverse their 2018 decisionIn 2018, Missouri voters passed the “Clean Missouri” amendment, which took redistricting out of the hands of politically appointed commissioners and gave it to a single nonpartisan demographer. But this year Missouri’s legislature added a new option on the ballot…
Nation Sep 26
In rural Massachusetts, racial injustice persists despite big BLM turnoutThis summer, thousands of residents showed up for the Black Lives Matter protests in Great Barrington, Massachusetts -- a small town of less than 7,000 people. NewsHour Weekend’s Zachary Green, who grew up there, reports on how Black people in…
Nation Sep 26
In mostly white Great Barrington, MA, an effort to celebrate Black lifeGreat Barrington, MA, is W.E.B. DuBois’s birthplace. It may be surprising to find these markers of Black culture in a town where almost every face is white, but they are reminders of a part of life here that few outside…
Arts Sep 05
Masks, smaller audience: The show goes on as states ease restrictionsFor almost six months, the art world has been at a standstill as museums, galleries, and theaters have all been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But as some states begin to lift restrictions, the arts have also slowly started…
Education Jun 07
Once homeless, a new college graduate looks to the futureWhen we last spoke with Jaime Waldron earlier in April, she was a homeless college student worried about completing her online studies before graduation. Now, Waldron has officially graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in criminal justice.
Nation May 16
Is COVID-19 delaying the fight for voting rights in Florida?In Florida, people with felony records are fighting to regain their voting rights. But the coronavirus has made that struggle more difficult. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano spoke to Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition about what effect the…
Arts May 03
A dance troupe self-isolates, but finds an online venueLast summer, Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray premiered his latest dance piece at New York City art center, The Shed. Less than a year later, every major performance venue in New York is closed. But Gray and his fellow performers aren’t…
Nation Apr 25
School closures leave homeless students even more vulnerableThere are more than 1.5 million homeless public school students in the United States. But with many of those young people relying on school for safety, stability and food, the mass closures of school buildings all over the country due…