Mar 14 Watching PBS NewsHour Video Online: What’s Changed? By News Desk You may have noticed some changes in recent weeks to the way videos are being posted on the PBS NewsHour website.We're in the midst of a transition with as we move to the PBS Video player, which houses online… Continue reading
Mar 14 A Snapshot of Economic Inequality Across our ‘Patchwork Nation’ By Elizabeth Shell EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul Solman and Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation recently traveled to Ohio's Crawford and Delaware counties to examine economic inequality. In a preview of the upcoming story, which is slated to air on Tuesday's broadcast, we're… Continue reading
Mar 11 Afghan Civilian Casualties Database Appears in Unexpected Place: Science We close this week with an unusual collaboration in the world of science. In January, 2011, the military released an entire database of civilian casualties to the journal, Science -- a first for a science magazine. The data… Continue reading
Mar 11 Report: U.S. Military Leadership Lacks Diversity at Top For decades, the U.S. military has worked to create a force that mirrors the racial and ethnic diversity of the American population. Now, a congressionally charted commission has reported that while the Pentagon has achieved that goal in the… Continue reading
Mar 11 Public Media Urged to Take Up a ‘Texas Swagger’ By Lauren Knapp AUSTIN, Texas | The agenda for this week's Integrated Media Association conference -- held on the cusp of SXSW -- reads like a menu of new media choices, including social media, strategic partnerships, how to take advantage of… Continue reading
Mar 10 Frontline Exclusive: Bradley Manning’s Father Discusses Son’s Incarceration Pvt. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst accused of stealing thousands of classified government documents and providing them to WikiLeaks, is in custody at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Va., where he is in solitary confinement and… Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch Live: Hill Hearings on Muslim Radicalization Free live streaming by Ustream The House Homeland Security committee, chaired by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch Schiller’s Exit Not End of Storm for NPR, Funding Debate Schiller's Exit May Not Be End of the Storm for NPR… Continue watching
Mar 09 Behind the Scenes at an Interview With 3 Powerful Women People often ask me if I like doing television interviews. They follow up with: Are they hard to do? My answer is that I love doing them, and that every single one is a challenge. As a reporter, I want… Continue reading
Mar 09 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist David Broder Dies at 81 Updated 7:26 p.m. ET with comments from Margaret Warner | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David S. Broder died on Wednesday of complications from diabetes, his newspaper, The Washington Post, reported. He was 81 years old. Broder, a frequent guest on… Continue reading