Dec 07 Paul Solman Wins Business Emmy for Unemployment Reporting By Carolyn O'Hara At the 7th Annual Business & Financial Emmy Awards luncheon today, Paul Solman and team won an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a current business news story for "Faces Behind the Numbers," a duo of pieces on U.S. unemployment. Continue reading
Dec 07 Kennedy’s Seat Up For Grabs on Tuesday On Tuesday, Massachusetts Democrats will choose the likely Senate successor to late Edward M. Kennedy when they go to the polls to select the winner of the party's primary. The seat is currently held by a… Continue reading
Dec 07 Pentagon Orders 16,000 Troops to Afghanistan as Part of Obama’s Surge The Pentagon announced today which military forces will deploy to Afghanistan as part of the troop buildup President Obama announced last week at West Point. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the first batch of troops would include 1,500 Marines… Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch With Afghan Plan Under Fire, Pentagon Issues First Deployments More than half of the 30,000 additional soldiers President Obama will send to Afghanistan received their deployment orders Monday, despite lingering questions over a planned drawdown beginning in 2011. Continue watching
Dec 07 Ray Suarez: Philadelphia as a Patchwork Nation Industrial Metropolis By Ray Suarez In a century, Philadelphia has moved from a city of skilled blue collar workers, an economy with more than half its jobs in manufacturing, to a city where one out of 20 workers made things for a living. Depending on… Continue reading
Dec 07 Monday’s Headlines: Afghanistan, Climate Change and Health Care -- A U.S. soldier shakes hands with villagers during a patrol in the Narang district of the eastern Kunar province in Afghanistan on Sunday. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images) Several news organizations over the weekend focused their attention… Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch Mullen on Afghanistan: ‘We Have Not Set a Withdrawal Date’ In an interview with Jim Lehrer, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen discusses President Obama's plan to send an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. Continue watching
Dec 04 ‘I Am Not in the Entertainment Business’ and Other Rules of MacNeil/Lehrer Journalism By Dave Gustafson Signing off of Friday's broadcast, Jim Lehrer outlined the journalistic mindset that has driven the program for 34 years and will continue to guide it when its fifth iteration relaunches Monday as the PBS NewsHour: JIM LEHRER: People often ask… Continue reading
Dec 04 Moderates Offer Cost-cutting Health Bill Amendment By Bridget Desimone As the Senate floor debate on health care reform legislation continued into its fifth day, three moderate senators came together to offer an amendment they said would bolster cost controls in the bill. Maine Republican Susan Collins, Connecticut Independent… Continue reading
Dec 04 Obama to Appear on Climate Summit Closing Day President Barack Obama upped the ante on his appearance at the Copenhagen Climate Summit Friday, switching his travel plans to appear on the final day of the summit, Dec. 18, instead of Dec. 9 on his way to pick… Continue reading