Jun 07 PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs announces 2019 SRL Academy Fellows Twenty six talented up-and-coming youth journalists from 14 states will travel to the nation’s capital this summer to participate in an immersive real-world journalism experience with PBS NewsHour. Continue reading
May 22 PBS NewsHour expands arts coverage, launches new digital platform, with $1.7 million investment from Knight Foundation ARLINGTON, VA (May 22, 2019) -- PBS NewsHour today announced the expansion of CANVAS, its broadcast and digital arts reporting initiative, with $1.7 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The expansion aims to improve public… Continue reading
Apr 23 PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Two Peabody Awards for "The Plastic Problem" and "Kept Out" ARLINGTON, VA (April 23, 2019) — PBS NewsHour today was named the recipient of two George Foster Peabody Awards for its 2018 series "The Plastic Problem" and "Kept Out," produced in partnership with Reveal, the Associated Press, and… Continue reading
Apr 19 PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Three Headliner Awards ARLINGTON, VA (April 19, 2019) — PBS NewsHour today received three National Headliner awards for its 2018 reporting on the brutal civil war in Yemen, the Zika epidemic in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and racial discrimination in… Continue reading
Apr 09 PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Four Peabody Award Nominations ARLINGTON, VA (April 9, 2019) — PBS NewsHour today received four Peabody Award nominations for its 2018 series "On the Fire Line," "The Plastic Problem," and "Inside Yemen… Continue reading
Mar 26 Four-Part PBS NewsHour Series "Warnings from Antarctica" to Debut in April 2019 Arlington, VA (March 26, 2019) -- Throughout the month of April – and as part of PBS NewsHour's weekly Leading Edge science reporting on Wednesdays – correspondent William Brangham and producers Emily Carpeaux and Mike Fritz travel to Earth's southernmost… Continue reading
Mar 25 PBS Presents "The Mueller Report" - a Special Collaboration from FRONTLINE and PBS NewsHour The Mueller Report Airing Monday, March 25 at 8pm EST/7pm CST on PBS and online In response to conclusions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, PBS presents The Mueller… Continue reading
Mar 06 "PBS NewsHour" Announces Expansion of Broadcast and Digital Capabilities with the Launch of "PBS NewsHour West" at Arizona State University Arlington, Va. and Phoenix, Ariz. (March 6, 2019) — PBS NewsHour executive producer Sara Just today announced the launch of PBS NewsHour West at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The opening of the bureau, made… Continue reading
Feb 22 PBS NewsHour Names Award-Winning Journalist Ali Rogin Foreign Affairs Producer Washington, D.C. (February 22, 2019) -- PBS NewsHour executive producer Sara Just today named award-winning journalist Ali Rogin the nightly news broadcast's newest foreign affairs producer. Rogin - who has spent the past decade reporting on politics, Congress and foreign policy - was most recently a… Continue reading
Feb 21 Jane Ferguson Named Recipient of George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting WASHINGTON D.C. (Feb. 21, 2019) -- PBS NewsHour special correspondent Jane Ferguson was named recipient of the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting, administered by Long Island University, for her groundbreaking coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Ferguson's… Continue reading