Oct 23 PBS NewsHour Hires Three, Promotes Two, within 2016 Election Team Washington, DC (October 22, 2015) — PBS NewsHour’s 2016 Elections Team has three new hires and two promotions, expanding a growing team focused on covering the races with depth, insight and vigor. “The PBS NewsHour has two of the best political… Continue reading
Oct 20 PBS NewsHour Clarification On October 12, 2015, the PBS NewsHour aired a report from veteran education reporter John Merrow, based on nearly a year of reporting, about suspension policies of young children and one successful charter school network in New York City. Continue reading
Oct 12 Soledad O’Brien Takes Viewers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Special PBS NewsHour Series Washington, DC (October 12, 2015) – The PBS NewsHour with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will air “Congo’s Hope,” a series of three segments with contributing editor Soledad O’Brien to premiere on tonight’s broadcast (check local listings) and continue this week. In July 2015, O’Brien traveled… Continue reading
Sep 29 PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Two News and Documentary Emmy Awards PBS NewsHour was named the recipient of two Emmy awards on Monday evening at the 36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Continue reading
Sep 21 PBS Special Presentation ‘America After Charleston’ Examines Race, Politics and Inequality with Experts and Public. Premieres Monday, September 21, 9 P.M. ET PBS today announced additional details for its special broadcast, AMERICA AFTER CHARLESTON, a one-hour town hall meeting that explores the many issues propelled into public discourse after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston’s Emanuel African… Continue reading
Sep 21 PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll Demonstrates Both White and African American Residents Nationally Agree That Race Relations in the U.S. Have Deteriorated In Past Year *** Use of poll findings require attribution to the “PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll” and reference to PBS’s Monday, September 21 broadcast of America After Charleston with Gwen Ifill*** Washington, DC (September 21, 2015) — Three months after a white gunman shot… Continue reading
Sep 14 PBS to Premiere ‘America After Charleston’ on Monday, September 21 PBS to Premiere America After Charleston on Monday, Sept 21. A special production to be moderated by Gwen Ifill. Continue reading
Sep 09 PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff to Moderate National Association of Manufacturers 2016 Presidential Candidates Forum Washington, DC (September 9, 2015) – As the presidential primary season heats up, PBS NewsHour co-anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff will moderate the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) 2016 Presidential Candidates Forum on Manufacturing on Monday, November 2, 2015 in Pella, Iowa. Republican… Continue reading
Aug 31 The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance WASHINGTON, DC (August 31, 2015) – Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. These are just three names that have dominated news coverage in the past year. Different stories and different circumstances, provoking similar conversations about race on a national and… Continue reading
Aug 13 PBS NewsHour Debuts 5-Part Series “Rethinking College: Closing the Graduation Gap” Week of August 17 WASHINGTON, DC (August 13, 2015) – Each night the week of August 17, 2015 (check local listings), the PBS NewsHour with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will broadcast the… Continue reading