PBS NewsHour Launches New Web Page, PBS NEWSHOUR SCIENCE

PBS NewsHour announces the launch of “PBS NewsHour Science” www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/science a one-stop web destination for the latest news in science, engineering and technology.  The site goes live Tuesday, November 16, 2010 and features reporting by NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien, NewsHour Digital Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, Reporter/Producer Jenny Marder and the PBS NewsHour’s award winning science reporting unit.

Features include:

Feature stories:  Originally-reported print and tape pieces, with strong visual elements. 

Breaking news stories: Regular coverage of breaking science news stories.

Miles Online: Reports from NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien, including field reports, blog posts, and extended interviews. 

Hari’s Energy/Environment Corner:  Hari Sreenivasan’s ongoing coverage of energy and the environment. This will be part innovation, part business and part coverage of clean tech, all keeping tabs on news in the energy and environment sectors.

“Just Ask” – a weekly Science Q&A: The NewsHour science team will select viewer questions to pose to scientists and experts who will respond in print or video form.

Story Feed: Each Monday and Thursday, the NewsHour science reporting team will post the top stories from sources they follow (so you don’t have to).

Podcasts:  download or subscribe to podcasts of all broadcast and online reports.

Editor’s Choice: NewsHour editors select and feature the best reports, videos and other materials from the site.

NewsHour Extra: Links to lesson plans and student reporting, from the NewsHour Extra site.

Twitter Feed:  The website will feature the Top 25 Science twitter feeds and viewers can follow the NewsHour’s science reports @NewsHourSci .

PBS NewsHour Science is just the latest in a series of subject specific “topic pages” where viewers can find the latest news, information, videos and links on the issues they find most interesting.   

PBS NewsHour Topic pages include:

Politics – Full coverage of elections and Congress, as well as diplomatic and international political issues

ArtBeat – A blog covering art and entertainment, brought to you by correspondent Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters

Making Sen$e – Paul Solman’s guide to the economy

Patchwork Nation -explores economic trends in the U.S. by tracking different types of communities over time.

Global Health Watch – News and on-the-ground reports exploring the diseases, conditions and policies affecting the health of people around the world.

RX for Reform – In-depth coverage and reports to help decode the debate over health care reform.

Supreme Court – Analysis of the latest arguments before and decisions from the high court

And many more …

The PBS NewsHour Science unit is made possible by support from The Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and The National Science Foundation

PBS NEWSHOUR is seen five nights a week on more than 315 PBS stations across the country and is also available online, via public radio in select markets and via podcast. The program is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, in association with WETA Washington, DC, and THIRTEEN in New York. Major corporate funding for The NewsHour is provided by Chevron, Bank of America and Intel, with additional support from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.