Jan 26 Love is all around: Mary Tyler Moore fans pay tribute to the TV icon By Joshua Barajas How Moore—who changed the way a woman was portrayed, seen and heard on television—was revolutionary to people, big and small. Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch 6:34 TV pioneer Mary Tyler Moore was a modern woman’s role model By PBS News Hour She had an iconic smile and laugh, but actress and comedian Mary Tyler Moore was also a revolutionary. The Oscar-nominated actress famously played a single career woman next door and a quirky housewife, changing how women were portrayed. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Jan 10 Journalist who broke the story of start of World War II dies at 105 By Lorna Baldwin Her biggest scoop came at age 27, just days into her rookie reporting career. Hollingworth was reporting in southern Poland for Britain's Daily Telegraph when she decided to investigate what was happening across the border. Continue reading
Dec 29 Debbie Reynolds, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ star, dead at 84 By Alison Thoet Singer, actress and Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds died Wednesday at age 84, just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Continue reading
Dec 26 Russia mourns victims of Christmas Day airplane crash By News Desk People lay flowers and lit candles Monday in Russia, which held a national day of mourning, for the 92 passengers and crew of an airplane that crashed into the Black Sea on Christmas Day. Continue reading
Nov 18 Column: The cosmic power of Gwen Ifill By Mike Melia Mark Twain had his Halley’s Comet. We say Shakespeare died on his birthday. On the last day of Gwen Ifill's life, a full moon drew closer to Earth. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch 6:14 Your remembrances of Gwen Ifill By PBS News Hour Tributes have flooded in since Gwen Ifill's death Monday, from those remembering her contributions to journalism to the impact she had on their own lives. Continue watching
Nov 15 Gwen’s Take on journalism, race and Queen Latifah By Larisa Epatko We at the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week lost our dear colleague, Gwen Ifill, to cancer on Monday. During her life, she often was called upon to discuss journalism, but other topics, too: among them, race, music and advice for… Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch 9:31 Gwen Ifill, 61, PBS journalist who covered history and made history By PBS News Hour Gwen Ifill, who was the heart and soul of the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week, passed away on Monday after a battle with cancer. We look back at Gwen’s life and remarkable career in journalism. Continue watching
Nov 14 Fellow journalists, political leaders and viewers offer tributes to Gwen By Joshua Barajas, Jaclyn Diaz The news of Gwen Ifill’s death devastated the PBS NewsHour newsroom, where she was a beloved leader and mentor to generations of journalists. Continue reading