May 12 Jim Lehrer’s Changing Role: Leave Your Reflections, Favorite Moments By News Desk Jim Lehrer announced Thursday that he is taking another step toward ending his 36 years of anchoring or co-anchoring our daily public television news broadcast. Beginning June 6, he will no longer be part of the regular daily anchor… Continue reading
May 12 Jim Lehrer Stepping Down From Regular Anchor Role on PBS NewsHour By Simon Marks Watch video of Jim Lehrer's announcement on Thursday's NewsHour: // Some news today about the PBS NewsHour... Jim Lehrer has announced that he is taking another step toward ending his 36 years of anchoring or co-anchoring our daily public… Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch On Centennial Celebration, Reflecting on Ronald Reagan’s Legacy With Sunday marking the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, watch an excerpt of a 1989 interview where Jim Lehrer spoke with the former president about debating then-President Jimmy Carter. Continue watching
Sep 02 Lehrer Honored With Marine Corps Parade Jim Lehrer was honored in late August at a parade in Washington hosted by Gen. James Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps. Lehrer, whose father was a Marine, served with his brother in the Third Marine Division in the Far… Continue reading
Apr 16 Jim Lehrer’s ‘Super’ Office Tour By Hari Sreenivasan I remember walking into Jim Lehrer’s office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there. For a… Continue reading
Dec 22 Exclusive: Jim Lehrer to Interview President Obama Wednesday By Maureen Hoch As the Senate prepares for a landmark vote on a health care overhaul, Jim Lehrer will sit down with President Barack Obama at the White House Wednesday afternoon for an exclusive television interview on the health reform push and more. Continue reading
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 Watch Another Chapter Begins for NewsHour On the final night of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the anchor looks back at the show's 34-year history and ahead to the new PBS NewsHour. Continue watching
Dec 03 Launching the PBS NewsHour By Maureen Hoch The PBS NewsHour will premiere on-air on Dec. 7. Read more about the changes to the program and the Web site in the editor's note below from Executive Producer Linda Winslow and Associate Executive Producer Simon Marks. Continue reading
Jul 28 Tales From the Fed: Blinder on the Fallout from Lehman’s Failure By Business Desk Paul Solman: All this week, we’re posting excerpts of interviews we did with former Fed officials on the economic crisis and the Fed’s evolving role in the economy. The series is in conjunction with the NewsHour’s hour-long public forum… Continue reading