May 05 Nellie Bly honored in Karen O penned-Google doodle By Colleen Shalby One hundred and fifty-one years after her birth, Google is honoring American reporter Nellie Bly in an original ditty of a doodle penned by singer-songwriter Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Continue reading
Apr 10 Gwen's Take: Truth, justice and the American way By Gwen Ifill The best journalists can do is try to scrub our inbred biases (we all have them) by asking more questions. All the time. Every time. This is nearly impossible to do if you have already decided you know the answer. Continue reading
Apr 06 Watch 13:40 How Rolling Stone got the UVA sexual assault story so wrong By PBS News Hour A new report scrutinizes the many layers of error uncovered in a Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Gwen Ifill talks to Steve Coll of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about… Continue watching
Mar 24 Calling all journalism students: Join a Facebook chat with chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown By Nora Daly Journalism students will have the opportunity to learn from PBS NewsHour's chief correspondent for arts and culture Jeffrey Brown in a Facebook chat on Tuesday, March 31, from 2-3 p.m. EDT. Continue reading
Feb 12 Veteran CBS and '60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon dead at 73 By Tik Root, Jasmine Wright Bob Simon, the “60 Minutes” correspondent whose career in journalism spanned over five decades, died Wednesday night in a car accident in New York City. Simon was 73. Continue reading
Feb 04 NBC's Brian Williams apologizes for false Iraq war story By Joshua Barajas Brian Williams recanted on Wednesday a 12-year-old story that he was aboard a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire during the Iraq War invasion in 2003. Continue reading
Feb 01 Egypt releases jailed Al Jazeera journalist By Elisabeth Ponsot Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who had been imprisoned for 400 days on terrorism charges in Egypt, was released from a Cairo jail Sunday and deported back to his native Australia. Continue reading
Jan 29 Twitter chat: GloZell Green and Hank Green on interviewing Obama and the power of new media By Nora Daly With the advent of new media, journalists have the opportunity to communicate more directly with their audiences. Is traditional media taking advantage of this opportunity? Where do traditional journalism and initiatives like #YouTubeAsksObama overlap and what different needs do they… Continue reading
Jan 29 Judy Woodruff to aspiring journalists: 'You need to care about the world around you' By Nora Daly In the first in a series of Facebook chats featuring PBS NewsHour journalists, co-anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff on Tuesday addressed questions from journalism students ranging from how her father's military career impacted her worldview to the most interesting… Continue reading
Jan 19 Judy Woodruff to 'school' journalism students in Facebook chat By Nora Daly Join Judy Woodruff in this first in a series of Facebook chats for journalism students featuring PBS NewsHour journalists. Continue reading