Jun 01 Watch Does the Internet Help or Hurt Democracy? Does the pervading presence of the Web make people better citizens or does it propagate misinformation and threaten democracy? Paul Solman has a look at the unfolding debate as staged by the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs. Continue watching
May 18 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Henri Cartier-Bresson By Molly Finnegan French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled the world for decades capturing people, places and history as a journalist, and in the process, helped define photography as an art form. His legacy is now on display in an exhibit called 'Henri Cartier-Bresson:… Continue reading
Apr 23 Friday on the NewsHour: Mark Fiore, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning Mark Fiore is the first internet animator to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His work appears only online -- on his own website, plus that of the San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio and other outlets. Continue reading
Feb 18 New Biography Looks at the Man Behind the Pulitzer Legacy Most of us have heard of the Pulitzer Prize, the annual awards honoring excellence in journalism. But what about the men behind it? Joseph Pulitzer was a penniless immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1864 speaking no… Continue reading
Jan 21 Farnsworth Honored for ‘The Judge and The General’ By Hari Sreenivasan Tonight, NewsHour alumna Elizabeth Farnsworth will be honored with one of this year's prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for her work as co-director/producer of "The Judge and the General" -- a documentary on the judge who indicted Augusto… Continue reading
Jan 20 Watch New York Times Looks to Charge Online Readers, Again The New York Times has decided to charge online readers a fee for accessing the newspaper's Web site, starting in 2011. Jeffrey Brown considers whether readers will actually pay for the service. Continue watching
Dec 08 Judy Woodruff: Times Change in Journalism, But Curiosity Doesn’t By Judy Woodruff This is an exciting moment for all of us at the NewsHour, whether we've been working here for decades, or just a few months. The changes you see -- here on the Web site and on television -- are the… 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