Feb 23 Florida gunman kills 3 in Orlando, including reporter covering shooting By David Fischer, Freida Frisaro, Associated Press Florida police say a gunman accused of killing a woman in the Orlando area returned to the neighborhood hours later and shot four more people, killing a journalist covering the original shooting and a 9-year-old child. Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 7:10 Indian government’s crackdown on press freedom after BBC documentary critical of PM Modi By Amna Nawaz, Zeba Warsi Indian tax officials have conducted searches at the BBC offices in that country for the past two days. It comes weeks after India censored a BBC documentary that criticizes Prime Minister Modi. The actions against the British broadcaster put the… Continue watching
Jan 29 Watch 5:14 What’s behind a sharp increase in journalist killings around the world By Lisa Desjardins, Lorna Baldwin, Andrew Corkery According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2022 was one of the deadliest years on record for journalists around the globe, with a nearly 50 percent increase in killings from the previous years. Lisa Desjardins speaks to Jodie Ginsberg, president… Continue watching
Dec 30 Barbara Walters, trailblazing television journalist, dies at 93 By Frazier Moore, Associated Press Barbara Walters, the intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host who led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a network career remarkable for its duration and variety, has died. She was 93. Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch 7:44 Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s ‘My People’ looks back on her trailblazing career in journalism By Judy Woodruff Charlayne Hunter-Gault's trailblazing career in journalism has spanned more than 50 years. But before that, she made news herself when she became one of the first Black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Hunter-Gault joined Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 1:09 Judy Woodruff honored with Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award Our own Judy Woodruff was honored with the Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television News. She shared some words of wisdom as she accepted the award at the News and Documentary Emmys ceremony in New York on Wednesday. Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch 3:59 A journalist’s Brief But Spectacular take on telling the whole story By Melissa Williams, Lindsay Blatt David Bornstein is co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, a group that works with news organizations to produce rigorous reporting on responses to social problems. The goal is to “rebalance the news” to provide people a sense of investment and… Continue watching
Mar 15 Fox News photographer killed outside Kyiv By Associated Press Fox News photographer Pierre Zakrzewski was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was traveling in with reporter Benjamin Hall was struck by incoming fire, Fox News said on Tuesday. Continue reading
Mar 13 Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine By Pamela Sampson, Associated Press The 50-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas, native was gathering material for a report about refugees when his vehicle was hit at a checkpoint in Irpin, just outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Continue reading
Feb 13 Watch 7:45 Meet one of the journalists fighting to keep press freedom alive in Myanmar By Kira Kay, Jason Maloney Myanmar’s government continues to crackdown on freedoms after it removed Aung San Suu Kyi, the nation’s democratically elected leader after a coup. Special Correspondent Kira Kay meets one of the journalists risking their life to report on the civil conflict… Continue watching