Mar 31 Watch 6:40 Why Scott Simon shared his mother’s death with an unseen audience By PBS News Hour Scott Simon is known as the voice of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, but he also gained an audience when he used Twitter to document his mother’s final days. His 140-character observances of the life and death of his mother led… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch 6:25 A mother demands better advocacy for U.S. hostages By PBS News Hour Efforts to find and bring home Austin Rice, a freelance journalist who was kidnapped two and a half years ago, have not been fruitful. Tice’s parents are pushing for a new government entity that would be responsible for American hostages. Continue watching
Jan 03 Watch The ‘inner life’ of literary giant Norman Mailer J. Michael Lennon shares the person behind the image in "Norman Mailer: A Double Life."… Continue watching
Dec 26 Watch Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in ‘The Unwinding’ Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in 'The Unwinding'… Continue watching
Dec 09 Watch Seeing Syria’s Islamist fighters through the eyes of a journalist Seeing Syria's rebel forces through the eyes of a journalist… Continue watching
May 03 Watch In “Cooked,” Michael Pollan Reclaims Culture of Cooking In “Cooked,” Michael Pollan Reclaims Culture of Cooking… Continue watching
May 03 Watch How Michael Pollan Learned to Make Traditional Korean Kimchi How Michael Pollan Learned to Make Traditional Korean Kimchi… Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch Richard Ben Cramer, 62, Prize-Winning Journalist Who Had ‘What It Takes’ Richard Ben Cramer, 62, Prize-Winning Journalist Who Had 'What It Takes'… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch What Immigrants Can Teach the Rest of America What Immigrants Can Teach the Rest of America… Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch From Eden to the End of the World: Reporter’s Seven-Year Journey Traces Humanity Starting in January 2013, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek will set out from Africa's Great Rift Valley on a seven-year, 21,000-mile journey, tracing the believed path of ancient human migration. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Salopek about his assignment, one he… Continue watching