Dec 09 Reporter Gets House Arrest for Not Revealing Source By PBS News Hour A television reporter in Rhode Island was sentenced to six months of house arrest Thursday for refusing to reveal who leaked him an FBI videotape of a politician taking a bribe. Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch Reporters in CIA Leak Investigation Charged Terence Smith speaks with Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment attorney representing journalists Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, and Victoria Toensing, a former deputy assistant attorney general, about the reporters' legal battle to keep their sources confidential in the investigation into… Continue watching
Nov 24 Viacom to Pay Record $3.5 Million to Settle FcCC Indecency Cases Media giant Viacom Inc. agreed Tuesday to pay a record $3.5 million to settle dozens of federal investigations into alleged indecency on its TV and radio programs. Continue reading
Nov 23 Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather to Resign Veteran CBS News anchor Dan Rather announced Tuesday he will step down on March 9, the 24th anniversary of inheriting the job from Walter Cronkite. Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch CBS News Anchor Dan Rather to Resign in 2005 CBS News' Dan Rather, 73, announced he will step down from his anchor post, exactly 24 years after inheriting the job from Walter Cronkite. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, plans to step down after heading the… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch White House Reporters Discuss the Wave of Resignations The departure of Secretary of State Colin Powell topped the list of four departing members from President Bush's second term Cabinet. Terence Smith speaks with two White House correspondents about the wave of resignations and its ramification for the president's… Continue watching
Nov 05 Watch What Went Wrong? Terence Smith speaks with Warren Mitofsky, co-director of the National Election Pool, about why the exit polls in the presidential election were so misleading. Continue watching
Nov 01 Watch Calling the Race Terence Smith and news executives discuss the reporting difficulties of the 2000 presidential election and how election night coverage will be different this year. Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch Political Cartoons Reflect Tense Election Atmosphere Stephen Hess, professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, looks at the presidential campaign as seen by political cartoonists. Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch Political Advertisements Change Tone As the Presidential Campaign Winds Down Dueling political advertisements are flooding the airwaves in the last few days of the presidential campaign. Two experts discuss the ongoing ad war. Continue watching