Aug 07 Watch 7:39 Why do most movies still fail to reflect U.S. diversity? By PBS News Hour In a survey of the 100 top grossing films between 2007 and 2014, 30 percent of all speaking or named characters were women; less than 30 percent of such roles went to actors who were not white. Jeffrey Brown talks… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch 8:07 How funny man Jon Stewart became a serious influence By PBS News Hour Called the nation's "satirist in chief," Jon Stewart’s comedic rants and skewering of the daily news have had far-reaching influence on media and politics. Now he's leaving The Daily show after 16 years. Jeffrey Brown looks back at Stewart’s impact. Continue watching
Jul 22 Watch 1:38 You can now watch a century of historic newsreels on YouTube By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, 555,000 archival newsreel videos are being released by the Associated Press and British Movietone -- that's more than a million minutes of historic footage and quirky diversions, dating back to 1895. Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch 6:30 TV is dead? Author says there's something wrong with that picture By PBS News Hour Nowadays, there are more and more new media video options carpeting the web. But in his new book, “Television Is The New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age,” Michael Wolff argues that the Internet is… Continue watching
Jun 18 Watch 5:43 Despite lies, Brian Williams will still report breaking news By PBS News Hour NBC has announced that while “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will not be returning to his old post, he will be joining MSNBC as a breaking news anchor. Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News, and Mark Feldstein, a… Continue watching
Jun 12 Watch 5:55 Raising visibility for journalists imprisoned by Iran By PBS News Hour Journalist Maziar Bahari was held for months in a Tehran prison after being arrested while on assignment. He's written a memoir of that ordeal, "Then They Came for Me,” plus directed a documentary called "Forced Confessions." Now he's launched a… Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch 7:04 What handing over power means for Murdoch's media empire By PBS News Hour Eighty-four-year-old media titan Rupert Murdoch is ready to step aside from his role leading an empire worth tens of billions of dollars. Judy Woodruff talks to David Folkenflik of NPR about Murdoch’s legacy. Continue watching
Jun 11 Rupert Murdoch to step down as CEO of 21st Century Fox By News Desk Australian American business magnate Rupert Murdoch is leaving his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox and turning over the mass media corporation to his son James, according to an announcement on Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 6:00 Why are Russian trolls spreading online hoaxes in the U.S.? By PBS News Hour In St. Petersburg, a shadowy Russian organization called the Internet Research Agency hires trolls to spread propaganda and hoaxes online. Jeffrey Brown interviews Adrian Chen of The New York Times Magazine about what he’s discovered about the group. Continue watching
Jun 06 Watch 3:37 Is Gawker's vote to unionize a turning point for Internet culture? By PBS News Hour For the first time ever, workers at a major online media outlet, Gawker Media, voted earlier this week in a landslide to unionize. Gabriel Arana, senior media editor at The Huffington Post, joins Alison Stewart to discuss. Continue watching