Jul 01 Hari Sreenivasan Answers Your Questions During a Reddit ‘AMA’ By News Desk, Hari Sreenivasan Join Hari Sreenivasan for a reddit "Ask me Anything" 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday. PBS NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan will host a reddit "Ask Me Anything" beginning at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday. Sreenivasan joined the NewsHour in December 2009 as… Continue reading
Jun 26 Social Media Makes Texas Politics a National Affair State Sen. Wendy Davis holds up two fingers against the anti-abortion bill SB5, which was up for a vote on the last day of the legislative special session in Austin, Texas. Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images. Last night,… Continue reading
Jun 19 Highlights from Gwen Ifill’s Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ Gwen Ifill will host a reddit AMA starting 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. Gwen Ifill answered your questions on reddit during her first "Ask Me Anything" session Thursday afternoon. Ifill is a senior correspondent for "PBS NewsHour" and… Continue reading
Jun 17 PBS NewsHour Expands With ‘PBS NewsHour Weekend’ Starting Sept. 7, the PBS NewsHour is expanding its family, adding a "NewsHour Weekend" newscast on Saturdays and Sundays. The 30-minute show will be anchored by veteran NewsHour correspondent and director of digital partnerships, Hari Sreenivasan. Continue reading
Jun 14 NewsHour: Not Just a TV Show In a recent New York Times article, media reporter Elizabeth Jensen underscored the financial and new media challenges faced by the PBS NewsHour. Jensen cited anonymous public television sources who critiqued the NewsHour's broadcast format and its website:… Continue reading
Jun 13 Is the NewsHour Worth Saving? PBS NewsHour senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff anchored 50 hours of live coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in 2012. TV critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun used recent news of layoffs at the PBS… Continue reading
Jun 04 Live Chat With Jeffrey Brown Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reporting on the Watergate scandal laid the groundwork for what would become the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, known today as the PBS NewsHour. Jeffrey Brown interviews ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Over the next… Continue reading
May 28 Live Chat with PBS NewsHour Correspondents By News Desk Now is your chance to ask the PBS NewsHour senior correspondents anything you want. Tweet your questions to @NewsHour. Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reported on the Watergate scandal. Their coverage laid the groundwork for… Continue reading
May 24 Watch On Netflix, Streaming Entertainment Is New ‘Development’ for Traditional TV Netflix's New 'Development' for Streaming Entertainment… Continue watching
May 24 Does Technology Offer Anyone a Big Break in Entertainment Industry? Changes in technology have opened up new opportunities in the entertainment industry, offering platforms for the most scrappy or eclectic of musicians, filmmakers and other creative artists. That's the argument of a new book, "The End of Big: How the… Continue reading