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
May 24 How Developed Is Your ‘Arrested Development’ Knowledge? Do you know the name of this infamous puppet? Test your knowledge of characters and situations in our "Arrested Development" quiz below. "Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no… Continue reading
May 21 Group Seeks Help From Social Networks to Combat Hate Speech By Larisa Epatko Social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter have helped users mobilize around a common cause like never before. But what if their message is one of hate?… Continue reading
May 20 Watch Yahoo Makes Bid for Reboot With $1.1 Billion Deal for Popular Blog Site Tumblr Yahoo Makes Bid for Reboot With $1.1 Billion Deal for Popular Blog Site Tumblr… Continue watching
May 17 A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings EmbedVideo(6481, 482, 304); The Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973. Public Television aired all 250 hours of testimony that summer. Here are some of the highlights. Video edited by Justin Scuiletti The Watergate scandal began with a… Continue reading