Jun 01 Woodruff: Calculating the Cost of an Attempt to Silence the Press By PBS News Hour Senior correspondent Judy Woodruff writes about this week's hacking attacks on PBS websites and overcoming efforts to silence a free press. Continue reading
May 30 PBS Sites Hacked; Readers’ Data Not Compromised Late Sunday, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS' web servers and published a fake news story on the PBS NewsHour's news blog, The Rundown, about late rapper Tupac Shakur being spotted alive in New Zealand. Continue reading
May 25 Watch Journalist Foley Details 6 Weeks of Captivity in Libya: ‘I Could Make it’ GlobalPost correspondent and producer James Foley was captured and imprisoned for six weeks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces while reporting in Libya. Foley discusses his experiences in captivity and his take on the Libyan uprising with Ray Suarez. Continue watching
May 25 The Oprah Effect, by the Numbers As Oprah wraps up her daily talk show Wednesday, it's tough to overstate the cultural force known as the Oprah Effect, permeating everything from the TV business to books and magazines to charity to outright promotion of commercial products. Continue reading
May 24 Frontline Explores Life of Bradley Manning, Story Behind WikiLeaks By Lauren Knapp // In the spring of 2010, more than 500,000 classified documents, including secret diplomatic cables and war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan, appeared on the WikiLeaks website in what was the largest intelligence breach in American history. U.S. Army Intelligence… Continue reading
May 20 Watch Geena Davis on her Quest for Gender Equity in Film and Television Geena Davis talks to Simon Marks about gender equity on screen. Continue watching
May 20 Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT’s Media Lab By Elizabeth Shell By Diane Lincoln-Estes and Elizabeth Shell We recently visited the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for our story on George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen's ebook, "The Great Stagnation." Cowen argues that our economy is… Continue reading
May 19 Woodruff: Private Lives, Public Officials and Media Maelstroms Every day we in the news media have to make judgment calls. They come in all shapes and sizes, some obviously more difficult than others. One of the most sensitive is how to handle the private lives of… Continue reading
May 13 Watch Robert MacNeil on Jim Lehrer’s ‘Stealth’ Exit Jim Lehrer announced Thursday that he is taking another step toward ending his 36 years of anchoring or co-anchoring out daily public television news broadcast. Long-time colleague and friend, Robert MacNeil offers this reflection. Continue watching
May 13 Jim Lehrer: The Video Highlights By Mike Fritz Jim Lehrer announced this week that he's stepping back from daily anchor and co-anchor duties on the PBS NewsHour - so we decided to take a look back at some highlights from his 52 years in journalism and his… Continue reading