Jun 10 Watch Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture: ‘Death Was Like a Desire’ Thousands of Iranians took to the streets in 2009 as part of the Green Movement to protest a disputed presidential election. The government crackdown that followed included some women being imprisoned, tortured and raped. This report shares some of their… Continue watching
Jun 10 Gwen’s Take: Washington Follies, June Edition Gwen Ifill looks back at the week that was in politics and media in Gwen's Take. Continue reading
Jun 07 30 Years of HIV/AIDS: Progress, but No Answer By Maureen Hoch This week marks 30 years that the HIV virus has been with us. Continue reading
Jun 02 Watch New York Times’ Abramson on Role as First Female Top Editor, Challenges Ahead New York Times Names First Woman to Executive Editor Job… Continue watching
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