Apr 21 Watch AP Photojournalist Documents ‘Horror Show,’ Aftermath of Gulf Coast Oil Spill Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert's work captured the environmental and personal toll of the Deepwater Horizen oil spill along the Gulf Coast. Herbert narrates a slide show of his images from the spill's early days and the subsequent struggle to… Continue watching
Apr 20 Photographer, Filmmaker Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington has been reported killed Wednesday in Misrata, Libya, in a mortar attack. Continue reading
Apr 18 Newspapers’ Haiti Earthquake, Russia Coverage Among Latest Pulitzer Prizes The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon, recognizing achievement in journalism and the arts. The prestigious awards are administered by Columbia University. View the full list of winners, and links to the stories, here. Among the… Continue reading
Apr 12 Social Media Curation Tool Storyful Helps Separate News From Noise EmbedVideo(325, 482, 304); An average of 155 million tweets are posted on the social networking site Twitter each day, the social media giant tweeted last week. In just one minute, an average of 35 hours of… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Social Media Curation Tool Separates News From Noise Startup Storyful explores how to separate the news from the noise in social media. Continue watching
Apr 01 Watch New York Times Journalists Recall ‘Medieval’ Captivity in Libya Journalists Recall 'Medieval' Captivity Experience in Libya… Continue watching
Apr 01 Robert MacNeil Returns to NewsHour for Autism Now Series For the first time in more than 15 years, Robert MacNeil is returning to the program he co-founded, with a major series of reports on Autism Now. The subject that drew him back is one that resonates deeply with his… Continue reading
Mar 28 Reporter’s Notebook: My Brush with Chinese Censorship By Jeffrey Kaye During our recently-concluded 11 day reporting trip in China, our work was relatively unimpeded. We had access to top officials, critics of the government, members of the public, and we worked without a government minder. Sure, as expected, various web… Continue reading
Mar 21 On Twitter’s 5th Birthday, a Look Back at Memorable NewsHour Tweets With Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the first tweets, we're taking a look back at how the NewsHour team has experimented with and used Twitter to share news and analysis, plus create new ways to keep the… Continue reading
Mar 17 With New York Times’ New Paywall, Will Readers Still Flock to Site? Given the New York Times' size, reputation and blemished record on previous efforts to charge for online content, it only made sense that the newspaper's Thursday announcement of a new paywall system would be the subject of close scrutiny… Continue reading