Dec 16 New King on the Block: Piers Morgan Joins CNN Cable mainstay Larry King's CNN show ends Thursday after 25 years. His successor, British talk-show host Piers Morgan, might be an unfamiliar face to many American viewers, but he's been a major player in the U.K. media scene for decades. Continue reading
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading
Dec 10 On Friday’s NewsHour: Nobel Peace Prize, Shields and Brooks NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN ABSENTIA | Liu Xiaobo, serving an 11-year sentence in China for releasing a pro-democracy document, was honored at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Jeffrey Brown has more. NEWS WRAP | Hari Sreenivasan recap's the… Continue reading
Dec 10 Nobel Chairman Calls for Liu Xiaobo’s Release, Peace Prize Awarded in Absentia The Nobel Peace Prize committee honored Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence in China for his 2008 document calling for democracy, at a ceremony in Norway. Xiaobo was represented on the stage by an empty chair. Nobel Chairman… Continue reading
Dec 09 Join Hari Sreenivasan at 2 p.m. ET Thursday for Live Chat on Reddit Did you ever want to know more about correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, the man behind the NewsHour broadcast's daily news wrap and many of the video reports on our website? Hari will answer questions on… Continue reading
Dec 09 TEDWomen Summit Highlights How Females Are Reshaping the Future They're the presentations that your friends forward you through an e-mail or social network, the ones where you drift off for 18 minutes into the dream worlds of scientists, the powerful stories of social activists and or talks by plain,… Continue reading
Dec 06 WikiLeaks Confronts More Legal, Funding and Hacker Challenges In the week since WikiLeaks began releasing a trove of diplomatic cables, the site has been attacked by hackers and senators, been kicked off Amazon's cloud-hosting… Continue reading
Dec 03 One-Week Wonders: We Pay Attention So You Don’t Have To By Gwen Ifill I have a new theory. Let me know what you think about it. Has it occurred to anyone lately that so many of the things we obsess about turn out to be stories that last for - give or take… Continue reading
Dec 03 WikiLeaks Stays Visible, But Is Net Closing In? The cat-and-mouse game between WikiLeaks and its detractors continues. The site found itself without a domain name after its registrar, EveryDNS shut down WikiLeaks.org Thursday night, saying attacks on the site were threatening other customers. More… Continue reading
Dec 03 The Festival of Lights: Hanukkah Stories From Across the Nation (Photo courtesy Joseph Palmer) Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem, began on Wednesday. The Festival of Lights lasts eight days. Below we highlight some of the stories about the holiday from… Continue reading