Dec 30 Watch Charities Look to Social Media to Turn Friends Into Funders Americans are expected to have given roughly $300 billion in charitable donations in 2010 with individuals making up $220 billion of that. For a closer look at the role of social media in philanthropy and its limitations, Ray Suarez speaks… Continue watching
Dec 24 A Christmas Reading List Workers in Santa Claus and reindeer costumes clean windows outside a building at the Odaiba shopping mall on Tokyo’s waterfront on December 23, 2010. The costumes were worn as part of a Christmas promotional event to attract shoppers. Continue reading
Dec 23 Watch Gary Trudeau Reflects on 40 Years of Drawing 'Doonesbury' It's been 40 years since Garry Trudeau first drew the popular comic strip "Doonesbury." The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist speaks with Jeffrey Brown about a new book chronicling his decades of work. Continue watching
Dec 23 Hallelujah! A Global Mash-up of Handel's 'Messiah' The journalists who bring you The Rundown blog were debating last week what gift we could give you, our loyal readers, for the holidays. One thing sprang to mind that is almost universally enjoyed this time of year:… Continue reading
Dec 23 Geeking Out on Words Just Got Easier ({ "base_state": {}, "video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBAvG6PZp5Y", video_config: { width: 480, height: 303} }) With the release of Google Books Ngram Viewer, diving through the rise and fall of a word's usage across 5.2 million books spanning several… Continue reading
Dec 22 UConn Women Win Place in College Basketball History The University of Connecticut women's team broke the record Tuesday for the longest NCAA Division I basketball winning streak, surpassing the John Wooden led-UCLA men's teams of 1971-74 . In front of a sold-out home crowd, the Huskies… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch Cuba's Emphasis on Preventive Medicine Ray Suarez continues his series from Havana with a report on the Cuban health care system's emphasis on preventive medicine. Continue watching
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