Oct 01 Status Update: Facebook-Inspired Film ‘The Social Network’ Opens Last week, the NewsHour looked at "The Social Network", a film -- opening across the country on Friday -- about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. EmbedVideo(3430, 482, 304); Much has been written about how… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Rutgers Student’s Suicide Prompts Privacy, Cyber-Bullying Debates Ray Suarez looks at the varied reactions to the suicide of a student at Rutgers University and the legal questions it raises. Continue watching
Sep 28 Any Hour Can Be Your NewsHour: Download Our New iPhone App Thanks to all of those who waited -- and those who nudged, pushed and shoved for us to go mobile. We quietly rolled out a test version of our iPhone app a few weeks ago and more than 70,000 of… Continue reading
Sep 27 No Blaring: MacNeil on Emmy, Keeping a Reasonable Tone in Broadcast News Recently, a man stopped me as I passed him on West 43rd Street in Manhattan. He was wearing a denim work shirt with the number of the building where he worked embroidered over the pocket. He said, "I just… Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch Proposal Could Expand Government’s Web Wiretapping Efforts Potential new regulations could make it easier for federal officials to wiretap online communications, raising privacy concerns. Ray Suarez gets two views on the idea. Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch Facebook’s Zuckerberg Lands in the Spotlight Amid Movie Flak, School Donation Facebook C.E.O Gives Back to Low-Income Schools… Continue watching
Sep 24 Gwen’s Take: Telling Our Stories Two women I know have recently written terrific books that could easily have never seen the light of day. By complete serendipity, each is a former colleague and friend. Isabel Wilkerson and I were both reporters for the New York… Continue reading
Sep 22 Former Presidents and the Press There is no set pattern to the lives led by former presidents, but there is arguably a pattern to the way they relate to the press. It goes roughly like this: either 1) they avoid reporters, and are happy to… Continue reading
Sep 22 Book Details White House Split Over Afghanistan; Egg Recall Hearing Ahead President Obama "urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him," according to a new book by Washington Post… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch Mexico’s Drug War Putting Reporters, Journalism in the Crosshairs A young photographer for Juarez's El Diario newspaper was gunned down as he walked to lunch, prompting his newspaper to ask of Mexico's drug cartels on the front page what they expect of journalists. Ray Suarez speaks with Angela Kocherga… Continue watching