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Les Crystal’s NewsHour legacy as a great boss and a friend
Les Crystal was a man at the heart of the NewsHour family. After a 20-year career at NBC, Les joined Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil in 1983, overseeing the transformation of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report into the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour -- the…
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News Wrap: Pope ends Myanmar visit without naming Rohingya
In our news wrap Wednesday, Pope Francis ended his trip to Myanmar without publicly mentioning Buddhist violence against Rohingya Muslims. Also, Croatian defendant Slobodan Praljak fatally poisoned himself in a stunning end to the Bosnian war crimes trials.
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Will new tools help Facebook users get the facts on fake news?
During the last three months of the campaign, fake news headlines drew more engagement than real reporting, and social media platforms were criticized for not doing enough to dispute false information. Now Facebook is launching new tools to help identify…
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The ‘thin legitimacy’ of social media as a news source
Due to the proliferation of social media, getting people to read serious journalism is harder than ever, says New York University professor Jay Rosen. Anyone with a smartphone can produce content, and Facebook doesn’t have an editor in chief --…
Veteran journalist Morley Safer died at age 84 after a period of declining health, CBS News reported Thursday.
Thursday on the NewsHour, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl breaks his silence just as the controversy of his release is reignited. Also: How a landmark No Child Left Behind rewrite could change public schools, Yazidi refugees risk danger for a European…
Don't believe everything you see tweeted, shared or posted about the millennial generation being uninformed. A sizable group of these young adults — 4 of every 10 — actively seeks out the news, an analysis of their media habits finds.
In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, 555,000 archival newsreel videos are being released by the Associated Press and British Movietone -- that's more than a million minutes of historic footage and quirky diversions, dating back to 1895.
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