Nation Mar 12 Student Reporting Labs speaks with the U.S. surgeon general on youth mental health By Briget Ganske, Jaylah Moore-Ross
Nation Aug 29 Watch 6:36 Podcast ‘The Retrievals’ reveals painful experiences of female patients are often ignored A new podcast is bringing to light the abuses suffered at a fertility clinic at Yale. In 2020, a nurse secretly replaced vials of an opioid used to reduce pain during egg retrievals with saline solution. That meant the women… By Lisa Desjardins, Courtney Norris
Nation Jul 12 Watch 8:28 ‘The 13th Step’ podcast investigates sexual abuse in substance recovery community New Hampshire’s largest substance abuse treatment network has helped tens of thousands of drug users loosen addiction’s hold over their lives. But a three-year investigation by a local journalist uncovered evidence the group's founder took advantage of his position and… By Ali Rogin, Kyle Midura, Ian Couzens
Nation Dec 05 Watch 7:29 After 23 years wrongly imprisoned, Ricky Kidd is free — and using his voice The exoneration of Ricky Kidd, a wrongly convicted man in Missouri who spent more than two decades in prison, highlights major problems with U.S. criminal justice. As covered in our Broken Justice podcast, Kidd was freed largely due to pro…
Nation Nov 06 Watch 5:47 In Missouri, why relying on a public defender can mean you slip through the cracks A new podcast from the NewsHour examines the public defender system in the United States — and the enormous gaps and problems that undermine its effectiveness. Amna Nawaz and producer Frank Carlson reported from Missouri for this five-part series, and…
Apr 24 Here’s how to listen to PBS NewsHour’s podcasts By Dan Cooney There are many ways to listen to our new series from Antarctica and the parts of our show that are already available in podcast format. Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch 7:38 What’s next for popular podcast ‘Ear Hustle,’ now that co-host has left prison By Jeffrey Brown In 2017, the NewsHour reported on the first podcast produced entirely from inside of a prison. “Ear Hustle” offers a rare look at inmate experiences, from race relations to sharing a tiny cell. One of the show’s co-hosts was released… Continue watching
Jan 03 Watch 3:31 Writer Ashley Ford on the childhood letters that afforded her self esteem Writing shaped Ashley Ford's life since childhood, when she confided secrets to her journal and clung to the emotional letters her father sent from prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for rape. Now a professional writer, Ford offers… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch 3:14 How ‘2 Dope Queens’ co-host Phoebe Robinson found her place in comedy By PBS News Hour Stand-up comedian Phoebe Robinson almost quit the business when she felt like she didn’t belong in the male-dominated comedy world. But finding her niche with the podcast “2 Dope Queens” helped her realize that being different isn’t a bad thing. Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch 2:57 What it means to be unapologetically black By PBS News Hour As the hosts of BuzzFeed's popular “Another Round” podcast, Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton set out to break the mold and create a space where they didn’t have to filter their opinions for a white audience. Nigatu and Clayton give… Continue watching