Mar 23 Here’s why the vote on the Republican health care bill was delayed By Lisa Desjardins The House GOP’s plan to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law has gone through a dramatic ebb and flow on Capitol Hill. Continue reading
Mar 14 Photos: Inside an Arizona immigration court By Joshua Barajas As part of an ongoing reporting trip, the PBS NewsHour's Joshua Barajas witnessed the proceedings of Operation Streamline inside a Tucson, Arizona courtroom on Monday. Continue reading
Feb 09 The unseen workers who guided the Senate through marathon nominee sessions By Lisa Desjardins The Senate held back-to-back overnight sessions this week, forcing U.S. Capitol Building workers to put in long shifts during debates over Cabinet nominees. Continue reading
Nov 22 What I learned reporting in the wake of Paris’s deadliest hours since WWII By Stephen Fee Journalists who find themselves covering a tragic story as it unfolds often hear a nagging voice in their heads: What am I doing that’s different? Am I telling my audience anything they don’t already know? Are my questions, is my… Continue reading
Jun 15 Reporting from Cuba, a place frozen in time yet full of potential By Jeffrey Brown Deciding to go to Cuba was the easy part, for all the obvious reasons: the history, the politics, the culture, the place, the fact of it being — the cliché is true — so close and yet so far away. Continue reading
Jan 30 How do you count a city’s homeless population? You walk the streets By Colleen Shalby Nearly 300 volunteers have until 2 a.m. to find and survey every homeless person they can find on the streets of Washington, D.C. It’s part of Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual point-in-time count of the homeless. Continue reading
Jan 30 ‘Isn’t that Keanu Reeves?’ and other phrases overheard at Sundance By Jeffrey Brown Despite the hoopla and the frenzied celebrity sightings, Sundance is still about the films. But what happens to all these movies after Sundance?… Continue reading
Jan 26 That time I ended up in a womb with a baby and other virtual reality ‘immersions’ By Jeffrey Brown This was in the New Frontier exhibition that’s showcasing a new world of virtual reality technology and its use in filmmaking. There was plenty of video game-like ‘immersion,’ Filmmakers are beginning to think through how to tell a complex story… Continue reading
Jan 23 Reporter’s Notebook: Back at Sundance By Jeffrey Brown Chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown returns to Sundance to report on several stories for the NewsHour on the state of independent filmmaking. Continue reading
Sep 22 Reporter’s Notebook: Covering Ebola in Nigeria while navigating corruption By Fred de Sam Lazaro The story of Ebola in Nigeria is an unusual and frankly rare one about things going right somewhere in Africa, albeit with fingers crossed for fear that it could quickly change. The numbers are remarkable: just 21 cases of Ebola… Continue reading