Economy Nov 04 Watch 5:25 News Wrap: Unemployment rate drops below 5 percent In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added a net 161,000 jobs in October, dipping the unemployment rate a tenth of a percent to 4.9. Also, there are guilty verdicts in New Jersey Governor Chris… By PBS News Hour
Nation Oct 26 ‘Jackie’ of retracted Rolling Stone story says PTSD fogged memory The former University of Virginia student, whose account of a campus rape was the center of a retracted Rolling Stone article, said she suffered from PTSD. By Alison Thoet
Nation Oct 18 Two years after debunked campus rape story, former UVA dean takes Rolling Stone to trial Rolling Stone headed to trial today for a defamation case over their portrayal of an University of Virginia dean in a discredited article of brutal gang rape. A statement from the student at the center of the article contradicts the… By Alison Thoet
Nation Jan 11 Watch 5:42 The ethics of Sean Penn’s ‘El Chapo’ conversation Before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was recaptured by Mexican authorities, the American movie star and activist Sean Penn met with Mexico’s most wanted man in a jungle hideaway to interview him for Rolling Stone magazine. William Brangham discusses the… By PBS News Hour
Jan 10 Sean Penn met secretly with drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman By Elisabeth Ponsot In an interview with Sean Penn secretly conducted last year, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman admitted he was the world's largest supplier of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. Continue reading
May 12 Watch 4:23 News Wrap: Kerry and Putin meet in Russia to discuss Ukraine, Syria By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry met face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, to discuss divisions over Ukraine, Syria and other issues. Also, Iran announced that its warships will escort a cargo ship… Continue watching
May 12 UVA official sues Rolling Stone for libel over debunked campus rape story By Joshua Barajas The University of Virginia is suing the company that owns Rolling Stone, the magazine itself and a reporter for libel after Rolling Stone published an erroneous and now-retracted article about gang rape on the college campus, according to Reuters. Continue reading
Apr 10 Gwen’s Take: Truth, justice and the American way By Gwen Ifill The best journalists can do is try to scrub our inbred biases (we all have them) by asking more questions. All the time. Every time. This is nearly impossible to do if you have already decided you know the answer. Continue reading
Apr 06 Watch 13:40 How Rolling Stone got the UVA sexual assault story so wrong By PBS News Hour A new report scrutinizes the many layers of error uncovered in a Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Gwen Ifill talks to Steve Coll of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about… Continue watching