The New York Times’ Shayla Harris Joins FRONTLINE
Shayla Harris, an award-winning producer and journalist who has helped to lead The New York Times’ video efforts for nearly a decade, is joining FRONTLINE (PBS) as senior producer for digital video.
June 23, 2015
June 30: "Growing Up Trans" | Press Release + Trailer
On June 30, a 90-minute FRONTLINE special explores the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents.
June 10, 2015
Coming in June on FRONTLINE
This month on FRONTLINE: What life is like for children who are "Growing Up Trans." Plus, an investigation uncovering the scourge of "Rape on the Night Shift."
June 4, 2015
WATCH: Pentagon Had No Plan for When ISIS Took Mosul, Dempsey Says
The Pentagon had no contingency plan in place when ISIS seized control of Iraq's second largest city in 2014, says Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, in an interview for the new FRONTLINE documentary "Obama at War."
May 26, 2015
"The President Blinked": Why Obama Changed Course on the "Red Line" in Syria
When a chemical weapons attack struck near Damascus in 2013, "our finger was on the trigger" to start airstrikes, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells FRONTLINE. But then, the president had second thoughts.
May 25, 2015
Why You Never Saw The CIA's Interrogation Tapes
When videotapes depicting "enhanced interrogations" of two Al Qaeda suspects in CIA detention were destroyed, even the agency's own lawyer says he was shocked.
May 19, 2015
WATCH: How the CIA Helped Make "Zero Dark Thirty"
The blockbuster reflected the CIA's narrative that "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- widely criticized as torture -- were key in finding and killing Osama bin Laden. But was that version of history true?
May 15, 2015
News on the Future of FRONTLINE
Raney Aronson will become the new executive producer of FRONTLINE, succeeding David Fanning, who founded the award-winning investigative documentary series and is stepping away after three decades.
May 13, 2015
WATCH: When It Comes to Food Safety, How a Whole Chicken Differs From the Sum of Its Parts
Eighty percent of chicken sold today has been cut up into parts -- a process that can release salmonella buried in the skin. But government inspections mainly focus on whole chickens.
May 12, 2015
FRONTLINE Wins Two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
"Solitary Nation," a documentary about the raw reality of life in solitary confinement, and "Firestone and the Warlord," an investigation of the iconic tire company's secret history in Liberia — have won 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.
May 11, 2015
FRONTLINE, Brown Institute Team Up to Support New Immersive Documentary Project
Called "Recipe for a Famine," the project is one of eight "Magic Grant" winners announced Monday by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.
May 11, 2015
Inside the Fast-Food Scandal That Changed How Beef Is Regulated
More than 20 years ago, four children were killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157 -- a dangerous strain of bacteria that was linked back to undercooked hamburgers from Jack in the Box fast food restaurants.
May 11, 2015