Tag: NewsHour
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• The Women’s Media Center, an advocacy group for women in media, has released a report about gender inequality in media. It found ...“f gwenifill”? Former pubmedia consultant’s Twitter mistake results in bizarre messages
Several news organizations’ Twitter accounts, including some public media accounts, emitted a deluge of cryptic messages reading “f gwenifill” today. The tweets ...NewsHour founders to transfer ownership
The decision by retired founders Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil, which has the approval of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (MLP) majority owner Liberty Media, ...PubTV commits to weekend news show
Public TV stations are backing PBS’s first foray into weekend news by committing airtime to PBS NewsHour Weekend, which debuts next month, although several ...Off-duty deputy charged with murder in NewsHour shuttle driver shooting
Craig Patterson, the Sheriff's deputy in Arlington County, Va., who allegedly shot and killed PBS NewsHour shuttle driver Julian Dawkins May 22 ...NewsHour gives party conventions 18 hours, assigns female anchor team
With the NewsHour's Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff stepping into co-anchor roles for PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, producers ...Producers invited to crowdsource the translation of their programs
Universal Subtitles, a project of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, is looking for long-form public media projects to translate into multiple languages ...Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the ...Lehrer hands off anchor role to reporting team
Jim Lehrer, who has reported the news of the day for more than 50 years, became part of it May 12 when ...For NewsHour, one staff is stronger than two
They busted down newsroom walls, adding some space but much more humanity, doubling the number of desks, adding new editing stations and ...Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted ...Jim Lehrer takes his own advice: Make sure it matters to you
Two decades ago, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil gave public television a kind of news program that contrasted greatly with the aims of ...
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