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PBS NewsHour

February 16, 2024

PBS NewsHour is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Since January 2, 2023, the one-hour weekday editions have been anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. The 30-minute weekend editions, branded as PBS News Weekend, have been anchored by John Yang since December 31, 2022.

PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour logo used since 2017
Also known as
  • The Robert MacNeil Report (1975–1976)
  • The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1976–1983)
  • The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (1983–1995)
  • The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer (1995–2009)
  • PBS NewsHour Weekend (weekend editions, 2013–2022)
  • PBS News Weekend (weekend editions, 2022–present)
  • PBS NewsHour West (western edition)
GenreNews program
Created by
Directed by
  • Joseph Camp (weekday editions)
  • Chip Hirzel (weekend editions)
Presented byWeekdays:
Weekends:
Theme music composer
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Sara Just (weekday editions)
  • Rachel Wellford (weekend editions)
Production locations
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time
  • 60 minutes (1983–present, weekday editions)
  • 30 minutes (1975–1983, weekday editions; 2013–present, weekend editions)
Production companies
  • WNET (weekday editions, 1975–1995; weekend editions, 2013–2022)
  • WETA-TV (weekday editions, 1995–present; weekend editions, 2022–present)
  • MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (1981–2014)
  • NewsHour Productions (2014–present)
Original release
NetworkPBS
ReleaseOctober 20, 1975 (1975-10-20) –
present

The broadcasts are produced by PBS member station WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., and originates from its studio facilities in Arlington County, Virginia. Since 2019, news updates inserted into the weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in the Western United States, online, and late at night have been anchored by Stephanie Sy, originating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Additional production facilities for the program are based in San Francisco and Denver.[2] The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV and PBS member station WNET in New York City, along with KQED in San Francisco, KETC in St. Louis, and WTTW in Chicago.

The program debuted in 1975 as The Robert MacNeil Report before being renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report one year later. It was anchored by Robert MacNeil from WNET's studios and Jim Lehrer from WETA's studios. In 1983, the show was rebranded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and then The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer following MacNeil's departure in 1995. It was then renamed to its current PBS NewsHour title in 2009, two years before Lehrer left in 2011. Originally, the program only aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in 2013. Production of the weekend broadcasts were solely produced by WNET,[3] before the New York City station transferred all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA in April 2022.[4]

History edit

Ownership edit

In September 1981, production of the program was taken over by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a partnership between Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, and Gannett; the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986. John C. Malone's Liberty Media bought a 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994,[5][6] but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control.[7] In 2014, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, owned by MacNeil, Lehrer, and Liberty Media announced its donation, as NewsHour Productions LLC, to WETA-TV as a nonprofit subsidiary.[8][9]

The Robert MacNeil Report and The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1975–1983) edit

External videos
  The Robert MacNeil Report; 19; New York City and C367 Bailout, segment starts at 2:45,
November 13, 1975,
NewsHour Productions and American Archive of Public Broadcasting[10]

In 1973, Robert MacNeil (a former NBC News correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's Washington Week in Review) and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover the United States Senate's Watergate hearings for PBS. They earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage.[11]

This recognition led to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, a half-hour local news program on WNET, which debuted on October 20, 1975; each episode of the program covered a single issue in depth. On December 1, 1975, the program began to air on PBS stations nationwide. It was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on September 6, 1976.[12] Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil based in New York City and Lehrer at WETA's studios in Arlington, Virginia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined the series as a correspondent in 1978, serving as a substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off. She became the series' national correspondent in 1983.

 
The final title sequence as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, used from May 17, 2006, to December 4, 2009

The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer (1983–2009) edit

Having decided to start competing with the nightly news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC instead of complementing them, the program expanded to one hour on September 5, 1983,[13] incorporating other changes, such as the introduction of "documentary reportage from the field";[14] it became known at that time as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Lester Crystal was its founding executive producer. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions twice planned to launch late-night newscasts in 1995 and 1999; in both instances, the proposed expansions—which, respectively, were to have involved production and newsgathering partnerships with Wall Street Journal Television and The New York Times—were canceled mid-development.[15]

MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor. (Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.[16]) Accordingly, the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on October 23.[17] On January 16, 1996, The NewsHour announced the creation of its official website at PBS Online.[18] The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers.[19] On May 17, 1999, The NewsHour adopted a new graphics package with refreshed music from 1983, plus the new studio with a blue globe in the middle. On October 4, 1999, Gwen Ifill joined The NewsHour team as a new correspondent. She was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television.[20] Effective January 17, 2000, The NewsHour added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen for a three-year agreement through April 22, 2003.[21][22][23] For only the website, the program took effect on April 23, 2003.[24] On March 3, 2003, the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning.[25] On November 17, 2003, The NewsHour added music in the beginning with dates.[26]

On May 17, 2006, the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years, adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of its theme music (originally composed by Bernard Hoffer).[27][28] On December 17, 2007,[29][30][31] the NewsHour became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition (after NBC Nightly News on March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in a letterboxed format for viewers with standard-definition television sets watching via either cable or satellite television. The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD.

PBS NewsHour edit

Departure of Jim Lehrer and switch to co-anchors (2009–2013) edit

 
Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff at the 2012 Republican National Convention

On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year[32] under a revised title, the PBS NewsHour.[33] In addition to increased integration between the NewsHour website and nightly broadcast, the updated production returned to a two-anchor format.[34] Lehrer described the overhaul as the first phase in his move toward retirement.

On September 27, 2010, PBS NewsHour was presented with the Chairman's Award at the 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with MacNeil, Lehrer, Crystal, and former executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show's behalf.[35]

Lehrer formally ended his tenure as a regular anchor of the program on June 6, 2011. He continued to occasionally anchor on Fridays, when he usually led the political analysis segment with Mark Shields and David Brooks, until December 30, 2011.[36]

Transfer of production, expansion to weekends and the west (2013–present) edit

 
Judy Woodruff interviewing US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on September 18, 2013

On August 6, 2013, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of the NewsHour.[37] They shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions, with Woodruff anchoring solo on Fridays due to Ifill's duties as host of the political discussion program Washington Week, which was also produced Friday evenings.[38]

For much of its history, the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Friday, but in March 2013, plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development.[39] Weekend editions of the NewsHour premiered on September 7, 2013, with Hari Sreenivasan serving as anchor. Although they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were branded PBS NewsHour Weekend for the duration of WNET's involvement with the program. From the weekend broadcasts' debut until the March 27, 2022 edition, the Saturday and Sunday editions originated from the Tisch/WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, as opposed to the program's main production facilities at the Arlington, Virginia, studios of WETA-TV.[40][41]

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the show's staffers on October 8, 2013, that it had offered to transfer ownership in the PBS NewsHour to WETA. In the letter, Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with the program's production since their departures from anchoring, as well as "the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities."[42][43] WETA's board of trustees approved the transfer on June 17, 2014, and it took effect on July 1. At that time, NewsHour Productions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of WETA, took over production of the program. WETA also acquired MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' archives, documentaries, and projects, though not the company's name. PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET.[7]

On July 20, 2015, the PBS NewsHour introduced an overhauled visual appearance for its weekday broadcasts, debuting a new minimalist set designed by Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS's longtime "Everyman" logo (the network revised its brand identity in 2019;[44][45] the program has thus far not made any changes to incorporate it). The program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by Edd Kalehoff, which incorporates a reorchestration of the nine-note "Question and Answer" musical signature that has been featured in the program's theme since its premiere in 1975 and a musical signature originally incorporated into the Kalehoff-composed theme for the Nightly Business Report used from 2002 to 2010.[46][47][48][49] PBS NewsHour Weekend retained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert until August 29, 2015, when it transitioned to the same theme music and a reworked version of the graphics package used for the weekday broadcasts.

Ifill took brief breaks from her NewsHour anchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 (and was also absent from the program's presidential election coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage breast and endometrial cancer. After her death was announced on November 14, 2016, that evening's edition of the PBS NewsHour was dedicated to Ifill and her influence on journalism, featuring tributes from Woodruff, Sreenivasan, former colleagues and program contributors (news content was relegated to the standard news summary, which aired during the second half-hour).[50][51][52][53][54] Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff went on to become sole anchor.

In 2018, The Plastic Problem aired, which then went on to win a Peabody Award,[55] presented at the 2019 awards ceremony.

On October 14, 2019, PBS NewsHour launched "PBS NewsHour West", a Western United States bureau at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. Anchored by Stephanie Sy, the bureau produces its own news summary with up-to-date information on events that develop after the original broadcast. A version of the program with this summary is shown to viewers in the Western United States and to online and East Coast viewers watching re-broadcasts.[56]

On April 2, 2022, WETA assumed production responsibilities for the NewsHour's Saturday and Sunday editions, which concurrently began originating from the studio at the station's Washington facility used for the weekday broadcasts. The broadcasts were retitled PBS News Weekend, omitting "NewsHour" in view of their shorter duration. NewsHour Productions transferred production of the weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, allowing the weekday and weekend NewsHour broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with Washington Week (which is also produced by WETA-TV). Coinciding with the move, the weekend editions began carrying feature segments covering culture and the arts. Sreenivasan (who remains a New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for the PBS news discussion program Amanpour & Company) was replaced as weekend anchor by NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett.[4] As of December 31, 2022, John Yang anchors the weekend program.

On May 13, 2022, Woodruff announced to NewsHour staffers that she would step down as anchor at the end of the year, though she intends to continue reporting longer pieces for the program while doing projects and specials for WETA through the 2024 United States presidential election at the earliest. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were named Woodruff's successors.[57] Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30, 2022.[58] Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co-anchors on January 2, 2023.

Production and ratings edit

 
Behind the scenes at The NewsHour, during a Gen. Peter Pace interview on November 7, 2005

The program is notable for being shown on public television. There are no interruptions for advertisements (though like most public television programs, there are "corporate image" advertisements at the beginning and end of each broadcast, as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate to their local PBS member station or member network during locally produced pledge drives, which are replaced by encore presentations of a select story segment from the past year for stations that not holding a drive during that time).

The program has a more deliberate pace than the news broadcasts of the commercial networks it competes against, allowing for deeper detail in its story packages and feature segments. At the start of the program, the lead story is covered in depth, followed by a news summary that lasts roughly between six and eight minutes, briefly explaining many of the top national and international news headlines; international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by ITN correspondents. This is usually followed by three or four longer news segments, typically running six to twelve minutes, which explore a few of the events mentioned in the headline segment in depth and include discussions with experts, newsmakers, and/or commentators. The program formerly included a reflective essay on a regular basis, but these have been curtailed in recent years; since Woodruff and Ifill became anchors, these essays have mainly aired as part of the end-of-show segment "Brief, but Spectacular".

On Fridays, the program features political analysis and discussion between two regular contributors, one from each of the Republican and Democratic parties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have been Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and The New York Times columnist David Brooks. Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included David Gergen, Thomas Oliphant, Rich Lowry, William Kristol, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ruth Marcus, Michael Gerson, David Corn and E. J. Dionne. On Mondays, a similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report, and Tamara Keith, Washington, D.C. correspondent for NPR.

The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming, Richard Rodriguez, Clarence Page and Roger Rosenblatt.[59] Correspondents have been Tom Bearden, Betty Ann Bowser, Susan Dentzer, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Kwame Holman, Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, the economics correspondent Paul Solman (Making Sen$e), Malcolm Brabant and others.[60]

Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U.S. political debates. By November 2008, Lehrer had moderated more than ten debates between major U.S. presidential candidates.[61] In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin; in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards.[62]

Honor Roll segment edit

On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the PBS NewsHour began what it called its "Honor Roll", a short segment displaying in silence the picture, name, rank, and hometown of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. On January 4, 2006, military personnel killed in Afghanistan were added to the segment.[63] According to Nielsen ratings at the program's website, 2.7 million people watch the program each night, and 8 million watch in the course of a week. PBS NewsHour aired the final honor roll segment on August 30, 2021, after the end of War in Afghanistan.

Availability edit

The PBS NewsHour is broadcast on more than 350 PBS member stations and member networks, making it available to 99% of the viewing public, and audio from the program is broadcast by some NPR radio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via American Public Television's World digital subchannel service. Broadcasts of the PBS NewsHour are also made available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such as the Voice of America.

A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear the PBS NewsHour on their schedules due to existing carriage on a "primary" PBS member station, a pool mainly confined to "secondary" stations (most of which participate in the service's Program Differentiation Plan) that share certain media markets with a "primary" member outlet. These include the NJ PBS network in New Jersey (as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS and WLIW, carries the program in the New York City area, the latter airing the program live, while WHYY-TV does so in the Philadelphia market); KVCR-DT in San Bernardino, California; KCET in Los Angeles (KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach, which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Group of Southern California and is the primary PBS member in the region, serves as the program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and WYIN in Gary, Indiana (WTTW, the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN's Northwest Indiana service area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston, WGBH-TV airs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station WGBX rebroadcasts the weekday editions later the same evening, and the weekend editions live; a similar case exists in New York City but in reverse, where WLIW airs the weekday and weekend editions of the PBS NewsHour live while WNET airs them on a tape delay (delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half-hour on weekends). KQED in San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with its radio sister at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Time), in addition to airing the Western Edition on television at 6:00 p.m. PT. Unusually for many years, the secondary station of Milwaukee PBS, WMVT, carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with the Nightly Business Report (which was the lead-in to NewsHour on many member stations until that program ceased production in December 2019), and half-hour international newscasts from Deutsche Welle and BBC World News, due to an expanded schedule of PBS Kids and local-interest programming on WMVS; this has since been rectified with the launch of the all-hours PBS Kids subchannel network.

Archives of shows broadcast after February 7, 2000, are available in several streaming media formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on the American Forces Network. Audio from select segments is also released in podcast form, available through several feeds on the PBS NewsHour's subscriptions page with link to a FeedBurner website (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and among others.

Livestreaming edit

The PBS NewsHour is streamed live on the program's YouTube channel at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time each weeknight, with the Western edition also streaming live at 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. Pacific Time). PBS News Weekend is also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 p.m. ET. Full episodes are available later on the PBS NewsHour YouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's website.

The NewsHour was also livestreamed on Ustream until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on September 17, 2018. The NewsHour has also provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming the January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump on the program's Twitter account.

International broadcasts edit

PBS NewsHour editorial guidelines edit

On December 4, 2009, when introducing the new PBS NewsHour format, Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism":[66][67]

  • "Do nothing I cannot defend."
  • "Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me."
  • "Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story."
  • "Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am."
  • "Assume the same about all people on whom I report."
  • "Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise."
  • "Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything."
  • "Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions."
  • "No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously."
  • "And finally, I am not in the entertainment business."

On-air staff edit

Current edit

Anchors edit

  • Amna Nawaz, co-anchor since January 2, 2023; joined April 6, 2018 as a chief correspondent[68]
  • Geoff Bennett, co-anchor since January 2, 2023; previously anchor of weekend broadcast beginning April 2, 2022; joined January 3, 2022 as chief Washington correspondent[69][68]
  • Stephanie Sy, anchor of PBS NewsHour West and continuing correspondent; joined October 14, 2019
  • John Yang, weekend anchor since December 31, 2022; joined March 1, 2016 as a national correspondent

Correspondents edit

  • Laura Barrón-López – White House correspondent (joined on June 16, 2022)[70]
  • Malcolm Brabant – special correspondent, especially reporting from Europe, based in Denmark (joined June 15, 2015)
  • William Brangham – correspondent/producer and occasional substitute anchor for the weekday and weekend program (joined August 10, 2012)
  • Marcia Biggs - special correspondent, Middle East[71]
  • Jeffrey Brown – chief correspondent for arts, culture, and society, substitute weekday anchor (joined December 23, 1998)
  • Daniel Bush – senior digital political reporter on air during election night coverage (joined November 2015)[72]
  • Tom Casciato - special correspondent[73]
  • Fred de Sam Lazaro – correspondent and contributor to the Agents For Change series (joined December 10, 1985)
  • Lisa Desjardins – political correspondent (joined October 29, 2014)
  • Michael Hill – substitute weekend anchor (joined in September 2020)[74]
  • Miles O'Brien – science and aviation correspondent, substitute anchor (joined February 9, 2010)
  • Ali Rogin - weekend correspondent[75]
  • Nick Schifrin – foreign affairs and defense correspondent and substitute anchor (joined February 10, 2016)
  • Paul Solman – business, economics and occasional art correspondent, creator of Making Sen$e (joined September 1, 1978)
  • Hari Sreenivasan – special correspondent and former substitute anchor and weekend anchor (December 7, 2009 – March 27, 2022)
  • Alison Stewart – substitute weekend anchor (joined September 27, 2013)
  • Megan Thompson – substitute weekend anchor (joined January 11, 2013)
  • Mike Taibbi – special weekend correspondent (joined April 11, 2015)
  • P.J. Tobia – foreign affairs editor (joined June 19, 2013)
  • Judy Woodruff – senior correspondent and former weekday anchor (joined September 5, 1983 – June 24, 1993; joined CNN Group and returned to PBS on April 12, 2006; stepped down as main anchor on December 30, 2022)[57][76][77][58]

Political analysts edit

Former edit

  • Robert MacNeil – weekday anchor (October 20, 1975 – October 20, 1995; retired)
  • Jim Lehrer – weekday anchor and executive editor (March 15, 1976 – June 6, 2011; retired except on Fridays until his last day December 30, 2011, and his last day as an executive editor on September 26, 2014; died on January 23, 2020)
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault – weekday anchor (December 8, 1977 – June 13, 1997; retired)
  • Kwame Holman – correspondent (1983 – 2014; retired)
  • Roger Mudd – essayist and political correspondent (1987 – 1993; later became primary anchor for The History Channel; died on March 9, 2021)
  • Margaret Warner – weekday anchor (June 24, 1993 – September 7, 2017; now a White House correspondent after leaving NewsHour)
  • Gwen Ifill – Monday-Thursday anchor (also a Senior Correspondent) (October 4, 1999 – November 14, 2016; died from endometrial cancer)
  • Ray Suarez – weekday anchor (October 4, 1999 – October 25, 2013; moved to Al Jazeera America, and left NewsHour after the launch of 2013's NewsHour with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff)[78]
  • Terence Smith – weekday anchor (August 17, 1998 – November 23, 2005; retired)
  • Yamiche Alcindor – White House correspondent (December 31, 2015 – January 7, 2022; moved to NBC News)

Political analysts edit

  • David Gergen (Fridays; March 30, 1981 – March 18, 1994)
  • Michael Gerson of The Washington Post (substitute, died on November 17, 2022)
  • Paul Gigot (Fridays; March 25, 1994 – September 14, 2001)
  • Mark Shields as a syndicated columnist (Fridays; November 11, 1988 – December 18, 2020; died on June 18, 2022, from kidney failure)

Criticism and reception edit

In 1992, radio broadcaster David Barsamian called the NewsHour "stenographers to power", accusing them and other news media of having a pro-establishment bias.[79]

Critical response edit

PBS NewsHour has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS."[80] David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of The Denver Post wrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television."[81] Phil Owen of TheWrap wrote, "The least partisan analysis."[82] Tim Surette of TV Guide wrote, "The calm and credible information we need."[83] Jennifer Gerson of The 19th wrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history."[84]

In 2003, UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on "think tank" citations to map liberal versus conservative media slants and published a study alleging liberal media bias in general. Based on their research, PBS NewsHour is the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance.[85][86] However, their methodology has been questioned.[87]

FAIR study edit

In October 2006 the media criticism group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) accused the PBS NewsHour of lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of the general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints. FAIR found that the PBS NewsHour's guest list from October 2005 to March 2006 had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2–1, and minorities accounting for 15 percent of U.S.-based sources.[88] FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program, citing Liberty's majority owner, John Malone, for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments.[89]

NewsHour executive producer Linda Winslow responded to many aspects:

FAIR seems to be accusing us of covering the people who make decisions that affect people's lives, many of whom work in government, the military, or corporate America. That's what we do: we're a news program, and that's who makes news... I take issue with the way the FAIR report characterizes each guest, which they have obviously done very subjectively. Witness the trashing of Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant (in the full report), who are not liberal enough for FAIR's taste. When you get down to arguing about degrees of left-and-rightness, I think you undermine your own argument.

She also accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward the political party holding a majority (at the time of FAIR's report, Republican Party).[90]

Partnership with NPR edit

The PBS NewsHour partnered with NPR for the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016, in a strategy to prepare for the election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.[91][92][93][94][95]

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    Gross, Daniel (January 26, 2004). "John Malone's tricky maneuvers". Slate. Retrieved May 26, 2021. Liberty Media today is a strange hybrid—part venture capital fund, part mutual fund, part asset shuffler extraordinaire, and part long-term operator of businesses. Its astonishing array of holdings (click here and download the PDF file to see the 9-page chart) includes bits and pieces of television channels like Game Show Network, Animal Planet, and significant pieces of massive publicly held companies like Interactive Corp. and Sprint. (He even owns two-thirds of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.)

    Street, Paul (October 28, 2016). "The 'P' in PBS Should Stand for 'Plutocratic' or 'Pentagon'". Truthdig. Retrieved May 26, 2021. Consistent with those commercials and despite its name, the news and commentary one finds on PBS are in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media. As progressive journalist David Sirota suggested two years ago, reflecting on recent investigations showing that super-moneyed, right-wing capitalists such as the Koch brothers and Texas billionaire John Arnold had (along with more liberal software mogul Bill Gates) influenced PBS content through multimillion-dollar donations, the "P" in PBS often seems to more properly stand for "Plutocratic," not "Public." None of this should be surprising to anyone familiar with the distinctively big-business-dominated history of U.S. broadcast media. Because the United States fails to provide anything like adequate funding for public broadcasting, both PBS and National Public Radio (a regular vehicle for neoliberal business ideology) depend upon foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals to pay for much of their programming. Beneath their standard claims to have no interest in shaping public media content, these private funders have bottom-line agendas, meaning that their contributions come with strings attached—strings that undermine the integrity of the "independent" journalism they bankroll. (For what it's worth, between 1994 and 2014, the "NewsHour" was primarily owned by the for-profit firm Liberty Media. Liberty Media was run by the conservative and politically active billionaire John Malone, who had a majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, the show's producer.)

    Jackson, Janine (November 1, 2010). "What's 'Public' About Public TV's News Flagship?". FAIR. Retrieved May 26, 2021. A few observers (Variety, 12/5/94) noted that "for Malone, M/L Prods. is a prestige buy that is likely to earn him some goodwill in Washington; TCI has been a frequent target of lawmakers." As Verne Gay (Newsday, 12/5/94) put it, "The new Republican-controlled Congress may be less willing to bash Malone, even less so now that he owns NewsHour. Washington types, you see, adore NewsHour."
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External links edit

  • Official website
  • . Archived from the original on May 8, 1999. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  • . Archived from the original on June 5, 1997. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  • "PBS NewsHour" Special Collection. American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Retrieved July 23, 2020.

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newshour, american, evening, television, news, program, broadcast, over, member, stations, airs, seven, nights, week, known, depth, coverage, issues, current, events, since, january, 2023, hour, weekday, editions, have, been, anchored, amna, nawaz, geoff, benn. PBS NewsHour is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations It airs seven nights a week and is known for its in depth coverage of issues and current events Since January 2 2023 the one hour weekday editions have been anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett The 30 minute weekend editions branded as PBS News Weekend have been anchored by John Yang since December 31 2022 PBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour logo used since 2017Also known asThe Robert MacNeil Report 1975 1976 The MacNeil Lehrer Report 1976 1983 The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour 1983 1995 The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer 1995 2009 PBS NewsHour Weekend weekend editions 2013 2022 PBS News Weekend weekend editions 2022 present PBS NewsHour West western edition GenreNews programCreated byRobert MacNeil Jim Lehrer Lester CrystalDirected byJoseph Camp weekday editions Chip Hirzel weekend editions Presented byWeekdays Amna Nawaz Geoff Bennett Stephanie Sy PBS Newshour West Weekends John YangTheme music composerBernard Hoffer 1975 2006 David Cebert and Bernard Hoffer 2006 2015 1 Edd Kalehoff 2015 present Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishProductionExecutive producersSara Just weekday editions Rachel Wellford weekend editions Production locationsWETA TV studios Arlington County Virginia Arizona State University Phoenix Arizona Western editions Camera setupMulti cameraRunning time60 minutes 1983 present weekday editions 30 minutes 1975 1983 weekday editions 2013 present weekend editions Production companiesWNET weekday editions 1975 1995 weekend editions 2013 2022 WETA TV weekday editions 1995 present weekend editions 2022 present MacNeil Lehrer Productions 1981 2014 NewsHour Productions 2014 present Original releaseNetworkPBSReleaseOctober 20 1975 1975 10 20 presentThe broadcasts are produced by PBS member station WETA TV in Washington D C and originates from its studio facilities in Arlington County Virginia Since 2019 news updates inserted into the weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in the Western United States online and late at night have been anchored by Stephanie Sy originating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University Additional production facilities for the program are based in San Francisco and Denver 2 The program is a collaboration between WETA TV and PBS member station WNET in New York City along with KQED in San Francisco KETC in St Louis and WTTW in Chicago The program debuted in 1975 as The Robert MacNeil Report before being renamed The MacNeil Lehrer Report one year later It was anchored by Robert MacNeil from WNET s studios and Jim Lehrer from WETA s studios In 1983 the show was rebranded as The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour and then The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer following MacNeil s departure in 1995 It was then renamed to its current PBS NewsHour title in 2009 two years before Lehrer left in 2011 Originally the program only aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in 2013 Production of the weekend broadcasts were solely produced by WNET 3 before the New York City station transferred all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA in April 2022 4 Contents 1 History 1 1 Ownership 1 2 The Robert MacNeil Report and The MacNeil Lehrer Report 1975 1983 1 3 The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer 1983 2009 1 4 PBS NewsHour 1 4 1 Departure of Jim Lehrer and switch to co anchors 2009 2013 1 4 2 Transfer of production expansion to weekends and the west 2013 present 2 Production and ratings 2 1 Honor Roll segment 3 Availability 3 1 Livestreaming 4 International broadcasts 5 PBS NewsHour editorial guidelines 6 On air staff 6 1 Current 6 1 1 Anchors 6 1 2 Correspondents 6 1 3 Political analysts 6 2 Former 6 2 1 Political analysts 7 Criticism and reception 7 1 Critical response 7 2 FAIR study 8 Partnership with NPR 9 References 10 External linksHistory editOwnership edit In September 1981 production of the program was taken over by MacNeil Lehrer Productions a partnership between Robert MacNeil Jim Lehrer and Gannett the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986 John C Malone s Liberty Media bought a 67 controlling equity stake in MacNeil Lehrer Productions in 1994 5 6 but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control 7 In 2014 MacNeil Lehrer Productions owned by MacNeil Lehrer and Liberty Media announced its donation as NewsHour Productions LLC to WETA TV as a nonprofit subsidiary 8 9 The Robert MacNeil Report and The MacNeil Lehrer Report 1975 1983 edit External videos nbsp The Robert MacNeil Report 19 New York City and C367 Bailout segment starts at 2 45 November 13 1975 NewsHour Productions and American Archive of Public Broadcasting 10 In 1973 Robert MacNeil a former NBC News correspondent and then moderator of PBS s Washington Week in Review and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover the United States Senate s Watergate hearings for PBS They earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel to gavel coverage 11 This recognition led to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report a half hour local news program on WNET which debuted on October 20 1975 each episode of the program covered a single issue in depth On December 1 1975 the program began to air on PBS stations nationwide It was renamed The MacNeil Lehrer Report on September 6 1976 12 Most editions employed a two anchor two city format with MacNeil based in New York City and Lehrer at WETA s studios in Arlington Virginia Charlayne Hunter Gault joined the series as a correspondent in 1978 serving as a substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off She became the series national correspondent in 1983 nbsp The final title sequence as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer used from May 17 2006 to December 4 2009The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer 1983 2009 edit Having decided to start competing with the nightly news programs on ABC CBS and NBC instead of complementing them the program expanded to one hour on September 5 1983 13 incorporating other changes such as the introduction of documentary reportage from the field 14 it became known at that time as The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour Lester Crystal was its founding executive producer MacNeil Lehrer Productions twice planned to launch late night newscasts in 1995 and 1999 in both instances the proposed expansions which respectively were to have involved production and newsgathering partnerships with Wall Street Journal Television and The New York Times were canceled mid development 15 MacNeil retired from the program on October 20 1995 leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor Hunter Gault left in June 1997 16 Accordingly the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on October 23 17 On January 16 1996 The NewsHour announced the creation of its official website at PBS Online 18 The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery Non Working Numbers 19 On May 17 1999 The NewsHour adopted a new graphics package with refreshed music from 1983 plus the new studio with a blue globe in the middle On October 4 1999 Gwen Ifill joined The NewsHour team as a new correspondent She was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television 20 Effective January 17 2000 The NewsHour added America Online Keyword PBS to its ending screen for a three year agreement through April 22 2003 21 22 23 For only the website the program took effect on April 23 2003 24 On March 3 2003 the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning 25 On November 17 2003 The NewsHour added music in the beginning with dates 26 On May 17 2006 the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of its theme music originally composed by Bernard Hoffer 27 28 On December 17 2007 29 30 31 the NewsHour became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition after NBC Nightly News on March 26 2007 with broadcasts in a letterboxed format for viewers with standard definition television sets watching via either cable or satellite television The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD PBS NewsHour edit Departure of Jim Lehrer and switch to co anchors 2009 2013 edit nbsp Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff at the 2012 Republican National ConventionOn May 11 2009 PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year 32 under a revised title the PBS NewsHour 33 In addition to increased integration between the NewsHour website and nightly broadcast the updated production returned to a two anchor format 34 Lehrer described the overhaul as the first phase in his move toward retirement On September 27 2010 PBS NewsHour was presented with the Chairman s Award at the 31st News amp Documentary Emmy Awards with MacNeil Lehrer Crystal and former executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show s behalf 35 Lehrer formally ended his tenure as a regular anchor of the program on June 6 2011 He continued to occasionally anchor on Fridays when he usually led the political analysis segment with Mark Shields and David Brooks until December 30 2011 36 Transfer of production expansion to weekends and the west 2013 present edit nbsp Judy Woodruff interviewing US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on September 18 2013On August 6 2013 Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named co anchors and co managing editors of the NewsHour 37 They shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions with Woodruff anchoring solo on Fridays due to Ifill s duties as host of the political discussion program Washington Week which was also produced Friday evenings 38 For much of its history the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Friday but in March 2013 plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development 39 Weekend editions of the NewsHour premiered on September 7 2013 with Hari Sreenivasan serving as anchor Although they aired for a half hour the weekend broadcasts were branded PBS NewsHour Weekend for the duration of WNET s involvement with the program From the weekend broadcasts debut until the March 27 2022 edition the Saturday and Sunday editions originated from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan as opposed to the program s main production facilities at the Arlington Virginia studios of WETA TV 40 41 MacNeil Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the show s staffers on October 8 2013 that it had offered to transfer ownership in the PBS NewsHour to WETA In the letter Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with the program s production since their departures from anchoring as well as the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities 42 43 WETA s board of trustees approved the transfer on June 17 2014 and it took effect on July 1 At that time NewsHour Productions LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of WETA took over production of the program WETA also acquired MacNeil Lehrer Productions archives documentaries and projects though not the company s name PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET 7 On July 20 2015 the PBS NewsHour introduced an overhauled visual appearance for its weekday broadcasts debuting a new minimalist set designed by Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS s longtime Everyman logo the network revised its brand identity in 2019 44 45 the program has thus far not made any changes to incorporate it The program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by Edd Kalehoff which incorporates a reorchestration of the nine note Question and Answer musical signature that has been featured in the program s theme since its premiere in 1975 and a musical signature originally incorporated into the Kalehoff composed theme for the Nightly Business Report used from 2002 to 2010 46 47 48 49 PBS NewsHour Weekend retained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert until August 29 2015 when it transitioned to the same theme music and a reworked version of the graphics package used for the weekday broadcasts Ifill took brief breaks from her NewsHour anchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 and was also absent from the program s presidential election coverage on November 8 as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage breast and endometrial cancer After her death was announced on November 14 2016 that evening s edition of the PBS NewsHour was dedicated to Ifill and her influence on journalism featuring tributes from Woodruff Sreenivasan former colleagues and program contributors news content was relegated to the standard news summary which aired during the second half hour 50 51 52 53 54 Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017 Woodruff went on to become sole anchor In 2018 The Plastic Problem aired which then went on to win a Peabody Award 55 presented at the 2019 awards ceremony On October 14 2019 PBS NewsHour launched PBS NewsHour West a Western United States bureau at Arizona State University s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix Anchored by Stephanie Sy the bureau produces its own news summary with up to date information on events that develop after the original broadcast A version of the program with this summary is shown to viewers in the Western United States and to online and East Coast viewers watching re broadcasts 56 On April 2 2022 WETA assumed production responsibilities for the NewsHour s Saturday and Sunday editions which concurrently began originating from the studio at the station s Washington facility used for the weekday broadcasts The broadcasts were retitled PBS News Weekend omitting NewsHour in view of their shorter duration NewsHour Productions transferred production of the weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program s production and news gathering resources allowing the weekday and weekend NewsHour broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with Washington Week which is also produced by WETA TV Coinciding with the move the weekend editions began carrying feature segments covering culture and the arts Sreenivasan who remains a New York based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for the PBS news discussion program Amanpour amp Company was replaced as weekend anchor by NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett 4 As of December 31 2022 John Yang anchors the weekend program On May 13 2022 Woodruff announced to NewsHour staffers that she would step down as anchor at the end of the year though she intends to continue reporting longer pieces for the program while doing projects and specials for WETA through the 2024 United States presidential election at the earliest Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were named Woodruff s successors 57 Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30 2022 58 Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co anchors on January 2 2023 Production and ratings edit nbsp Behind the scenes at The NewsHour during a Gen Peter Pace interview on November 7 2005The program is notable for being shown on public television There are no interruptions for advertisements though like most public television programs there are corporate image advertisements at the beginning and end of each broadcast as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate to their local PBS member station or member network during locally produced pledge drives which are replaced by encore presentations of a select story segment from the past year for stations that not holding a drive during that time The program has a more deliberate pace than the news broadcasts of the commercial networks it competes against allowing for deeper detail in its story packages and feature segments At the start of the program the lead story is covered in depth followed by a news summary that lasts roughly between six and eight minutes briefly explaining many of the top national and international news headlines international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by ITN correspondents This is usually followed by three or four longer news segments typically running six to twelve minutes which explore a few of the events mentioned in the headline segment in depth and include discussions with experts newsmakers and or commentators The program formerly included a reflective essay on a regular basis but these have been curtailed in recent years since Woodruff and Ifill became anchors these essays have mainly aired as part of the end of show segment Brief but Spectacular On Fridays the program features political analysis and discussion between two regular contributors one from each of the Republican and Democratic parties and one host from among the senior correspondents Since January 2021 the usual participants have been Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and The New York Times columnist David Brooks Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included David Gergen Thomas Oliphant Rich Lowry William Kristol Ramesh Ponnuru Ruth Marcus Michael Gerson David Corn and E J Dionne On Mondays a similar segment Politics Monday features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors Amy Walter national editor of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith Washington D C correspondent for NPR The program s senior correspondents are Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown Arts Culture amp Society Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming Richard Rodriguez Clarence Page and Roger Rosenblatt 59 Correspondents have been Tom Bearden Betty Ann Bowser Susan Dentzer Elizabeth Farnsworth Kwame Holman Spencer Michels Fred de Sam Lazaro the economics correspondent Paul Solman Making Sen e Malcolm Brabant and others 60 Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U S political debates By November 2008 Lehrer had moderated more than ten debates between major U S presidential candidates 61 In 2008 Ifill moderated a debate between U S vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin in 2004 she moderated a debate between candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards 62 Honor Roll segment edit On March 31 2003 after the U S led invasion of Iraq in 2003 the PBS NewsHour began what it called its Honor Roll a short segment displaying in silence the picture name rank and hometown of U S military personnel killed in Iraq On January 4 2006 military personnel killed in Afghanistan were added to the segment 63 According to Nielsen ratings at the program s website 2 7 million people watch the program each night and 8 million watch in the course of a week PBS NewsHour aired the final honor roll segment on August 30 2021 after the end of War in Afghanistan Availability editThe PBS NewsHour is broadcast on more than 350 PBS member stations and member networks making it available to 99 of the viewing public and audio from the program is broadcast by some NPR radio stations It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via American Public Television s World digital subchannel service Broadcasts of the PBS NewsHour are also made available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such as the Voice of America A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear the PBS NewsHour on their schedules due to existing carriage on a primary PBS member station a pool mainly confined to secondary stations most of which participate in the service s Program Differentiation Plan that share certain media markets with a primary member outlet These include the NJ PBS network in New Jersey as WNET which co manages NJ PBS and WLIW carries the program in the New York City area the latter airing the program live while WHYY TV does so in the Philadelphia market KVCR DT in San Bernardino California KCET in Los Angeles KOCE TV in Huntington Beach which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Group of Southern California and is the primary PBS member in the region serves as the program s carrier in the Los Angeles market and WYIN in Gary Indiana WTTW the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN s Northwest Indiana service area serves as the program s carrier in the Chicago market In Boston WGBH TV airs the program live each weeknight with a simulcast online while its secondary station WGBX rebroadcasts the weekday editions later the same evening and the weekend editions live a similar case exists in New York City but in reverse where WLIW airs the weekday and weekend editions of the PBS NewsHour live while WNET airs them on a tape delay delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half hour on weekends KQED in San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with its radio sister at 3 00 p m Pacific Time 6 00 p m Eastern Time in addition to airing the Western Edition on television at 6 00 p m PT Unusually for many years the secondary station of Milwaukee PBS WMVT carried the program as part of an early evening news block with the Nightly Business Report which was the lead in to NewsHour on many member stations until that program ceased production in December 2019 and half hour international newscasts from Deutsche Welle and BBC World News due to an expanded schedule of PBS Kids and local interest programming on WMVS this has since been rectified with the launch of the all hours PBS Kids subchannel network Archives of shows broadcast after February 7 2000 are available in several streaming media formats including full motion video at the program s website The show is available to overseas military personnel on the American Forces Network Audio from select segments is also released in podcast form available through several feeds on the PBS NewsHour s subscriptions page with link to a FeedBurner website for free mp3 download and through podcast services such as Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify and among others Livestreaming edit The PBS NewsHour is streamed live on the program s YouTube channel at 6 00 p m Eastern Time each weeknight with the Western edition also streaming live at 9 00 p m ET 6 00 p m Pacific Time PBS News Weekend is also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5 00 p m ET Full episodes are available later on the PBS NewsHour YouTube channel and on the program s dedicated page on PBS s website The NewsHour was also livestreamed on Ustream until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on September 17 2018 The NewsHour has also provided livestreaming of special events most notably streaming the January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump on the program s Twitter account International broadcasts editIn Australia the program is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1 00 p m AEST on SBS 64 In New Zealand the NewsHour is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 10 p m on Face TV Auckland 65 In Japan the program is seen every weekday on NHK BS1 17 Around the world for members of the United States Armed Forces on the American Forces Network The program is seen internationally through the Voice of America PBS NewsHour editorial guidelines editOn December 4 2009 when introducing the new PBS NewsHour format Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called MacNeil Lehrer journalism 66 67 Do nothing I cannot defend Cover write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am Assume the same about all people on whom I report Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously And finally I am not in the entertainment business On air staff editCurrent edit Anchors edit Amna Nawaz co anchor since January 2 2023 joined April 6 2018 as a chief correspondent 68 Geoff Bennett co anchor since January 2 2023 previously anchor of weekend broadcast beginning April 2 2022 joined January 3 2022 as chief Washington correspondent 69 68 Stephanie Sy anchor of PBS NewsHour West and continuing correspondent joined October 14 2019 John Yang weekend anchor since December 31 2022 joined March 1 2016 as a national correspondentCorrespondents edit Laura Barron Lopez White House correspondent joined on June 16 2022 70 Malcolm Brabant special correspondent especially reporting from Europe based in Denmark joined June 15 2015 William Brangham correspondent producer and occasional substitute anchor for the weekday and weekend program joined August 10 2012 Marcia Biggs special correspondent Middle East 71 Jeffrey Brown chief correspondent for arts culture and society substitute weekday anchor joined December 23 1998 Daniel Bush senior digital political reporter on air during election night coverage joined November 2015 72 Tom Casciato special correspondent 73 Fred de Sam Lazaro correspondent and contributor to the Agents For Change series joined December 10 1985 Lisa Desjardins political correspondent joined October 29 2014 Michael Hill substitute weekend anchor joined in September 2020 74 Miles O Brien science and aviation correspondent substitute anchor joined February 9 2010 Ali Rogin weekend correspondent 75 Nick Schifrin foreign affairs and defense correspondent and substitute anchor joined February 10 2016 Paul Solman business economics and occasional art correspondent creator of Making Sen e joined September 1 1978 Hari Sreenivasan special correspondent and former substitute anchor and weekend anchor December 7 2009 March 27 2022 Alison Stewart substitute weekend anchor joined September 27 2013 Megan Thompson substitute weekend anchor joined January 11 2013 Mike Taibbi special weekend correspondent joined April 11 2015 P J Tobia foreign affairs editor joined June 19 2013 Judy Woodruff senior correspondent and former weekday anchor joined September 5 1983 June 24 1993 joined CNN Group and returned to PBS on April 12 2006 stepped down as main anchor on December 30 2022 57 76 77 58 Political analysts edit David Brooks of The New York Times Fridays joined September 21 2001 Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post Fridays joined January 8 2021 Tamara Keith of NPR Mondays joined November 1 2012 Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report Mondays and election night joined July 29 2004 Jeff Greenfield weekends E J Dionne of The Washington Post substitute Susan Page of USA Today substitute joined July 16 2018 Stuart Rothenberg of Inside Elections substitute joined October 30 1992 Gary Abernathy of The Washington Post substitute Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post substitute Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal substitute Former edit Robert MacNeil weekday anchor October 20 1975 October 20 1995 retired Jim Lehrer weekday anchor and executive editor March 15 1976 June 6 2011 retired except on Fridays until his last day December 30 2011 and his last day as an executive editor on September 26 2014 died on January 23 2020 Charlayne Hunter Gault weekday anchor December 8 1977 June 13 1997 retired Kwame Holman correspondent 1983 2014 retired Roger Mudd essayist and political correspondent 1987 1993 later became primary anchor for The History Channel died on March 9 2021 Margaret Warner weekday anchor June 24 1993 September 7 2017 now a White House correspondent after leaving NewsHour Gwen Ifill Monday Thursday anchor also a Senior Correspondent October 4 1999 November 14 2016 died from endometrial cancer Ray Suarez weekday anchor October 4 1999 October 25 2013 moved to Al Jazeera America and left NewsHour after the launch of 2013 s NewsHour with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff 78 Terence Smith weekday anchor August 17 1998 November 23 2005 retired Yamiche Alcindor White House correspondent December 31 2015 January 7 2022 moved to NBC News Political analysts edit David Gergen Fridays March 30 1981 March 18 1994 Michael Gerson of The Washington Post substitute died on November 17 2022 Paul Gigot Fridays March 25 1994 September 14 2001 Mark Shields as a syndicated columnist Fridays November 11 1988 December 18 2020 died on June 18 2022 from kidney failure Criticism and reception editIn 1992 radio broadcaster David Barsamian called the NewsHour stenographers to power accusing them and other news media of having a pro establishment bias 79 Critical response edit PBS NewsHour has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children Patrick Kevin Day of the Los Angeles Times wrote Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS 80 David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of The Denver Post wrote One of the most trusted news programs on television 81 Phil Owen of TheWrap wrote The least partisan analysis 82 Tim Surette of TV Guide wrote The calm and credible information we need 83 Jennifer Gerson of The 19th wrote Nawaz is stepping into history 84 In 2003 UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on think tank citations to map liberal versus conservative media slants and published a study alleging liberal media bias in general Based on their research PBS NewsHour is the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance 85 86 However their methodology has been questioned 87 FAIR study edit In October 2006 the media criticism group Fairness amp Accuracy in Reporting FAIR accused the PBS NewsHour of lacking balance diversity and viewpoints of the general public and for presenting corporate viewpoints FAIR found that the PBS NewsHour s guest list from October 2005 to March 2006 had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2 1 and minorities accounting for 15 percent of U S based sources 88 FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program citing Liberty s majority owner John Malone for his Machiavellian business tactics and right wing sentiments 89 NewsHour executive producer Linda Winslow responded to many aspects FAIR seems to be accusing us of covering the people who make decisions that affect people s lives many of whom work in government the military or corporate America That s what we do we re a news program and that s who makes news I take issue with the way the FAIR report characterizes each guest which they have obviously done very subjectively Witness the trashing of Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant in the full report who are not liberal enough for FAIR s taste When you get down to arguing about degrees of left and rightness I think you undermine your own argument She also accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews thereby skewing their numbers toward the political party holding a majority at the time of FAIR s report Republican Party 90 Partnership with NPR editThe PBS NewsHour partnered with NPR for the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016 in a strategy to prepare for the election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 91 92 93 94 95 References edit PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Cue11 Archived from the original on September 26 2008 Contact Us macneil lehrer com MacNeil Lehrer Productions Archived from the original on November 13 2011 Retrieved October 26 2011 Interview with PBS NewsHour Weekend s Hari Sreenivasan THIRTEEN New York Public Media THIRTEEN New York Public Media Retrieved August 22 2017 a b Brian Steinberg March 31 2022 Geoff Bennett Gets Ready to Launch a Retooled PBS News Weekend Variety Penske Media Corporation Friedland Lewis A October 17 1993 Reach Out and Stiff Someone Media merger 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Inc has agreed to purchase a two thirds interest in MacNeil Lehrer Productions The company which produces The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour for PBS plans to develop programming for cable the networks and public television The deal will not affect Robert MacNeil s plan to give up his co anchor seat next October but he will oversee all of the new non NewsHour programming Nor will the deal affect NewsHour which is ours and ours alone PBS President Ervin Duggan said and it will continue to be so Liberty Media Corporation Report to Investors May 1999 ir qurateretail com May 1999 Retrieved May 26 2021 For purposes of the summary below Old Liberty refers to Liberty Media Corporation including its predecessors which changed its name to Liberty Interactive Corporation on September 22 2011 and subsequently changed its name to Qurate Retail Inc on April 9 2018 New Liberty refers to Liberty CapStarz Inc which changed its name to Liberty Media Corporation on September 22 2011 Gross Daniel January 26 2004 John Malone s tricky maneuvers Slate Retrieved May 26 2021 Liberty Media today is a strange hybrid part venture capital fund part mutual fund part asset shuffler extraordinaire and part long term operator of businesses Its astonishing array of holdings click here and download the PDF file to see the 9 page chart includes bits and pieces of television channels like Game Show Network Animal Planet and significant pieces of massive publicly held companies like Interactive Corp and Sprint He even owns two thirds of MacNeil Lehrer Productions Street Paul October 28 2016 The P in PBS Should Stand for Plutocratic or Pentagon Truthdig Retrieved May 26 2021 Consistent with those commercials and despite its name the news and commentary one finds on PBS are in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for profit and commercialized corporate media As progressive journalist David Sirota suggested two years ago reflecting on recent investigations showing that super moneyed right wing capitalists such as the Koch brothers and Texas billionaire John Arnold had along with more liberal software mogul Bill Gates influenced PBS content through multimillion dollar donations the P in PBS often seems to more properly stand for Plutocratic not Public None of this should be surprising to anyone familiar with the distinctively big business dominated history of U S broadcast media Because the United States fails to provide anything like adequate funding for public broadcasting both PBS and National Public Radio a regular vehicle for neoliberal business ideology depend upon foundations corporations and wealthy individuals to pay for much of their programming Beneath their standard claims to have no interest in shaping public media content these private funders have bottom line agendas meaning that their contributions come with strings attached strings that undermine the integrity of the independent journalism they bankroll For what it s worth between 1994 and 2014 the NewsHour was primarily owned by the for profit firm Liberty Media Liberty Media was run by the conservative and politically active billionaire John Malone who had a majority stake in MacNeil Lehrer Productions the show s producer Jackson Janine November 1 2010 What s Public About Public TV s News Flagship FAIR Retrieved May 26 2021 A few observers Variety 12 5 94 noted that for Malone M L Prods is a prestige buy that is likely to earn him some goodwill in Washington TCI has been a frequent target of lawmakers As Verne Gay Newsday 12 5 94 put it The new Republican controlled Congress may be less willing to bash Malone even less so now that he owns NewsHour Washington types you see adore NewsHour Fabrikant Geraldine May 15 1996 A Supporting Actor Takes Center Stage But Few People Really Doubt Who Is Boss at Liberty Media The New York Times Retrieved May 26 2021 Peter Barton has always belonged to what he calls the 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