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PBS News Hour
Logo used since June 10, 2024
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 News Hour West(western edition)
GenreNews program
Created by
Directed by
  • Sean Patrick (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(present)

PBS News Hour,previously stylized asPBS NewsHour,is an American eveningtelevision news programbroadcast on over 350PBSmember stationssince October 20, 1975. 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 byAmna NawazandGeoff Bennett.The 30-minute weekend editions that premiered on September 7, 2013, branded asPBS News Weekend,have been anchored byJohn Yangsince December 31, 2022.

The broadcasts are produced by PBS member stationWETA-TVinWashington, D.C.,and originates from its studio facilities inArlington County, Virginia.Since 2019, news updates inserted into the weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in theWestern United States,online, and late at night have been anchored byStephanie Sy,originating from theWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationatArizona State University.Additional production facilities for the program are based inSan FranciscoandDenver.[2]The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV and PBS member stationWNETinNew York City,along withKQEDinSan Francisco,KETCinSt. Louis,andWTTWinChicago.

The program debuted in 1975 asThe Robert MacNeil Reportbefore being renamedThe MacNeil/Lehrer Reportone year later. It was anchored byRobert MacNeilfrom WNET's studios andJim Lehrerfrom WETA's studios. In 1983, the show was rebranded asThe MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,and thenThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrerfollowing MacNeil's departure in 1995. It was then renamed to its currentPBS NewsHourtitle 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 itsPBS NewsHourinvolvement 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 betweenRobert MacNeil,Jim Lehrer,andGannett;the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986.John C. Malone'sLiberty Mediabought 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, andLiberty Mediaannounced its donation, asNewsHour Productions LLC,toWETA-TVas a nonprofit subsidiary.[8][9]

The Robert MacNeil ReportandThe MacNeil/Lehrer Report(1975–1983)[edit]

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

In 1973,Robert MacNeil(a formerNBC Newscorrespondent and then-moderator of PBS'sWashington Week in Review) andJim Lehrerteamed up to cover theUnited States Senate'sWatergate hearingsfor PBS. They earned anEmmy Awardfor their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage.[11]

This recognition led to the creation ofThe 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 renamedThe MacNeil/Lehrer Reporton 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-Gaultjoined 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 asThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,used from May 17, 2006, to December 4, 2009

The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHourandThe NewsHour With Jim Lehrer(1983–2009)[edit]

Having decided to start competing with the nightly news programs onABC,CBSandNBCinstead 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 asThe MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.Lester Crystalwas 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 withWall Street Journal TelevisionandThe New York Times—were canceled mid-development.[15]

MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor.[16]Accordingly, the program was renamedThe NewsHour with Jim Lehreron October 23.[17](Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.) On January 16, 1996,The NewsHourannounced the creation of its official website at PBS Online.[18]The NewsHourwon aPeabody Awardin 2003 for the feature reportJobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers.[19]On May 17, 1999,The NewsHouradopted 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 joinedThe NewsHourteam as a new correspondent. She was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television.[20]Effective January 17, 2000,The NewsHouradded "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 NewsHouradded 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 byBernard Hoffer).[27][28]On December 17, 2007,[29][30][31]theNewsHourbecame the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting inhigh definition(afterNBC Nightly Newson March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in aletterboxedformat for viewers withstandard-definition televisionsets watching via eithercableorsatellite 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 August 27, 2012

On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year[32]under a revised title, thePBS NewsHour.[33]In addition to increased integration between theNewsHourwebsite 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 NewsHourwas presented with the Chairman's Award at the31st 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 withMark ShieldsandDavid Brooks,until December 30, 2011.[36]

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

Judy Woodruffinterviewing US Secretary of DefenseChuck Hagelon September 18, 2013

On August 6, 2013,Gwen IfillandJudy Woodruffwere named co-anchors and co-managing editors of theNewsHour.[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 programWashington Week,which was also produced Friday evenings.[38]

For much of its history, thePBS NewsHouraired 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 theNewsHourpremiered on September 7, 2013, withHari Sreenivasanserving as anchor. Although they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were brandedPBS NewsHour Weekendfor 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 atLincoln CenterinManhattan,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 thePBS NewsHourto 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 Weekendwas not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET.[7]

On July 20, 2015, thePBS NewsHourintroduced 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 program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music byEdd 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 theNightly Business Reportused from 2002 to 2010.[44][45][46][47]PBS NewsHour Weekendretained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert and Bernard Hoffer 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 herNewsHouranchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 (and was also absent from the program'spresidential electioncoverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stagebreastandendometrial cancer.After her death was announced on November 14, 2016, that evening's edition of thePBS NewsHourwas 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).[48][49][50][51][52]Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff went on to become sole anchor.

Former logo used from 2017 to 2024

In 2018,The Plastic Problemaired, which then went on to win aPeabody Award,[53]presented at the 2019 awards ceremony.

On October 14, 2019,PBS NewsHourlaunched "PBS NewsHourWest ", a Western United States bureau atArizona State University'sWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationinPhoenix.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.[54]

On April 2, 2022, WETA assumed production responsibilities for theNewsHour'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 retitledPBS 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 weekendNewsHourbroadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources withWashington 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 programAmanpour & Company) was replaced as weekend anchor byNBC NewsandMSNBCcorrespondent Geoff Bennett.[4]As of December 31, 2022, John Yang anchors the weekend program.

On May 13, 2022, Woodruff announced toNewsHourstaffers 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 the2024 United States presidential electionat the earliest.Amna NawazandGeoff Bennettwere named Woodruff's successors.[55]Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30, 2022.[56]Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co-anchors on January 2, 2023.

On June 10, 2024,PBS News Hourintroduced a new logo and the new studio (still at WETA), to match the current PBS logo.[57][a]At the same time, the program's longstanding ofcamel casein its name was discontinued, with "NewsHour" becoming two words, "News Hour", in conjunction with the network's rebranding of the show's presence on digital media as PBS News.[57]

Production and ratings[edit]

Behind the scenes atThe NewsHour,during a Gen.Peter Paceinterview on November 7, 2005

The program is notable for being shown onpublic 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 producedpledge drives,which are replaced by encore presentations of a select story segment from the past year for stations that are 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 byITNcorrespondents. 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 theRepublicanandDemocraticparties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have beenWashington PostcolumnistJonathan CapehartandThe New York TimescolumnistDavid Brooks.Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have includedDavid Gergen,Thomas Oliphant,Rich Lowry,William Kristol,Ramesh Ponnuru,Ruth Marcus,Michael Gerson,David CornandE. J. Dionne.On Mondays, a similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributorsAmy Walter,national editor ofThe Cook Political Report,andTamara Keith,Washington, D.C. correspondent forNPR.

The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff andJeffrey Brown(Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming,Richard Rodriguez,Clarence PageandRoger Rosenblatt.[60]Correspondents have been Tom Bearden,Betty Ann Bowser,Susan Dentzer,Elizabeth Farnsworth,Kwame Holman,Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, the economics correspondentPaul Solman(Making Sen$e),Malcolm Brabantand others.[61]

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.[62]In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidatesJoe BidenandSarah Palin;in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidatesDick CheneyandJohn Edwards.[63]

Honor Roll segment[edit]

On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–ledinvasion of Iraqin 2003, thePBS News Hourbegan 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.[64]According toNielsen ratingsat the program'swebsite,2.7 million people watch the program each night, and 8 million watch in the course of a week.PBS NewsHouraired the final honor roll segment on August 30, 2021, after the end ofWar in Afghanistan.[65]

Availability[edit]

ThePBS News Houris 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 someNPRradio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night viaAmerican Public Television'sWorlddigital subchannelservice. Broadcasts of thePBS News Hourare also made available worldwide viasatellitesoperated by various agencies such as theVoice of America.

A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear thePBS News Houron 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 certainmedia marketswith a "primary" member outlet. These include theNJ PBSnetwork inNew Jersey(as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS andWLIW,carries the program in the New York City area, the latter airing the program live, whileWHYY-TVdoes so in thePhiladelphiamarket);KVCR-DTinSan Bernardino, California;KCETinLos Angeles(KOCE-TVinHuntington 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); andWYINinGary, Indiana(WTTW,the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN'sNorthwest Indianaservice area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston,WGBH-TVairs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary stationWGBXrebroadcasts 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 thePBS News Hourlive while WNET airs them on a tape delay (delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half-hour on weekends).KQEDin San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with itsradio sisterat 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 ofMilwaukee PBS,WMVT,carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with theNightly Business Report(which was the lead-in toNews Houron many member stations until that program ceased production in December 2019), and half-hour international newscasts fromDeutsche WelleandBBC World News,due to an expanded schedule ofPBS Kidsand 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 severalstreaming mediaformats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on theAmerican Forces Network.Audio from select segments is also released inpodcastform, available through severalfeedson thePBS News Hour's subscriptions page with link to aFeedBurnerwebsite (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such asApple Podcasts,Google Podcasts,Spotify,and among others.

Livestreaming[edit]

ThePBS News Houris streamed live on the program'sYouTubechannel 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 Weekendis also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 p.m. ET. Full episodes are available later on thePBS NewsYouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's website.

TheNews Hourwas also livestreamed onUstreamuntil IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on September 17, 2018. TheNews Hourhas also provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming the January 2017inauguration of Donald Trumpon the program'sTwitteraccount.

International broadcasts[edit]

PBS News Houreditorial guidelines[edit]

On December 4, 2009, when introducing the newPBS NewsHourformat, Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism":[68][69]

  • "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[70]
  • 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[71][70]
  • Stephanie Sy,anchor ofPBS News Hour Westand 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 and substitute weekend anchor (joined on June 16, 2022)[72]
  • 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[73]
  • 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)[74]
  • Tom Casciato- special correspondent[75]
  • Fred de Sam Lazaro– correspondent and contributor to theAgents For Changeseries (joined December 10, 1985)
  • Lisa Desjardins– political correspondent (joined October 29, 2014)
  • Michael Hill– substitute weekend anchor (joined in September 2020)[76]
  • Miles O'Brien– science and aviation correspondent, substitute anchor (joined February 9, 2010)
  • Ali Rogin- weekend correspondent[77]
  • Nick Schifrin– foreign affairs and defense correspondent and substitute anchor (joined February 10, 2016)
  • Paul Solman– business, economics and occasional art correspondent, creator ofMaking 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; joinedCNNGroup and returned to PBS on April 12, 2006; stepped down as main anchor on December 30, 2022)[55][78][79][56]

Political analysts[edit]

Former[edit]

  • Robert MacNeil– weekday anchor (October 20, 1975 – October 20, 1995; died on April 12, 2024)
  • 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 forThe History Channel;died on March 9, 2021)
  • Margaret Warner– weekday anchor (June 24, 1993 – September 7, 2017; now a White House correspondent after leavingNewsHour)
  • Gwen Ifill– Monday-Thursday anchor (also a Senior Correspondent) (October 4, 1999 – November 14, 2016; died fromendometrial cancer)
  • Ray Suarez– weekday anchor (October 4, 1999 – October 25, 2013; moved toAl Jazeera America,and leftNewsHourafter the launch of 2013'sNewsHourwith Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff)[80]
  • Terence Smith– weekday anchor (August 17, 1998 – November 23, 2005; retired)
  • Yamiche Alcindor– White House correspondent (December 31, 2015 – January 7, 2022; moved toNBC News)

Political analysts[edit]

  • David Gergen(Fridays; March 30, 1981 – March 18, 1994)
  • Michael GersonofThe Washington Post(substitute, died on November 17, 2022)
  • Paul Gigot(Fridays; March 25, 1994 – September 14, 2001)
  • Mark Shieldsas a syndicated columnist (Fridays; November 11, 1988 – December 18, 2020; died on June 18, 2022, fromkidney failure)

Criticism and reception[edit]

In 1992, radio broadcasterDavid Barsamiancalled theNews Hour"stenographers to power", accusing them and othernews mediaof having a pro-establishment bias.[81]

Critical response[edit]

PBS News Hourhas received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of theLos Angeles Timeswrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS."[82]David Leonard and Micah Schwalb ofThe Denver Postwrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television."[83]Phil Owen ofTheWrapwrote, "The least partisan analysis."[84]Tim Surette ofTV Guidewrote, "The calm and credible information we need."[85]Jennifer Gerson ofThe 19thwrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history."[86]

In 2003,UCLApolitical scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on "think tank"citations to map liberal versus conservativemedia slantsand published a study alleging liberal media bias in general. Based on their research,PBS News Houris the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance.[87][88]However, their methodology has been questioned.[89]

FAIR study[edit]

In October 2006, themedia criticismgroupFairness & Accuracy in Reporting(FAIR) accused thePBS News Hourof lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of the general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints. FAIR found that thePBS News Hour'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.[90]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.[91]

News Hourexecutive producerLinda 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).[92]

Partnership with NPR[edit]

ThePBS News Hourpartnered withNPRfor the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016, in a strategy to prepare for the election betweenDonald TrumpandHillary Clinton.[93][94][95][96][97]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^PBS had revised its brand identity in 2019.[58][59]

References[edit]

  1. ^"PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer".Cue11. Archived fromthe originalon September 26, 2008.
  2. ^"Contact Us".macneil-lehrer.MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. Archived fromthe originalon November 13, 2011.RetrievedOctober 26,2011.
  3. ^"Interview with PBS NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan | THIRTEEN - New York Public Media".THIRTEEN - New York Public Media.RetrievedAugust 22,2017.
  4. ^abBrian Steinberg (March 31, 2022)."Geoff Bennett Gets Ready to Launch a Retooled 'PBS News Weekend'".Variety.Penske Media Corporation.
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    Friedland, Lewis A. (October 17, 1993)."Reach Out and Stiff Someone: Media merger: The Bell-TCI deal would lock phone and cable users into a monopoly".Los Angeles Times.RetrievedMay 26,2021.TCI is the most ruthless of the cable monopolies. Now that its president, John Malone, has joined the ranks of the information elite, he is being hailed as a visionary by America's business pages. But John Malone who told McNeil-Lehrer viewers last week that TCI would not seek monopoly control of the information industries had different views not long ago: In 1984, Malone compared the cable industry to "a game of Monopoly" and said that TCI's primary goal was to leverage cash flow and assets to buy more property. He called TCI a "mammoth tax shelter" and said that earning money and paying taxes and dividends was "stupid."

    Kleid, Beth (December 5, 1994)."MOVIES: Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services, and the nation's press".Los Angeles Times.RetrievedMay 26,2021.New 'MacNeil/Lehrer' Owner: Liberty Media Corp., a subsidiary of cable-TV giant Tele-Communications 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.May 1999.RetrievedMay 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.RetrievedMay 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.RetrievedMay 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.RetrievedMay 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."
  6. ^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.RetrievedMay 26,2021.Peter Barton has always belonged to what he calls the "squadron of the second bananas." Few outside the cable industry know who he is -- and those inside it know him best as the right-hand man to his mentor, John C. Malone, the most powerful figure in the business.
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