''PBS NewsHour'' is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350

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member stations. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Anchored by

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, the program's weekday broadcasts run for one hour and are produced by

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From August 5, 2013, to November 11, 2016, Woodruff and then-co-anchor

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were the first and only all-female anchor team on a national nightly news program on American broadcast television. On Saturdays and Sundays, PBS distributes a 30-minute edition of the program, ''PBS News Weekend'', anchored by

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; originally produced in

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, production of the weekend broadcasts transferred to WETA in April 2022. The ''PBS NewsHour'' originates from WETA's studio facilities in

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; news updates inserted into the weekday broadcasts targeted for the

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, online, and late-night viewers originate from the

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. Additional production facilities for the program are based in

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and

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. The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV, WNET, and fellow PBS member stations KQED in

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History

Ownership

In September 1981, production of the program was taken over by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a partnership between

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, and

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bought a 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994, but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control. In 2014, ''MacNeil/Lehrer Productions'', owned by MacNeil, Lehrer, and

announced its donation, as ''NewsHour Productions LLC'', to

as a nonprofit subsidiary.

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

In 1973,

(a former

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correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's ''

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'') and

teamed up to cover the

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for PBS. They earned an

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for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage. 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. 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.

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joined the series as correspondent in 1978, serving as substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off. She became the series’ national correspondent in 1983.

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

Having decided to start competing with the nightly news programs on

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instead of complementing them, the program expanded to one hour on September 5, 1983, incorporating other changes, such as the introduction of "documentary reportage from the field"; 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 ''

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''—were canceled mid-development. MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor. (Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.) Accordingly, the program was renamed ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' on October 23. On January 16, 1996, ''The NewsHour'' announced the creation of its official website at PBS Online. ''The NewsHour'' won a

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in 2003 for the feature report ''Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers''. On May 17, 1999, ''The NewsHour'' adopted a new graphics package, but refreshed the music from 1983. 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. Effective January 17, 2000, ''The NewsHour'' added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen for a three-year agreement through April 22, 2003. For only the website, the program took effect on April 23, 2003. On March 3, 2003, the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning. On November 17, 2003, ''The NewsHour'' added music in the beginning with dates. 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

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). On December 17, 2007, the ''NewsHour'' became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition (after ''

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'' on March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in a

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format for viewers with

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sets watching via either

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. The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD.

''PBS NewsHour''

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

On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year under a revised title, the ''PBS NewsHour''. In addition to increased integration between the ''NewsHour'' website and nightly broadcast, the updated production returned to a two-anchor format. 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. 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

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and David Brooks, until December 30, 2011.

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

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On August 6, 2013,

and

were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of the ''NewsHour''. 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 ''

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,'' which was also produced Friday evenings. 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. Weekend editions of the ''NewsHour'' premiered on September 7, 2013, with

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, as opposed to the program's main production facilities at the Arlington, Virginia, studios of WETA-TV. 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." 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. 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 program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by

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, 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 ''

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'' used from 2002 to 2010. ''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

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coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage

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. 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). Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff effectively now serves as sole anchor. In 2018, ''The Plastic Problem'' aired, which then went on to win a

, presented at the 2019 awards ceremony. On October 14, 2019, ''PBS NewsHour'' launched "''PBS NewsHour'' West", a Western United States bureau at

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. 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. 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 ''

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'') was replaced as weekend anchor by

and

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correspondent Geoff Bennett. 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

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at the earliest.

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and

will reportedly be Woodruff's successors.

Production and ratings

The program is notable for being shown on

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. 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

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s, 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

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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 Party and Democratic parties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have been ''

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'' columnist Jonathan Capehart and ''

'' columnist David Brooks. Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included

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, Ruth Marcus,

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and

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. On Mondays, a similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors

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, national editor of ''

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'', and

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, Washington, D.C. correspondent for

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. The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming,

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and

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. Correspondents have been Tom Bearden,

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, Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, the economics correspondent

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(''Making Sen$e''),

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and others. 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. In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and

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; in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidates

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Honor Roll segment

On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–led

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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. According to

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at the program's

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, 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

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Availability

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

radio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via

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service. Broadcasts of the ''PBS NewsHour'' are also made available worldwide via

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s operated by various agencies such as the

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. 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

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s with a "primary" member outlet. These include the

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network in

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(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 WHYY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, serving as the primary PBS member station for the Philadelphia area. It is owned by WHYY, Inc., alongside NPR member station WHYY-FM 90.9. WHYY-TV and ...

does so in the

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market);

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;

KCET KCET (channel 28) is a secondary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's primary PBS member, Huntington Beach–licensed KOCE-TV ...

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(

KOCE-TV KOCE-TV (channel 50) is a PBS member television station licensed to Huntington Beach, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's secondary PBS membe ...

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, which shares ownership with KCET through parent

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and is the primary PBS member in the region, serves as the program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and

WYIN WYIN (channel 56), branded on-air as Lakeshore PBS, is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. It is owned by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., as a sister station t ...

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(

, the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN's

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service area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston,

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airs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station

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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.

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(6:00 p.m.

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), in addition to airing the Western Edition on television at 6:00 p.m. PT. Unusually for many years, the secondary station of

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, carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with the ''

'' (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

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and

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, due to an expanded schedule of

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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

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formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on the

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. Audio from select segments is also released in

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form, available through several feeds on the PBS NewsHour's subscriptions page with link to a

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website (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such as

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, and among others.

Livestreaming

The ''PBS NewsHour'' is streamed live on the program's

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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

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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

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on the program's

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account.

International broadcasts

* In the United Kingdom it is seen daily at 6am on ABN TV on the

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platform. * In Australia the program is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. AEST on SBS. * In New Zealand the ''NewsHour'' is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 10 p.m. on Face TV (Auckland). * In Japan the program is seen every weekday on

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. * Around the world for members of the

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on the

. * The program is seen internationally through the

''PBS NewsHour'' editorial guidelines

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

Current

– weekday anchor (joined September 5, 1983 – June 24, 1993; joined

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Group and returned to PBS on April 12, 2006; planning to step down as main anchor on December 30, 2022) * Jeffrey Brown – chief correspondent for arts, culture, and society, substitute weekday anchor (joined December 23, 1998) * John Yang – special correspondent, substitute weekday and weekend anchor (joined March 1, 2016) * Miles O'Brien – science and aviation correspondent, substitute anchor (joined February 9, 2010) *

Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins ( née Goddard; born January 29, 1972) is an American political journalist. She is a correspondent at ''PBS NewsHour'' and has previously worked for the Associated Press and CNN Radio. As of 2018, she has reported on five U.S. pre ...

– political correspondent (joined October 29, 2014) * William Brangham – regular interviewer and occasional substitute anchor for the weekday and weekend program (joined August 10, 2012) *

– Chief Correspondent and White House correspondent on Fridays (joined April 6, 2018; replacing Judy Woodruff on January 2, 2023) *Laura Barrón-López – White House correspondent (joined on June 16, 2022) * Michael Hill – substitute anchor for weekends (joined in September 2020) *

Nick Schifrin Nick Schifrin (born July 10, 1980) is an American journalist. He is the ''PBS NewsHour'' foreign affairs and defense correspondent. He was previously Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent and a correspondent for ABC News in London and ...

– foreign affairs and defense correspondent and substitute anchor (joined February 10, 2016) *

– business, economics and occasional art correspondent, creator of ''Making Sen$e'' (joined September 1, 1978) *

– special correspondent, especially reporting from Europe, based in Denmark (joined June 15, 2015) *

– chief Washington DC correspondent and weekend anchor (joined January 3, 2022 and weekend editions on April 2, 2022; replacing Judy Woodruff on January 2, 2023) *

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– substitute weekend anchor (joined September 27, 2013) *

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– substitute weekend anchor (joined January 11, 2013) *

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– special correspondent for the Weekend program (joined April 11, 2015) *

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– foreign affairs editor (joined June 19, 2013) * Fred de Sam Lazaro – correspondent and contributor to the ''Agents For Change'' series (joined December 10, 1985) *

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– correspondent and PBS NewsHour West anchor (joined October 14, 2019) *

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– senior digital political reporter on air during election night coverage (joined November 2015) *

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Political analysts

* David Brooks of ''

'' (Fridays; joined September 21, 2001) * Jonathan Capehart of ''

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'' (Fridays; joined January 8, 2021) *

of ''

'' (Mondays; joined November 1, 2012) *

Amy Walter Amy Elizabeth Walter (born October 19, 1969)"Profile: Amy Walter"

of ''

'' (Mondays and election night; joined July 29, 2004) *

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(weekends) *

of ''

'' (substitute) *

Susan Page Susan Lea Page (born February 12, 1951) is an American journalist and biographer, and the Washington DC Bureau Chief for ''USA Today'' newspaper. Early life Page, a native of Wichita, Kansas, is a 1973 graduate of Northwestern University's Med ...

of ''

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'' (substitute; joined July 16, 2018) *

Stuart Rothenberg Stuart Rothenberg is an American editor, publisher, and political analyst. He is best known for his biweekly political newsletter ''The Rothenberg Political Report'', now known as ''Inside Elections''. He was also a regular columnist at ''Roll Ca ...

of ''Inside Elections'' (substitute; joined October 30, 1992)

Former

– weekday anchor (October 20, 1975 – October 20, 1995; retired) *

– 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) *

– weekday anchor (December 8, 1977 – June 13, 1997; retired) *

– correspondent (1983 – 2014; retired) *

Margaret Warner Margaret Garrard Warner (born February 12, 1950) is a senior correspondent for '' The PBS NewsHour''. Before joining the ''NewsHour'' in 1993, she was a reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'', the ''Concord Mon ...

– weekday anchor (June 24, 1993 – September 7, 2017; now a White House correspondent after leaving ''NewsHour'') *

– Monday-Thursday anchor (also a Senior Correspondent) (October 4, 1999 – November 14, 2016; died from

) *

Ray Suarez Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and author. He is currently a visiting professor at NYU Shanghai and was previously the John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Am ...

– weekday anchor (October 4, 1999 – October 25, 2013; moved to

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, and left ''NewsHour'' after the launch of 2013's ''NewsHour'' with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff) * Terence Smith – weekday anchor (August 17, 1998 – November 23, 2005; retired) *

Yamiche Alcindor Yamiche Léone Alcindor ( ; born November 1, 1986) is an American journalist who is the host of ''Washington Week'' on PBS and a Washington correspondent for NBC News. In the past, she has worked as a reporter for ''PBS NewsHour'', ''USA Today'', ...

– White House correspondent (December 31, 2015 – January 7, 2022; moved to

)

Political analysts

(Fridays; March 30, 1981 – March 18, 1994) *

of ''

'' (substitute) *

Paul Gigot Paul Anthony Gigot (; born May 24, 1955) is an American Pulitzer Prize–winning conservative political commentator and editor of the editorial pages for ''The Wall Street Journal''. He is also the moderator of the public affairs television ser ...

(Fridays; March 25, 1994 – September 14, 2001) *

as a syndicated columnist (Fridays; November 11, 1988 – December 18, 2020; died on June 18, 2022, from

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)

Criticism and reception

In 1992, radio broadcaster

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called the ''NewsHour'' "stenographers to power", accusing them and other

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of having a pro-establishment bias.

Critical response

''PBS NewsHour'' has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of the ''

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'' wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS." David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of ''

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'' wrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television." Phil Owen of ''

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'' wrote, "The least partisan analysis." Tim Surette of ''

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'' wrote, "The calm and credible information we need." In 2003,

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political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on "

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" 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. However, their methodology has been questioned.

FAIR study

In October 2006 the

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group

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(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. FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program, citing Liberty's majority owner,

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, for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments. ''NewsHour''

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Linda Winslow responded to many aspects: 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).

Partnership with NPR

The ''PBS NewsHour'' partnered with

for the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016, in a strategy to prepare for the election between

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and

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

References

External links

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"''PBS NewsHour''" Special Collection.
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