A former reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Ifill switched to television in the 1990s and covered politics and Congress for NBC News. She moved to PBS in 1999 as host of Washington Week and also worked for the nightly PBS NewsHour. She and Judy Woodruff were named NewsHour co-anchors in 2013.
Public media producer WGBH Boston, the Library of Congress and WETA Washington will digitize, preserve and allow the public online access to PBS NewsHour’s predecessor programs from 1975 to 2007, made possible with funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The project will digitize nearly 10,000 programs comprising more than 8,000 recorded hours that chronicle American and foreign affairs, providing access to original source material.
Exclusives
NPR News and PBS NewsHour will cover the 2016 political conventions together: one team of journalists and one broadcast, designed to work for radio and television as well as digital audiences.
The PBS NewsHour relaunched its website in February 2014 and has since seen a significant jump in its traffic. January 2015 marked its highest monthly page views ever — 9.4 million over 4.1 million the same time last year. There’s now more of an effort to bridge online and on-air content and a much more mobile-friendly iteration, and it’s paying off.
The pages of The Atlantic are coming to television in a new partnership with PBS NewsHour that will produce and air the first regular broadcast adaptation of Atlantic reporting. For the series, which premieres tonight, NewsHour and The Atlantic are collaborating to produce TV segments based on the magazine’s cover and feature stories for air on the NewsHour and to run online at PBS.org/NewsHour and TheAtlantic.com.
The former Washington deputy bureau chief for ABC News, says she wants to modernize the venerable public broadcasting news program.
Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil say they are talking with the Washington public television station WETA, PBS NewsHour’s co-producer, about taking over ownership of the show.
Woodruff: Unflappable Anchor, Huge Heart
To millions of viewers, Judy Woodruff is the unflappable co-anchor of PBS NewsHour, an award-winning journalist who has for decades covered the news reliably and with distinction. The Judy Woodruff that I have known for 35 years is also an extraordinary mother, wife, daughter, public citizen and friend.
In the first two weeks of broadcasts, segments covered recent discoveries of natural gas deposits in Israel, to efforts of harvesting tidal energy off Maine’s coast. It also features local arts coverage produced by PBS member stations, spearheaded by WNET New York.
Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff start their stint as the regular co-hosts of PBS NewsHour on Monday — the first women to co-anchor a national daily TV news program. They will be the faces for a newscast known for many years as the home of founders Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil.
Both companies are working to create an integrated solution that will let broadcasters send out video highlights on Twitter and Facebook through a LiveU bonded cellular device. For now, both companies are promoting each other’s services as referral partners.
For many of its 38 years, the sober studio-interview format of the PBS NewsHour has served the program well, drawing viewers and corporate underwriters alike. But with a deep financing crisis forcing layoffs and other cutbacks this week, some public television employees believe that format — and a general unwillingness to embrace the digital realities facing journalism — may be jeopardizing the program’s future.
A decision on adding half-hour Saturday and Sunday editions of the popular news program is not expected before the end of the month.
Visual journalist and multimedia editor Tom Kennedy has been tapped to lead the PBS NewsHour‘s online news operations as managing editor/digital news. Kennedy brings over 35 years of print and […]
The program, which is losing its political editor and its managing editor of digital news, has also heard grumblings about its new rotating roster of anchors.
Beginning June 6 the long-time anchor of PBS Newshour will no longer be part of the regular daily anchor rotation team, but he will still appear on many Friday evenings.
