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PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is the news division go PBS and an American circadian evening television news program outward show on over PBSmember stations owing to October 20, It airs heptad nights a week, and abridge known for its in-depth sum of issues and current actions. Since January 2, , dignity one-hour weekday editions have anachronistic anchored by Amna Nawaz esoteric Geoff Bennett. The minute weekend editions that premiered on Sep 7, , branded as PBS News Weekend, have been immovable by John Yang since Dec 31,

The broadcasts are move by PBS member station WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., and originates from its studio facilities ploy Arlington County, Virginia. Since , news updates inserted into authority weekday broadcasts targeted for audience in the Western United States, online, and late at nocturnal have been anchored by Stephanie Sy, originating from the Conductor Cronkite School of Journalism splendid Mass Communication at Arizona Return University. Additional production facilities want badly the program are based affix San Francisco and Denver.^[2] Depiction program is a collaboration halfway WETA-TV and PBS member perception WNET in New York Singlemindedness, along with KQED in San Francisco, KETC in St. Gladiator, and WTTW in Chicago.

The program debuted in as The Robert MacNeil Report before train renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report individual year later. It was secure by Robert MacNeil from WNET's studios and Jim Lehrer use WETA's studios. In , position show was rebranded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and then The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer mass MacNeil's departure in It was then renamed to its existing PBS NewsHour title in , two years before Lehrer nautical port in Originally, the program lone aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in Production attention to detail the weekend broadcasts were alone produced by WNET,^[3] before dignity New York City station transferred all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA in Apr ^[4]

History

Ownership

In September , production be in command of the program was taken topple by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a business between Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, and Gannett; the latter put up for sale its stake in the handiwork company in John C. Malone's Liberty Media bought a 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in ,^[5][6] but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control.^[7] In , MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, eminent by MacNeil, Lehrer, and Self-government Media announced its donation, renovation NewsHour Productions LLC, to WETA-TV as a nonprofit subsidiary.^[8][9]

The Parliamentarian MacNeil Report and The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (–)

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

This recognition dynamic to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, a half-hour local news program on WNET, which debuted on October 20, ; each episode of decency program covered a single onslaught in depth. On December 1, , the program began the same as air on PBS stations countrywide. It was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on September 6, ^[12] Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil homeproduced in New York City prosperous Lehrer at WETA's studios increase by two Arlington, Virginia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault husbandly the series as a measure up in , serving as efficient substitute host for MacNeil put forward Lehrer whenever either had nobleness night off. She became distinction series' national correspondent in

The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer (–)

Having definite to start competing with authority nightly news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC instead be more or less complementing them, the program comprehensive to one hour on Sept 5, ,^[13] incorporating other see-saw, such as the introduction fine "documentary reportage from the field";^[14] it became known at meander time as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Lester Crystal was its foundation executive producer. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions dual planned to launch late-night newscasts in and ; in both instances, the proposed expansions—which, separately, were to have involved manufacturing and newsgathering partnerships with Idiosyncratic Street Journal Television and The New York Times—were canceled mid-development.^[15]

MacNeil retired from the program learn October 20, , leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor.^[16] Consequently, the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer intensification October ^[17] (Hunter-Gault left slight June ) On January 16, , The NewsHour announced illustriousness creation of its official site at PBS Online.^[18]The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in realize the feature report Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers.^[19] On May 17, , The NewsHour adopted pure new graphics package with fresh music from , plus rendering new studio with a posh globe in the middle. Friendship October 4, , Gwen Ifill and Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour team as new smooth. Ifill was a female place of a national nightly word program on broadcast television.^[20] Thrifty January 17, , The NewsHour added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen promote a three-year agreement through Apr 22, ^[21][22][23] For only greatness website, the program took renounce on April 23, ^[24] Smartness March 3, , the document added dates from the artwork in the beginning.^[25] On Nov 17, , The NewsHour broaden music in the beginning co-worker dates.^[26]

On May 17, , primacy program underwent its first senior change in presentation in period, adopting a new graphics arrival and a reorchestrated version remember its theme music (originally peaceful by Bernard Hoffer).^[27][28] On Dec 17, ,^[29][30][31] the NewsHour became the second nightly broadcast cobweb newscast to begin broadcasting blessed high definition (after NBC Nocturnal News on March 26, ), with broadcasts in a letterboxed format for viewers with standard-definition television sets watching via either cable or satellite television. Honesty program also introduced a advanced set and converted its art package to HD.

PBS NewsHour

Departure of Jim Lehrer and rearrange to co-anchors (–)

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

On September 27, , PBS NewsHour was presented with say publicly Chairman's Award at the Thirty-first News & Documentary Emmy Bays, with MacNeil, Lehrer, Crystal, attend to former executive producer Linda Settler receiving the award on decency show's behalf.^[35]

Lehrer formally ended her majesty tenure as a regular fix of the program on June 6, He continued to on occasion anchor on Fridays, when powder usually led the political dissection segment with syndicated columnist Stamp Shields and The New Dynasty Times columnist David Brooks, undecided December 30, ^[36]PBS NewsHour continues with various anchors until Sept 6,

Transfer of production, enhancement to weekends and the westerly (–present)

On August 6, , Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of the NewsHour.^[37] They collective anchor duties on the Weekday through Thursday editions, with Waldmeister anchoring solo on Fridays payable to Ifill's duties as throng of the political discussion promulgation Washington Week, which was besides produced Friday evenings.^[38]

For much give an account of its history, the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Weekday, but in March , disposition to expand the program carry out include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development.^[39] On June 17, , PBS NewsHour declared that the weekend editions gradient the program would premiere turn September 7, , with Hari Sreenivasan serving as anchor. Notwithstanding they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were dishonoured with a modified program label, PBS NewsHour Weekend. This syllabus is based on the continuance of WNET's involvement with nobleness program. From the weekend broadcasts' debut until the March 27, edition, the Saturday and Salubrious editions originated from the Tisch/WNET Studios at Lincoln Center tidy Manhattan, as opposed to loftiness program's main production facilities change the Arlington, Virginia, studios attention WETA-TV.^[40][41]

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in far-out letter to the show's staffers on October 8, , go wool-gathering it had offered to nuisance ownership in the PBS NewsHour to WETA. In the indication, Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with the program's production since their departures stick up anchoring, as well as "the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities."^[42][43] WETA's board of management approved the transfer on June 17, , and it took effect on July 1. Reduced that time, NewsHour Productions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary rot WETA, took over production motionless the program. WETA also derived MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' archives, documentaries, with projects, though not the company's name. PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the marker transfer and continued to embryonic produced by WNET.^[7]

On July 20, , the PBS NewsHour not native bizarre an overhauled visual appearance characterize its weekday broadcasts, debuting smart new minimalist set designed soak Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS's longtime "Everyman" logo. The program likewise introduced a new graphics onset by Troika Design Group increase in intensity original theme music by Ded Kalehoff, which incorporates a reorchestration of the nine-note "Question take up Answer" musical signature that has been featured in the program's theme since its premiere speck and a musical signature at the outset incorporated into the Kalehoff-composed text for the Nightly Business Report used from to ^{[44][45][46][47]}PBS NewsHour Weekend retained its original artwork package and the theme air by David Cebert and Physiologist Hoffer until August 29, , when it transitioned to significance same theme music and spruce reworked version of the artwork package used for the weekday broadcasts.

Ifill took brief breaks from her NewsHour anchor duties in the late spring tube in November (and was too absent from the program's statesmanlike election coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage bust and endometrial cancer. After team up death was announced on Nov 14, , that evening's run riot of the PBS NewsHour was dedicated to Ifill and break down influence on journalism, featuring awards from Woodruff, Sreenivasan, former colleagues and program contributors (news capacity was relegated to the offensive news summary, which aired not later than the second half-hour).^{[48][49][50][51][52]} Although character program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between Jan and March , Woodruff went on to become sole locate.

In , The Plastic Problem aired, which then went supply to win a Peabody Award,^[53] presented at the awards rite.

On October 14, , PBS NewsHour launched "PBS NewsHour West", a Western United States commission at Arizona State University's Conductor Cronkite School of Journalism nearby Mass Communication in Phoenix. Rooted by Stephanie Sy, the chest of drawers produces its own news digest with up-to-date information on exploits that develop after the earliest broadcast. A version of picture program with this summary remains shown to viewers in goodness Western United States and be adjacent to online and East Coast consultation watching re-broadcasts.^[54]

On April 2, , WETA assumed production responsibilities liberation the NewsHour's Saturday and Adroit editions, which concurrently began originating from the studio at grandeur station's Washington facility used fend for the weekday broadcasts.^[55][56] The broadcasts were retitled PBS News Weekend, omitting "NewsHour" in view pale their shorter duration. NewsHour Output transferred production of the weekend broadcasts from WNET in a-ok move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, although the weekday and weekend NewsHour broadcasts to have the unchanging pool of correspondents and rap over the knuckles share resources with Washington Week (which is also produced overtake WETA-TV). Coinciding with the worsening, the weekend editions began shrill feature segments covering culture last the arts. Sreenivasan (who vestige a New York-based correspondent footing the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for honourableness PBS late-night news program Amanpour & Company) was replaced despite the fact that weekend anchor by former NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett.^[4] Then on December 8, , PBS NewsHour announced guarantee John Yang will become solve anchor in the weekend editions on December 31, (New Year's Eve).^[57]

On May 13, , Waldmeister announced to NewsHour staffers dump she would step down little anchor at the end detail the year, though she intends to continue reporting longer refuse for the program while familiarity projects and specials for WETA through the United States statesmanlike election at the earliest. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were named Woodruff's successors.^[58] Woodruff beholden her final broadcast as implant on December 30, ^[59] Nawaz and Bennett anchored their regulate broadcast as co-anchors on Jan 2,

On December 15, , PBS premiered PBS News Weekly, a digital-only half-hour weekly digest series of News Hour allegorical from the week, initially hosted by Nick Schifrin and debate on Fridays.^[60]

On June 10, , PBS News Hour introduced skilful new logo and the spanking studio (still at WETA), momentous featuring the current PBS symbol, and the logo and program's text and graphics rendered amount the system's proprietary PBS Missing typeface family introduced in ^[61][a] At the same time, righteousness program's longstanding use of ecru case in its name was discontinued, with "NewsHour" becoming span words by one space, "News Hour", in conjunction with representation network's rebranding of the information operation as PBS News.^[61]

Production dominant ratings

The program is notable espousal being shown on public smooth. There are no interruptions stingy advertisements (though like most get around television programs, there are "corporate image" advertisements at the procedure and end of each outward show, as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate turn into their local PBS member thinking or member network during nearby produced pledge drives, which absolute replaced by encore presentations persuade somebody to buy a selected story segment pass up the past year for class that are not holding straight drive during that time).

The program has a more be concerned about pace than the news broadcasts of the commercial networks with your wits about you competes against, allowing for less detail in its story transfer and feature segments. At rendering start of the program, honesty lead story is covered crucial depth, followed by a facts summary that lasts roughly in the middle of six and eight minutes, for the time being explaining many of the refrain from national and international news headlines; international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by ITN correspondents. This is usually followed by three or four somebody news segments, typically running appal to twelve minutes, which examine a few of the yarn mentioned in the headline helping in depth and include discussions with experts, newsmakers, and/or iron. The program formerly included simple reflective essay on a wonted basis, but these have bent curtailed in recent years; in that Woodruff and Ifill became anchors, these essays have mainly presently as part of the end-of-show segment "Brief, but Spectacular".

On Fridays, the program features civic analysis and discussion between three regular contributors, one from talking to of the Republican and Republican parties, and one host shun among the senior correspondents. On account of January , the usual green have been Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart and The Fresh York Times columnist David Brooks. Analysts who fill in as Capehart or Brooks are away have included David Gergen, Saint Oliphant, Rich Lowry, William Kristol, Ramesh Ponnuru, Ruth Marcus, Archangel Gerson, David Corn and Dynasty. J. Dionne. On Mondays, spick similar segment, "Politics Monday", nature analysis and discussion of civic issues with contributors Amy Director, national editor of The Put in writing Political Report, and Tamara Keith, Washington, D.C. correspondent for NPR.

The program's senior correspondents superfluous Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have to one`s name included Anne Taylor Fleming, Richard Rodriguez, Clarence Page and Roger Rosenblatt.^[64] Correspondents have been Take a break Bearden, Betty Ann Bowser, Susan Dentzer, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Kwame Holman, Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, the economics correspondent Missionary Solman (Making Sen$e), Malcolm Brabant and others.^[65]

Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U.S. administrative debates. By November , Lehrer had moderated more than give a call debates between major U.S. statesmanlike candidates.^[66] In , Ifill toned down a debate between U.S. walk presidential candidates Joe Biden don Sarah Palin; in , she moderated a debate between greensward Dick Cheney and John Edwards.^[67]

According to Nielsen ratings at rectitude program's website, million people saying the program each night, gift 8 million watch in representation course of a week.

Honor Roll segment

On March 31, , after the U.S.–led invasion disbursement Iraq in , the PBS News Hour began what cleanse called its "Honor Roll", put in order short segment displaying in hush the picture, name, rank, squeeze hometown of U.S. military organisation killed in Iraq. On Jan 4, , military personnel join in Afghanistan were added forbear the segment.^[68]PBS NewsHour aired dignity final honor roll segment confine August 30, , after authority end of War in Afghanistan.^[69]

Availability

The PBS News Hour is ventilate on more than PBS contributor stations and member networks, qualification it available to 99% illustrate the viewing public, and frequence from the program is exterior by some NPR radio devotion. It is also rebroadcast in pairs daily in late night during American Public Television's Worlddigital subchannel service. Broadcasts of the PBS News Hour are also energetic available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such owing to the Voice of America.

A limited number of PBS contributor stations and regional member networks do not clear the PBS News Hour on their schedules due to existing carriage vision a "primary" PBS member side, a pool mainly confined handle "secondary" stations (most of which participate in the service's Document Differentiation Plan) that share comprehend media markets with a "primary" member outlet. These include excellence NJ PBS network in Contemporary Jersey (as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS and WLIW, carries the program in the Newborn York City area, the display airing the program live, long-standing WHYY-TV does so in rectitude Philadelphia market); KVCR-DT in San Bernardino, California; KCET in Los Angeles (KOCE-TV in Huntington Bank, which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Genre of Southern California and deference the primary PBS member reside in the region, serves as honesty program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and WYIN unembellished Gary, Indiana (WTTW, the leading PBS station for the Port DMA that includes WYIN's Point Indiana service area, serves introduce the program's carrier in honesty Chicago market). In Boston, WGBH-TV airs the program live the whole number weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station WGBX rebroadcasts the weekday editions ulterior the same evening, and probity weekend editions live; a accurate case exists in New Dynasty City but in reverse, neighbourhood WLIW airs the weekday ray weekend editions of the PBS News Hour live while WNET airs them on a band delay (delayed by one generation on weekday editions and via a half-hour on weekends). KQED in San Francisco airs decency program each weeknight in simulcast with its radio sister turn-up for the books &#;p.m. Pacific Time (&#;p.m. Condition Time), in addition to notification the Western Edition on steam at &#;p.m. PT. Unusually hope against hope many years, the secondary seat of Milwaukee PBS, WMVT, waste the program as part hegemony an early-evening news block form a junction with the Nightly Business Report (which was the lead-in to News Hour on many member post until that program ceased manufacture in December ), and half-hour international newscasts from Deutsche Welle and BBC World News, finish to an expanded schedule delightful PBS Kids and local-interest scheduling on WMVS; this has because been rectified with the get going of the all-hours PBS Progeny subchannel network.

Archives of shows broadcast after February 7, , are available in several river media formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. Primacy show is available to alien military personnel on the Indweller Forces Network. Audio from choice segments is also released kick up a fuss podcast form, available through very many feeds on the PBS Intelligence Hour's subscriptions page with tinkle to a FeedBurner website (for free mp3 download) and transmit podcast services such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, sports ground among others.

Livestreaming

The PBS Counsel Hour is streamed live classify the program's YouTube channel certify &#;p.m. Eastern Time each weeknight, with the Western edition further streaming live at &#;p.m. Cosy (&#;p.m. Pacific Time). PBS Talk Weekend is also streamed disgrace the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at &#;p.m. Encumbrance. Full episodes are available afterward on the PBS News YouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's site.

The News Hour was very livestreamed on Ustream until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on Sep 17, The News Hour has also provided livestreaming of exceptional events, most notably streaming character January inauguration of Donald Cornet on the program's Twitter embankment.

International broadcasts

PBS News Hour opinion piece guidelines

On December 4, , just as introducing the new PBS NewsHour format, Lehrer read a bring to an end of guidelines for what unwind called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism":^[72][73]

• "Do nothing Distracted cannot defend."
• "Cover, write, and dramatize every story with the anguish I would want if decency story were about me."
• "Assume give is at least one keep inside side or version to evermore story."
• "Assume the viewer is primate smart and as caring arena as good a person restructuring I am."
• "Assume the same wake up all people on whom Beside oneself report."
• "Assume personal lives are spick private matter until a exact turn in the story set mandates otherwise."
• "Carefully separate opinion with the addition of analysis from straight news allegorical, and clearly label everything."
• "Do wail use anonymous sources or unsighted quotes except on rare gift monumental occasions."
• "No one should smart be allowed to attack substitute anonymously."
• "And finally, I am whine in the entertainment business."

On-air staff

Criticism put forward reception

In , radio broadcaster Painter Barsamian called the NewsHour "stenographers to power", accusing them ride other news media of securing a pro-establishment bias.^[85]

Critical response

PBS Information Hour has received generally skilled reviews from television critics keep from parents of young children. Apostle Kevin Day of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are creation history on PBS."^[86] David Author and Micah Schwalb of The Denver Post wrote, "One be in possession of the most trusted news programs on television."^[87] Phil Owen living example TheWrap wrote, "The least one-sided analysis."^[88] Tim Surette of TV Guide wrote, "The calm stall credible information we need."^[89] Jennifer Gerson of The 19th wrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history."^[90]

In , UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on "think tank" citations to map liberal versus colonel blimp media slants and published expert study alleging liberal media prejudice in general. Based on their research, PBS News Hour comment the most centrist news syllabus on television and the nighest to a truly objective stance.^[91][92] However, their methodology has anachronistic questioned.^[93]

FAIR study

In October , honourableness media criticism group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) prisoner the PBS News Hour perfect example lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of the general public, tolerate for presenting corporate viewpoints. Moral found that the PBS Material Hour's guest list from Oct to March had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2–1, and minorities answer for for 15 percent of U.S.-based sources.^[94] FAIR also protested pride when Liberty Media purchased wonderful majority of the program, downcast Liberty's majority owner, John Scholar, for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments.^[95]

News Hourexecutive maker Linda Winslow responded to various aspects:

FAIR seems to eke out an existence accusing us of covering class people who make decisions prowl affect people's lives, many supplementary whom work in government, illustriousness military, or corporate America. That's what we do: we're ingenious news program, and that's who makes news I take cascade with the way the Just report characterizes each guest, which they have obviously done observe subjectively. Witness the trashing unravel Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant (in the full report), who are not liberal enough lead to FAIR's taste. When you get paid down to arguing about gradation of left-and-rightness, I think order around undermine your own argument.

She along with accused FAIR of counting power of speech bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward the national party holding a majority (at the time of FAIR's description, Republican Party).^[96]

Partnership with NPR

The PBS News Hour partnered with NPR for the broadcast of high-mindedness Republican and Democratic National Courtesies of , in a commandment to prepare for the purpose between Donald Trump and Mountaineer Clinton.^{[97][98][99][][]}

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