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April 2024

  • Black and white image of Robert MacNeil sitting at a desk.

    Robert MacNeil, co-anchor of PBS’s NewsHour segment, dies aged 93

    The news anchor first gained prominence for his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings in 1975

March 2024

  • A tall, light-skinned, mixed-race man with a huge poofy Afro smiles broadly as he stands with his hands behind his back, wearing a collared black shirt with orange flowers and a red-and-black-checked blazer.

    ‘So happy you’re here’: how a librarian became an advocate for mental health

    Mychal Threets’ sudden rise to fame as a pusher of ‘library joy’ isn’t over despite his exit from his job to focus on himself

September 2023

  • A Walk in the Woods is seen on display at the home of Modern Artifact owner Ryan Nelson in Wayzata, Minnesota.

    Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m

    Minneapolis gallery puts A Walk in the Woods, the first of over 400 paintings Ross produced for The Joy of Painting, up for sale

June 2023

  • female patient in hospital

    The last health taboo: why are so many women still suffering with endometriosis?

    It affects around 200m people globally yet as a new Hillary Clinton-produced documentary shows, endometriosis is still a misunderstood and under-researched condition

April 2023

  • PBS logo on smartphone

    PBS quits Twitter after being labeled ‘government-funded media’

    Broadcaster leaves platform a day after NPR’s exit over concerns labels undermine credibility as independent news outlets

May 2022

  • ‘It’s not a simple conversation to have and it’s important for every city to constantly keep figuring this out.’

    Police on Trial: two years after the killing of George Floyd, what has changed?

    The Minneapolis murder led to protests and calls for structural change but a new documentary shows that the journey to racial equality remains long

December 2021

  • Jim Henson and Frank Oz introduce some lucky visitors to Bert and Ernie.

    The secret history of Sesame Street: ‘It was utopian – it’s part of who we all are’

    In 1970, David Attie was sent to photograph the birth of the kids’ landmark TV show as part of a cold war propaganda drive by the US government. But these newly found images are just one part of the programme’s radical history

May 2021

  • Rodney Stotts and his bird.

    ‘You care for birds, and they heal you’: film profiles world of a Black falconer

    A new documentary, The Falconer, follows Rodney Stotts, who found fulfillment in working with raptors and inner-city kids

March 2021

  • Ken Burns<br>FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series “Country Music,” takes part in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Speaking Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, to the Television Critics Association in a virtual Q&amp;A, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger rejected a filmmaker’s claim that public TV’s long relationship with Burns has come at the expense of diversity. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

    Film-makers condemn PBS over lack of diversity and dependence on Ken Burns

    Almost 140 non-fiction film-makers seek transparency about programming, spending and staffing

February 2021

  • Ernest Hemingway at his typewriter as he works on For Whom the Bell Tolls at Sun Valley lodge, Idaho, in 1939.

    'Lucky for him he could write': Ken Burns takes on Ernest Hemingway

    Too white, too male, too privileged – and according to some critics, that’s just one of the co-directors. A new PBS documentary on an American giant sails in stormy waters

July 2019

  • ‘War is where human beings reveal themselves most prominently’ … an image from Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War. Next he tackles Country Music.

    Ken Burns on America: 'We're a strange and complicated people'

    Through war, baseball and music, Burns’ monumental TV documentaries have told the story of the USA – a mission he says is even more urgent in the age of ‘alternative facts’

June 2019

  • ‘I went down the wrong path’ ... Nicu in Bruce Lee and the Outlaw

    TV review
    Bruce Lee and the Outlaw review – brutal, beautiful portrait of a Romanian street kid

    Following Nicu as he goes from a 12-year-old boy to a man, this documentary is as beautiful in form as its content is ugly

October 2018

  • Gregory Peck in the film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird voted top 'Great American Read' in US poll

    Millions of American readers voted Harper Lee’s renowned story about racism as their favourite novel in six-month PBS poll

April 2018

  • Author composite: EL James and Margaret Atwood

    EL James v Margaret Atwood? The search for America's best-loved novel is on

    Broadcaster PBS has launched the Great American Read, setting the nation a summer reading challenge

February 2018

  • FILE - In this June 1, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. A new poll finds that less than a third of Americans support Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, with just 18 percent of respondents agreeing with his claim that pulling out of the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S. economy.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

    Climate consensus - the 97%
    News network climate reporting soared in 2017 thanks to Trump

    Dana Nuccitelli: But the networks need to improve reporting on climate events unrelated to Trump

November 2017

  • Charlie Rose, in a statement earlier this week, apologized for his actions and said he was ‘deeply embarrassed’.

    Charlie Rose: two US universities rescind honors in wake of 'egregious' allegations

  • PaleyLive NY: The News Is Back: CBS News This Morning and the Morning Landscape, New York, USA - 01 Nov 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Patrick Lewis/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock (9186241ae) Charlie Rose PaleyLive NY: The News Is Back: CBS News This Morning and the Morning Landscape, New York, USA - 01 Nov 2017

    CBS suspends Charlie Rose after sexual harassment and groping allegations

May 2017

  • The BBC’s royally entertaining adaptation of King Charles III.

    'Distasteful': BBC's King Charles III sparks anger even before it is aired

    Drama depicting warring Windsors, a scheming Kate and Princess Diana’s ghost already has one Tory politician up in arms

March 2017

  • ‘SESAME STREET’ TV - 1969 - PRESENT<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage Mandatory Credit: Photo by Everett/REX/Shutterstock (464055b) ‘Sesame Street’, Oscar the Grouch ‘SESAME STREET’ TV - 1969 - PRESENT

    Climate Consensus - the 97%
    PBS is the only network reporting on climate change. Trump wants to cut it

    Dana Nuccitelli: During a record-breaking hot presidential election year, American news networks failed to report on climate change

November 2016

  • FILE: Gwen Ifill Dead At 61<br>FILE: Long-time PBS journalist Gwen Ifill has died at the age of 61 after battling cancer. WASHINGTON - MARCH 09: PBS?s “Washington Week” moderator Gwen Ifill speaks during a taping of “Meet the Press” at the NBC studios March 9, 2008 in Washington, DC. Ifill discussed various topics including the race between Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)

    Gwen Ifill, PBS Newshour anchor and veteran journalist, dies aged 61

    The pioneering journalist moderated two vice-presidential debates and was called ‘a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity’ in the industry
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