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The World Health Organization (WHO) released Thursday new guidance on the ethics and governance of generative Artificial intelligence (AI)'s large multi-modal models (LMMs) for healthcare, outlining the potential benefits and risks of the technology…

WHO Outlines Ethics And Governance Guidance For Health Applications Of Generative AI LMMs

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has maintained its oil demand growth forecast for 2024, keeping it unchanged from last month at 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd). OPEC's 2024 outlook The oil demand in the Organisation for…

OPEC Reaffirms 2024 Oil Demand Growth Forecast Of 2.2M BPD, Anticipates Robust Surge In 2025

The UAE has unveiled plans to develop EcoMark Global Accreditation—the first-ever sustainability accreditation framework focusing specifically on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), according to a statement issued Wednesday. New…

UAE Unveils 'EcoMark' Green Accreditation Framework For MSMEs

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned on Monday that 2024 is expected to be a challenging fiscal year due to potentially increased spending amid elections scheduled in around 80 countries. 'Tough…

IMF Chief Warns Of Spending Pressure In 2024 Due To Worldwide Elections

Etisalat by e& has released a white paper outlining the latest advances in 5G networks taking place in the UAE, according to a statement issued Wednesday. 5G-Advanced The white paper sheds light on the role of Etisalat by e& in the UAE's transition…

Etisalat By e& Releases White Paper On UAE's Transition To 5G-Advanced

Turkiye has raised the monthly minimum wage to $578.31 (TRY 17,002) effective January 2024, according to an announcement by the Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security, Vedat Isikhan, Wednesday. Wage rise “With this figure, there has been a 49…

Turkey Increases Minimum Wage by 49% Amid Economic Reforms

The UAE-based mobility solutions provider Swvl has reported a net profit of $2.1 million for the first half of 2023, indicating a return to profitability after incurring a net loss of $161.6 million in the same period last year. Swvl H1 profits…

Swvl Shares Surge As It Posts $2.1M Net Profit In H1 2023

The Turkish lira plunged to a new record low against the US dollar Wednesday, one week after the latest rate hike, as Turkiye seeks to stabilize its economy by departing from years of unorthodox economic policies. Plunging lira The Turkish lira…

Turkish Lira Falls To Record Low Amid Government Efforts To Stabilize Economy

The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced a further extension of the Chinese Section 301 tariff exclusions until the end of May, covering 352 Chinese products and 77 COVID-19-related categories of products. China tariffs “The…

US Extends Tariff Exemptions On Some Chinese Products Until May 2024

Oil prices surged over 2% Tuesday amid volatility in the Middle East region and optimism regarding a cut in the US Federal Reserve’s key rates in its upcoming meetings. Prices surge WTI crude settled 2.7% higher at $75.57 per barrel Tuesday, while…

Oil Prices Rise Over 2% Amid Middle East Volatility, US Fed Rate Cut Hopes

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reportedly said that Iran’s pace of the enrichment of uranium is rebounding after months of slowdown. Enrichment pace The global nuclear watchdog said that Iran has escalated its production of highly…

Nuclear Watchdog Reports Rebound In Iran's Uranium Enrichment Pace After Months of Slowdown

Egypt has raised $6.5 billion by selling stakes in 14 state-owned companies, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli announced in an international press conference Wednesday.

Egypt Raises $6.5B From Sale Of Stakes In 14 State-Owned Firms

Kuwait's newly sworn-in Emir, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, issued a decree Wednesday accepting the government's resignation and called for ministers to resume their duties while criticizing the performance of both the government and lawmakers.…

Kuwait’s New Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Vows Objective Accountability After Taking Oath

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued decrees to transfer the multi-billion dollar stakes of Germany’s Wintershall Dea and Austria’s OMV in Russian Arctic gas extraction projects to new Russian companies. Presidential decrees The stakes held by…

Russia To Transfer Wintershell, OMV Stakes In Its Arctic Gas Extraction Projects To Local Companies

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EU Approves $164M Aid Package For Tunisia's Economic Recovery

Germany’s Lufthansa Group has ordered 80 airplanes from Airbus and Boeing while agreeing to future purchase options for a total value of $9 billion, according to a statement issued Tuesday. New order Lufthansa said that it was purchasing 80…

Lufthansa Orders 80 Aircraft From Airbus, Boeing And Agrees To Future Purchase Options For $9B

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company OpenAI has unveiled new guidelines to gauge “catastrophic risks” posted by AI models currently under development, according to a statement released Monday. Safety plan OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company behind…

OpenAI Launches Framework To Measure ‘Catastrophic Risks’ Posed By AI Models

President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued a new law establishing the UAE Accountability Authority as the supreme authority for financial control, auditing, integrity, and transparency in the country. New authority The new authority is…

UAE President Establishes Accountability Authority To Boost Integrity Of Public Finances

The European Commission (EC) announced Monday that it has initiated formal proceedings against Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, to assess potential violations of the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA). Proceedings The proceedings…

European Commission Launches Formal Proceedings Against Elon Musk's X Over Potential DSA Violations

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi secured Monday re-election for a third term until 2030, the country's National Election Authority (NEA) announced in a press conference. Re-election El-Sisi grabbed 39.7 million votes, representing 89.6% of…

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi Clinches Third Term With 89.6% Majority Votes

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‘Owl Song’ by Ambrose Akinmusire Review: A Tranquil Jazz Trio

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‘A Lovesome Thing’ by Geri Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel Review: A Single Evening With a Singular Jazz Duo

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‘Hear the Light Singing’ by Myra Melford Review: Jazz Medium, Abstract Message

In collaboration with jazz luminaries Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore on Refract, the electronic musician known as BlankFor.ms revels in the unpredictability and imperfections of cassettes. September 15, 2023 by Larry Blumenfeld At his home studio in…

BlankFor.ms: Tape loops ‘as a winding, twisting, crooked canvas’

By Larry Blumenfeld Celebrated with a new boxed set, Dorothy Ashby’s legacy resonates more clearly than ever. “If It’s Magic” is the gentlest of tracks on Stevie Wonder’s 1976 opus Songs in the Key of Life. Back in high school, when this expansive…

Dorothy Ashby: She Made the Harp Swing

The violist and his band continue to defy easy categorization as they draw from their varied pasts and mesh genres from classical to Eastern European folk, producing novel results

‘Ash’ by Mat Maneri Quartet Review: Jazz That Treasures the In-Between

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The Louis Armstrong Center Review: Jazz’s King in Queens

In a wide-ranging interview, the drummer and rapper discusses his Warp Records debut, ANIMALS, his adventures in backpack production, the frustrations of explaining jazz-vs.-hip-hop, early gigs at Starbucks, and why the idea of “getting better” is…

TIDAL RISING: Kassa Overall

Photo: Richard Aime/courtesy Lois Aime All good writing about music springs from obsession. A melody reminds us of the past. Or sounds fresh. Or summons both feelings at once. We listen again and again. We need to know more. Grab a Copy To Anyone Who…

‘To Anyone Who Ever Asks:’ Review: The Song of Connie Converse

Mining old songs she learned as a child, the beloved singer and musician finds a new attitude on Pieces of Treasure. There’s a French bulldog that lives in the Bywater section of New Orleans, near the train tracks, named Ragtime Jazzy Joe Jones. Most…

Rickie Lee Jones Interview: ‘It’s my art you like or don’t like, not me’

With words by David Hadju and music by jazz luminaries like Regina Carter and Renee Rosnes, an album tells the story of a New York building whose tenants have included a Lutheran congregation, a Communist newspaper and a bohemian bookstore.

‘The Parsonage: True Tales of Love and Anarchy at 64 East 7th Street’ Review: Music for a Townhouse’s Many Lives

In late February at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, Remy Ohara, a UCLA music student, sounded a shofar, the ram’s horn usually used for High Holiday services at Jewish temples—first in short blasts, then longer sustained tones.…

Can Dave Brubeck’s Cantata Bring Black and Jewish Communities Together?

Among the 36 recordings that trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines made together in 1927 and 1928 are “West End Blues,” perhaps Armstrong’s single greatest documented performance, and “Weather Bird,” which is not the first jazz…

One Plus One: Jazz Duos Are Often More Than the Sum of Their Parts

‘There is no such thing as a beginning and no such thing as an end,” saxophonist Wayne Shorter told me during an interview in 2005. The next night, leading the magnificent quartet that defined his final two decades, melodies that had long since…

The Still-Settling Influence of Jazz Titan Wayne Shorter

As its title suggests, “The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris” (RogueArt), the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s new release, traces a long arc of history and reflects a story of people and ideas coming full circle. By turns, the music sounds stately, funky,…

‘The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris’ by the Art Ensemble of Chicago Review: Staying True by Staying Curious

Upon its November release, “Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule” (Verve/UMe) landed among Billboard’s Top 10 of jazz album sales, where it remains. With this collection of Christmas-themed recordings, Louis Armstrong cracked the Billboard 200 album chart…

‘Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule’ Review: A Very Satchmo Christmas

Catching up on one of the year’s most impactful releases, Moor Mother’s ‘Jazz Codes,’ TIDAL talks to the poet, artist and activist about history, process and community — and why jazz today is “a lot of soft stuff … wearing the costume of liberation.”…

Moor Mother Interview: “I am the instrument”

Once, for an article, I brought the popular New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins to a two-story red-brick home in the Corona section of Queens, New York that, since 2003, has been the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Armstrong, the greatest New Orleans…

Louis Armstrong: ‘I Don’t Have No Fuckin’ Flag Other Than a Black Flag’

Singer Judith Owen honors musical heroines with joy and New Orleans flavor. Seated before the audience at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter of New Orleans on a balmy October night, singer and pianist Judith Owen thought back to her deepest joy…

Judith Owen: Bold Female Declarations, Without Apology

According to a recent study in the journal Science, astronomers have solved Saturn’s enduring mysteries: Its rings are far younger than we thought; its “missing moon” accounts for its “puzzling tilt.” On the new album Living Sky, alto saxophonist…

Living Sky

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Sofia Coppola’s heroines are surrounded by people and lonely as hell, enveloped in a cage visible only to them. The Priscilla of Priscilla is maybe the loneliest of all, from the movie’s first moments. We meet her sitting alone in a diner, sipping a…

Priscilla and Sofia Coppola’s lonely girls

The Hollywood actors’ strike is finally ending. Late in the evening on November 8 — 118 days after walking off set — SAG-AFTRA, the union for actors and performers, and the AMPTP, an association of Hollywood’s largest studios and production…

The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

From its first moments, Pain Hustlers sets out to distinguish itself from the pack of recent series and movies about the opioid crisis with one simple declaration: This is the one that isn’t about the Sacklers. The family most closely associated with…

Hollywood is missing the big picture on the opioid crisis

Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to be solved instead of a story to be savored. But sometimes a close reading is the point. It’s how creators…

The Curse is a fully bizarre and brilliant maze of a show

I’ve been writing about movies for a long time, but even I find myself with a lot of questions that go unanswered. Why do my palms get sweaty when I watch a horror film, even though I know it’s not real? How does “soft power” really work when it…

The surprising science that explains why we love thrillers

To paraphrase Soren Kierkegaard: A movie must be watched forward, but the best movies beg to be understood backward. Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s latest epic, is such a movie. What he’s really doing isn’t evident until the film’s…

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated film, opens in theaters on October 20. The newest epic from the acclaimed filmmaker is adapted from journalist David Grann’s nonfiction book about the Osage murders and the FBI’s…

Watching Killers of the Flower Moon? Here’s what to know

There are many ways to tell a story, especially one that really happened, and this fact has lately tugged at Martin Scorsese’s mind. In movies like The Irishman and The Wolf of Wall Street, he carefully remolds his protagonists’ true stories — or at…

The Hollywood writers strike officially ended on Tuesday, October 10, when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to ratify its contract with the AMPTP (the organization that represents Hollywood’s major studios and production companies). But the…

The actors strike negotiations have broken down

The short film is a neglected form of American entertainment, prevalent — you can find them most anywhere, and pretty much every filmmaker has made a few — and yet barely watched or talked about. That’s strange, when you think about it. We talk about…

Why aren’t we watching more short films?

The identity of the titular, singular “exorcist” of The Exorcist has always been a little murky. In the 1973 original — which overcame studio skepticism to become one of the most successful and significant horror films of all time — there are a few…

The new Exorcist movie proves how much the world has changed since 1973

We aren’t born knowing who the heroes are. We’re taught to see them, instilled with desires to wear their cape, don their uniform, doff their 10-gallon hat, slip into their well-worn shoes. I don’t know who your heroes were, or how that affected your…

Two young missionaries made headlines. Two new docs look at why.

Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strike has ended. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 — after 146 days of labor stoppage, the longest strike in Hollywood history by a long shot — the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which represents…

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strikes may finally be coming to an end. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 – after 146 days of labor stoppage, the longest strike in Hollywood history by a long shot – the WGA, which represents…

The Hollywood writers strike may finally be ending

Trying to figure out what’s going on with the Hollywood double strike — both writers and actors are still on the picket lines — can feel like peering into a particularly muddled crystal ball. On the one hand, the unions have exhibited extraordinary…

What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first,…

22 movies to watch for this fall

Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute entitled I Love You, Daddy. The black-and-white film (an homage presumably to Allen’s Manhattan) starred John…

On Louis C.K., bad men, and burning it all down

For a few years, every summer movie season has felt like the weirdest one. There was the year when blockbusters started to balloon far beyond the margins of “summer.” There was the pandemic summer, when there were no blockbusters at all. The summer…

Lessons from a Barbenheimer summer

There’s a delightful specificity to , the HBO series that’s beginning its third and final season on July 28. “Hey, New York,” Wilson says in voice-over at the beginning of every episode, generally over a shot of something mildly amusing on a New York…

How To With John Wilson

Before the bomb, the destruction of humanity was strictly the purview of the non-human. Whole civilizations told stories of floods or plagues sent by the gods designed to wipe everyone out. People could imagine mass weather events or catastrophes…

The nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop culture

I jumped through the required hoops, took medication the insurance company required instead of what my rheumatologist recommended, and my condition worsened. I was heartbroken and it was preventable. My husband recently got a new job.…

Health insurance made me jump through hoops to get the treatment I need. It cost me my job.

The polar vortex struck this week and blew my whole week sideways. School was canceled for my son but included homework packets to complete during the days off. I'm grateful that my job is one I can do from home. In fact, I work from home most days.…

There's Next-Level Humanity in Remote Work and I Am Here for It

Rebellion is an adolescent's inarticulate way of saying, "I want control." Parents can support that quest for control within clear boundaries of what is safe and what is legal. Rebellion is a good thing, and it's also a key part of developing the…

Parents Should Foster Decision-Making in Teens To Help Them Practice 'Adulting'

Cleaning out a storage bin I found one of my journals from high school. The entry on Sunday, Nov. 3, 1991, grabbed my attention. It was about big dreams I had for myself. I wrote, "How do I know I have what it takes?... the talent... the potential...…

Be Brave And Dream Big This Year

Americans like a good heroic story, but not every individual is up to saving the world, not in the defining moment sort of way that plays out in our favorite books and on the movie screen. Simon Sinek likes to say that we've over-indexed on rugged…

Choose to Be an Everyday Hero in 2024

When I landed my dream job I went back to therapy. Logically, I know that any workplace revolves around relationships just like everything else. But since I worked for so many years as a freelancer, my work life was transactional at best.…

How My Career Helped Me Foster Relationships

Thanks to the Louisville Orchestra, the feel-good Christmas season showed up on time again this year, looking and sounding like, well, Christmas. The specific meeting point was Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts, Grand Tier, row E, seat 36.…

Santa's Symphony: No one does a happy holiday like Louisville Pops' Bob Bernhardt

We lay there staring at the ceiling. Something was off. It was quiet. No squeals. No patter of excited feet running down the hall to our bedroom. Just dark and quiet. Every year on Christmas morning, my husband and I were forbidden to get out of bed…

The Year Christmas Morning Got Quiet

A blood test at my son’s one-year well check showed elevated levels of lead. It was 2016 and potential lead poisoning was not on my radar. The test result sent my family down a rabbit hole of worry while trying to determine the source. The Louisville…

Our home was poisoning our son and we didn't know how. KY needs universal lead screening.

As a single mom, I've spent Christmas alone while my daughter visited with her father's family for the holiday. I've also celebrated Christmas morning as a blended family with my daughter, new husband and stepdaughter. Holidays can be challenging…

Remember Who Christmas Traditions Are Really For: The Kids

In the past month I've written about hospice care for the homeless, read a novel centered around a nursing home during COVID lockdown and read a memoir written by a neurosurgeon as he was dying from cancer. What did all three of these have in common?…

The Gift You Give Yourself Begins With Assessing What You Value

When Family Health Centers referred Monique Smith to Norton Hospital for testing, she did not suspect cancer. She certainly did not expect to learn that she was at the end of her life. Monique was 58 years old and had nowhere to go. I sat next to her…

They're dying and have nowhere to go. Hildegard House helps them die with dignity.

How many of you are gearing up to tolerate the Thanksgiving relative you don't like? You know, the one relative that after a glass of wine will be ready to argue about the war in Gaza, banned books or women's rights? Or maybe it's LGBTQ rights and…

This Thanksgiving, Drop the Labels and Have Meaningful Conversation

Kentucky residents deserve to have their energy needs met at a reasonable cost without fear of brownouts or blackouts like those experienced with Winter Storm Elliott in 2022. The failure of a single natural gas valve on the coldest day of the year…

Kentucky must protect its power grid while transitioning from coal to a renewable energy future

Newly elected Div. 5 Family Court Judge Jessica Stone reminded voters many times during her campaign about her status as a single mom with experience in Family Court. During the Family Court Judicial Candidate Forum last month, Stone said, “I have…

She had a family court case. But does newly elected judge have the necessary experience?

I shared a work achievement with my husband recently and he responded, "You've always been a diamond in the rough." He knows that I am not the product of any sort of traditional trajectory. Instead, I'm the product of informal apprenticeships thanks…

The Hidden Potential of a Diamond in the Rough

Since Matthew Perry died last week, I've seen countless clips in my social media feed of his work as Chandler Bing on "Friends." But snippets of a recent interview have also been circulating. In November 2022, Perry was a guest on "Q with Tom Power."…

The One Where Matthew Perry Determines His Legacy

Jim Crow laws are often thought of (especially by white people) as a thing of the past. Something that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s worked to undo. We think of lunch counter sit-ins, Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington. We do…

America Must Be Intentional About Redressing Segregation. This New Book Helps Americans Make a Plan.

It's time for Louisville residents to better understand how our neighborhoods came to be and the intentional work that needs to happen to rectify policy-driven segregation. In the late 1940s Black community members were relegated to substandard…

Segregation was intentional – and it didn't end when Jim Crow did. Come learn why.

My son asked me on our way to school which emotions were the bad ones. I told him that emotions aren't good or bad, they're just information that helps us figure stuff out. It's our job as parents to help kids decipher how they are feeling and what…

Why Kids Need Help Talking About Their Emotions

Nieman Reports: The Murder of Javier Valdez – A Test For Democracy In Mexico https://bit.ly/2KNQHjD Nieman Reports: Still an Outsider in Mainstream Journalism http://niemanreports.org/articles/still-an-outsider-in-mainstream-journalism/ Huffington…

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos Projects/Investigations

It seems a stretch to connect the death of a regional journalist in Mexico to the (de)evolution of a strong democratic nation. But a careful read of the new book, 'In The Mouth Of The Wolf' reveals a dark how-to guide for corrupt politicians and…

How Democracy Dies

I wanted to speak with Baratunde Thurston because in him I see the true potential of PBS and public media. Baratunde Thurston introduces himself at the top of his PBS show “America Outdoors”, as “a writer, activist and sometimes comedian.” As for me,…

Fresh Air Outdoors

“Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. … “ – Twitter Help Center’s definition of PBS When we…

State of Play

With The 'U.S. and the Holocaust', the filmmaker went beyond mere documentary and delivered storytelling that PBS viewers could relate to – individually. I don’t know of a writer, historian, journalist or filmmaker who doesn’t aim for personal…

Ken Burns’ Personal Best

For as long as there have been politicians, there has been political debate. It hasn’t mattered that technology and social media now make it easier to get in front of a camera or sit at a keyboard and issue screeds based more on ideology than facts.…

No Debate

We're sorry, but there was an error playing this video. Please try again later. A Q&A With the Finding Your Roots Research Team A behind-the-scenes talk with the genealogists and historians at "Finding Your Roots" Know Your Roots Finding Your Roots…

Know Your Roots

Speakers did not trot out the conventional wisdom on what we call the 'Fourth Estate' If you’ve spoken with me or followed my online musings lately, you’ve heard me get a little hyped up about an event that has been long in the making and is a…

Forum on Trust in Media Forces a Tough Look at Today’s Journalism

The Roles of Public Media and Local News in Building it Back On a recent trip to San Francisco, I took a few minutes to chat with Lila LaHood, editor of the nonprofit San Francisco Public Press, a 10-year-old influential news outlet dedicated to…

Trust Issues

PBS Public Editor Not long ago I was enjoying a replay of Ken Burns’ engaging Hemingway documentaries, using new streaming hardware on my television and a WETA-TV Passport app. Soon into the first episode I noticed the screen blink and the voice…

PBS viewers of the human variety complained that streaming audio was out of sync with the picture

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A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon character was based on a Black performer of the Jazz Age. That’s not entirely true. Quicker action to retract the article could have kept…

PBS Public Editor

Outrage over a song written by and for African Americans more than a century ago — and performed on Independence Day on PBS — was misinformed and seemed manipulated; 'Lift Every Voice And Sing' is not a political chant, or a challenge to our official…

Patriot Daze

The subject of an acclaimed documentary is a controversial relationship between some evangelical Christians in the United States and political groups in Israel. But the film’s PBS air date came and went without its screening. What happened?
On…

Kingdom Come, but not now

Video misidentifies ex-employee; a PBS statement says he did not speak for the service
PBS responded this week to a controversial videotape featuring a former PBS employee saying that it was “great” that coronavirus cases were spiking in red states…

PBS Addresses Project Veritas Video

Unequal Air?
Two episodes of a travel show about Afro Latino communities in the Americas mark a personal triumph for a Black journalist who produced them with her own money and sweat. Against a backdrop of inequality in U.S. media, we asked if her…

PBS Public Editor
Q&A’s With Two Travel Show Hosts
Recently, some colleagues asked me what it would take for journalist Kim Haas become public television’s next Rick Steves.
Steves is a public television pillar. And beyond being a knowledgeable…

A Tale of Two Producers

A stream of viewer emails and voicemails question the neutrality of PBS journalists. Is it the reporters, or the viewers, who are speaking through biased filters?
On the Oct. 8 broadcast of the PBS NewsHour, the nation’s infectious disease czar Dr.…

Is It Reporting or Opinion?

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A Twitter image archive is being used to spread fake news with a PBS label. This investigation shows how even honest mistakes feed division among news consumers in America.
A media study recently put Public Broadcasting Service near…

When PBS is Not PBS

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Two documentaries raise the political ire of PBS viewers
One of the toughest questions to answer these days is “What is objectivity?” Few agree on a definition. And two films shown on PBS air turned the debate into a political…