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CBS NewsBarack Obama interview News Hour Jim LehrerExaminer.comAP Barack Obama saved the best for last as he sits down with one of the finest journalists today, Jim Lehrer on PBS News Hour. They plan on talking health ...Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justifiedReutersDisappointment over Copenhagen summit "justified", says ObamaDeutsche WelleObama: climate change disappointment justifiedThe Associated PressBBC News -AFP -Radio...  

Expect a lot of questions about health-care reform. Jim Lehrer is interviewing President Barack Obama on Wednesday at the White House. The interview will air later that day on “PBS NewsHour.” The program can be seen at 7 weeknights on WMFE-Channel 24.  

A BETTER ANSWER.... On PBS yesterday, Jim Lehrer reminded President Obama that the House health care bill has a public option, while the Senate bill doesn't. (I'm fairly certain he knew that.) As the process enters the final phase, Lehrer...  

When The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer re-launches tomorrow as the PBS NewsHour, anchor Jim Lehrer wants viewers to know that the program's core journalistic values will remain the same. "I promise you one thing is never going to change," Lehrer said at the close of Friday's broadcast, "and that's our mission. People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call 'MacNeil-Lehrer Journalism.' Yes, there are." Lehrer...  

click the link for more...Art Beat | Weekly Poem: 'From Here to There' | Online NewsHour | PBS: "There are those great winds on a tearOver the Great Plains,Bending the grasses all the wayDown to the rootsAnd the grasses revealingA gracefulness in the wind's furyYou would not otherwiseHave suspected there."  

Interestingly, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler didn't receive any comments from viewers on the revamped PBS NewsHour, he reports in his latest column (well, one that was "not for posting"). Getler, who calls himself "a devoted watcher" of the program, writes of its latest incarnation: "I, personally, found the first few days of the new format and approach to be a distinct improvement. The program seemed to have more zip and energy, faster paced...  

The NY Times' Elizabeth Jensen and WaPo's Howie Kurtz both write about the major changes for PBS' Jim Lehrer and "The NewsHour," which are some of the most significant since Robert MacNeil retired in 1995. While he will remain executive editor, Lehrer, whose name is no longer in the title, will now be joined by co-anchors Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown. Additionally, the digital and television staffs have merged into a single...  

The PBS NewsHour, which relaunched its revamped show and web presence on Dec. 7, is starting a "major new initiative" on YouTube, the Google Blog reports. Its YouTube channel -- complete with a welcome from host Jim Lehrer -- is running reports from the TV broadcast on the same night the show airs, along with web-original news videos. PBS has had success with YouTube in the past, particularly during last year's election. Its "Video Your Vote...  

The latest news, analysis and reporting from the PBS NewsHour and its Web site, the feed is updated at least once a day and includes interviews, background reports and updates to put today's news in context.  

It seems that no news organization, no matter how long they’ve been using their tried and true formula, is immune from shake-ups these days. So it is over at my old employer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. After three decades in PBS's limelight, Lehrer’s name will be dropped from the program’s title. But the changes go beyond the cosmetic:...  

Jim Lehrer speaks with a human rights activist and a China expert about the state of the struggle for human rights in China. From PBS NewsHour Online: JIM LEHRER: That follows, from President Obama’s talk of human rights in China, a look at what rights the ordinary citizens of China actually do have. It comes from Xiao [...]  

Romenesko Letters | PBS.org On Friday's final PBS newcast carrying the name "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," the anchor listed guidelines for what he called MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. "They're worth sharing with everyone," writes Gene Krzyzynski. A few of them: * 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...  

First On TVNewser: CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is leaving the network to become a news anchor and reporter at PBS's The NewsHour, TVNewser has learned. A formal announcement is expected Monday morning. Sreenivasan joins the program as it gears up for a re-launch of sorts on December 7. Along with a name change — from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to the PBS NewsHour — the show will merge its broadcast and digital platforms. In...  

CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasm is leaving the network to join “PBS NewsHour,” the new incarnation of “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” TVNewser.com reports. He’ll anchor the show’s new online newscasts, and also anchor the broadcast program’s nightly news summary when the program unveils its new look on Dec. 7. He’s been at CBS since 2007. --Elizabeth Jensen