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{{Short description|Public television newscast in the United States}}
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{{Infobox television
| alt_name             = {{plainlist|
*''The Robert MacNeil Report'' {{nowrap|(1975–1976)}}
*''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' {{nowrap|(1976–1983)}}
*''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' {{nowrap|(1983–1995)}}
*''The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer'' {{nowrap|(1995–2009)}}
*''PBS NewsHour Weekend'' {{nowrap|(weekend editions, 2013–2022)}}
*''PBS News Weekend'' {{nowrap|(weekend editions, 2022–present)}}
*''PBS News Hour West'' {{nowrap|(western edition)}}
}}
| image                = PBS News Hour 2024.svg
| image_size           = 160
| caption              = Logo used since June 10, 2024
| genre                = [[News program]]
| creator              = {{plainlist|
*[[Robert MacNeil]]
*[[Jim Lehrer]]
*[[Lester Crystal]]
}}
| director             = {{plainlist|
*Sean Patrick (weekday editions)
*Chip Hirzel (weekend editions)
}}
| presenter            = '''Weekdays:''' {{plainlist|
*[[Amna Nawaz]]
*[[Geoff Bennett (journalist)|Geoff Bennett]]
* [[Stephanie Sy]] (''PBS News Hour West'')
}}
'''Weekends:''' {{plainlist|
*[[John Yang (journalist)|John Yang]]
}}
| theme_music_composer = {{plainlist|
*[[Bernard Hoffer]] {{nowrap|(1975–2006)}}
*David Cebert and [[Bernard Hoffer]] {{nowrap|(2006–2015)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cue11.com/real/spotlight.aspx?id=18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926010538/http://www.cue11.com/real/spotlight.aspx?id=18|archive-date=2008-09-26|publisher=Cue11|title=PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer}}</ref>
*[[Edd Kalehoff]] {{nowrap|(2015–present)}}
}}
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 
| num_episodes         = 
| list_episodes        = 
| executive_producer   = {{plainlist|
*Sara Just (weekday editions)
*Rachel Wellford (weekend editions)
}}
| location             = {{plainlist|
*[[WETA-TV]] studios, [[Arlington County, Virginia]]
*[[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]] at [[Arizona State University]], [[Phoenix, Arizona]] (Western editions)
}}
| cinematography       = 
| camera               = [[Multiple-camera setup|Multi-camera]]
| runtime              = {{plainlist|
*60 minutes (1983–present, weekday editions)
*30 minutes (1975–1983, weekday editions; 2013–present, weekend editions)
}}
| company              = {{plainlist|
*[[WNET]] (weekday editions, {{nowrap|1975–1995}}; weekend editions, {{nowrap|2013–2022}})
*[[WETA-TV]] (weekday editions, {{nowrap|1995–present}}; weekend editions, {{nowrap|2022–present}})
*MacNeil/Lehrer Productions {{nowrap|(1981–2014)}}
*NewsHour Productions {{nowrap|(2014–present)}}
}}
| network              = [[PBS]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1975|10|20}}
| last_aired           = present
| related              = 
}}

'''''PBS News Hour''''', previously stylized as '''''PBS NewsHour''''', is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening [[news broadcasting#television|television news program]] broadcast on over 350 [[PBS]] [[Network affiliate#Member stations|member stations]] since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Since January 2, 2023, the one-hour weekday editions have been anchored by [[Amna Nawaz]] and [[Geoff Bennett (journalist)|Geoff Bennett]]. The 30-minute weekend editions that premiered on September 7, 2013, branded as '''''PBS News Weekend''''', have been anchored by [[John Yang (journalist)|John Yang]] since December 31, 2022.

The broadcasts are produced by PBS member station [[WETA-TV]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and originates from its studio facilities in [[Arlington County, Virginia]]. Since 2019, news updates inserted into the weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in the [[Western United States]], online, and late at night have been anchored by [[Stephanie Sy]], originating from the [[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]] at [[Arizona State University]]. Additional production facilities for the program are based in [[San Francisco]] and [[Denver]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Contact Us |url=http://home.macneil-lehrer.com/contact-us/ |website=macneil-lehrer.com |publisher=MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |access-date=2011-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113195437/http://home.macneil-lehrer.com/contact-us/ |archive-date=2011-11-13}}</ref> The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV and PBS member station [[WNET]] in [[New York City]], along with [[KQED (TV)|KQED]] in [[San Francisco]], [[KETC]] in [[St. Louis]], and [[WTTW]] in [[Chicago]].

The program debuted in 1975 as '''''The Robert MacNeil Report''''' before being renamed '''''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report''''' one year later. It was anchored by [[Robert MacNeil]] from WNET's studios and [[Jim Lehrer]] from WETA's studios. In 1983, the show was rebranded as '''''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour''''', and then '''''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer''''' following MacNeil's departure in 1995. It was then renamed to its current ''PBS NewsHour'' title in 2009, two years before Lehrer left in 2011. Originally, the program only aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in 2013. Production of the weekend broadcasts were solely produced by WNET,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thirteen.org/program-content/interview-with-pbs-newshour-weekends-hari-sreenivasan/|title=Interview with PBS NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan {{!}} THIRTEEN - New York Public Media|work=THIRTEEN - New York Public Media|access-date=2017-08-22|language=en-US}}</ref> before the New York City station transferred all of its ''PBS NewsHour'' involvement to WETA in April 2022.<ref name="vty-pbsnewsweekend"/>

==History==
=== Ownership ===
In September 1981, production of the program was taken over by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a partnership between [[Robert MacNeil]], [[Jim Lehrer]], and [[Gannett]]; the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986. [[John C. Malone]]'s [[Liberty Media]] bought a 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994,<ref><br />{{cite news |last1=Friedland |first1=Lewis A. <!-- |author1-link=Lewis A. Friedland  https://journalism.wisc.edu/news/staff/lewis-a-friedland/  https://sites.tufts.edu/civicgreen/people/lewis-friedland/  --> |title=Reach Out and Stiff Someone : Media merger: The Bell-TCI deal would lock phone and cable users into a monopoly. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-17-op-46829-story.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1993-10-17 |quote=TCI is the most ruthless of the cable monopolies. Now that its president, John Malone, has joined the ranks of the information elite, he is being hailed as a visionary by America's business pages. But John Malone who told McNeil-Lehrer viewers last week that TCI would not seek monopoly control of the information industries had different views not long ago: In 1984, Malone compared the cable industry to “a game of Monopoly” and said that TCI's primary goal was to leverage cash flow and assets to buy more property. He called TCI a “mammoth tax shelter” and said that earning money and paying taxes and dividends was “stupid.”}}<br /><br />{{cite news |last1=Kleid |first1=Beth |title=MOVIES: Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services, and the nation's press. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-05-ca-5209-story.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1994-12-05 |quote=New ‘MacNeil/Lehrer' Owner: Liberty Media Corp., a subsidiary of cable-TV giant Tele-Communications Inc., has agreed to purchase a two-thirds interest in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. The company, which produces “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” for PBS, plans to develop programming for cable, the networks, and public television. The deal will not affect Robert MacNeil's plan to give up his co-anchor seat next October, but he will oversee all of the new non-"NewsHour” programming. Nor will the deal affect “NewsHour,” which “is ours, and ours alone,” PBS President Ervin Duggan said, “and it will continue to be so.”}}<br /><br />{{cite web |title=Liberty Media Corporation; Report to Investors; May, 1999; |url=https://ir.qurateretail.com/static-files/b4c756fc-1a82-443f-98b2-3d12946888b3 |website=ir.qurateretail.com |access-date=2021-05-26 |date=May 1999 |quote=(For purposes of the summary below, “Old Liberty” refers to Liberty Media Corporation (including its predecessors) which changed its name to Liberty Interactive Corporation on September 22, 2011 and subsequently changed its name to Qurate Retail, Inc. on April 9, 2018. “New Liberty” refers to Liberty CapStarz, Inc. which changed its name to Liberty Media Corporation on September 22, 2011.)}}<br /><br />{{cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Daniel |author1-link=Daniel Gross (journalist) |title=John Malone's tricky maneuvers. |url=https://slate.com/business/2004/01/john-malone-s-tricky-maneuvers.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=2004-01-26 |language=en |quote=Liberty Media today is a strange hybrid—part venture capital fund, part mutual fund, part asset shuffler extraordinaire, and part long-term operator of businesses. Its astonishing array of holdings (click here and download the PDF file to see the 9-page chart) includes bits and pieces of television channels like Game Show Network, Animal Planet, and significant pieces of massive publicly held companies like Interactive Corp. and Sprint. (He even owns two-thirds of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.)}}<br /><br />{{cite news |last1=Street |first1=Paul |title=The 'P' in PBS Should Stand for 'Plutocratic' or 'Pentagon' |url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-p-in-pbs-should-stand-for-plutocratic-or-pentagon/ |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=[[Truthdig]] |date=2016-10-28 |language=en |quote=Consistent with those commercials and despite its name, the news and commentary one finds on PBS are in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media. As progressive journalist David Sirota suggested two years ago, reflecting on recent investigations showing that super-moneyed, right-wing capitalists such as the Koch brothers and Texas billionaire John Arnold had (along with more liberal software mogul Bill Gates) influenced PBS content through multimillion-dollar donations, the “P” in PBS often seems to more properly stand for “Plutocratic,” not “Public.”  None of this should be surprising to anyone familiar with the distinctively big-business-dominated history of U.S. broadcast media. Because the United States fails to provide anything like adequate funding for public broadcasting, both PBS and National Public Radio (a regular vehicle for neoliberal business ideology) depend upon foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals to pay for much of their programming. Beneath their standard claims to have no interest in shaping public media content, these private funders have bottom-line agendas, meaning that their contributions come with strings attached—strings that undermine the integrity of the “independent” journalism they bankroll. (For what it's worth, between 1994 and 2014, the “NewsHour” was primarily owned by the for-profit firm Liberty Media. Liberty Media was run by the conservative and politically active billionaire John Malone, who had a majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, the show's producer.)}}<br /><br />{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Janine |title=What's 'Public' About Public TV's News Flagship? |url=https://fair.org/extra/whats-public-about-public-tvs-news-flagship/ |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=[[Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting|FAIR]] |date=2010-11-01 |quote=A few observers (Variety, 12/5/94) noted that “for Malone, M/L Prods. is a prestige buy that is likely to earn him some goodwill in Washington; TCI has been a frequent target of lawmakers.” As Verne Gay (Newsday, 12/5/94) put it, “The new Republican-controlled Congress may be less willing to bash Malone, even less so now that he owns NewsHour. Washington types, you see, adore NewsHour.”}}</ref><ref name="nytimes-John C. Malone-Boss at Liberty Media">{{cite news |last1=Fabrikant |first1=Geraldine |title=A Supporting Actor Takes Center Stage;But Few People Really Doubt Who Is Boss at Liberty Media |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/15/business/supporting-actor-takes-center-stage-but-few-people-really-doubt-who-boss-liberty.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=The New York Times |date=1996-05-15 |quote=Peter Barton has always belonged to what he calls the "squadron of the second bananas." Few outside the cable industry know who he is -- and those inside it know him best as the right-hand man to his mentor, John C. Malone, the most powerful figure in the business.}}</ref> but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control.<ref name="c-newshourownership">{{cite news|author=Sefton|first=Dru|url=http://www.current.org/2014/06/weta-to-create-subsidiary-for-transfer-of-pbs-newshour-ownership/|title=WETA to create subsidiary for transfer of PBS NewsHour ownership|date=2014-06-18|access-date=2014-06-18|website=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]]|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224027/https://current.org/2014/06/weta-to-create-subsidiary-for-transfer-of-pbs-newshour-ownership/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, ''MacNeil/Lehrer Productions'', owned by MacNeil, Lehrer, and [[Liberty Media]] announced its donation, as ''NewsHour Productions LLC'', to [[WETA-TV]] as a nonprofit subsidiary.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Elizabeth |title=WETA to Take Ownership of 'PBS NewsHour' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/business/media/weta-to-take-ownership-of-pbs-newshour.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=The New York Times |date=2014-06-18 |quote=MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, the production company owned by the former “NewsHour” anchors, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and Liberty Media, announced in October that it wanted to donate the program to WETA if a deal could be reached.  The company is also giving WETA its archives and some smaller production projects. Its employees will become employees of NewsHour Productions LLC, a nonprofit WETA subsidiary set up to operate the program. No money will change hands}}</ref><ref name="PandoDaily-Sirota-billionaire">{{cite news |last1=Sirota |first1=David |author1-link=David Sirota |title=After pledging transparency, PBS hides details of new deal with billionaire owner of NewsHour |url=https://pando.com/2014/03/07/after-pledging-transparency-pbs-hides-details-of-new-deal-with-billionaire-owner-of-newshour/ |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=[[PandoDaily]] |date=2014-03-07 |language=en-gb |quote=However, since 1994, the NewsHour has been produced and primarily owned by the for-profit colossus, Liberty Media. Liberty, which is run by conservative billionaire John Malone, owns the majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions - the entity that produces the journalistic content of the show. While other standalone public television projects are often produced by small independent production companies, the NewsHour stands out for being owned by a major for-profit media conglomerate headed by a politically active billionaire.}}</ref><!-- https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/16/opinion/must-npr-sell-itself.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/television/12pbs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/media/30pbs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/business/media/venerable-format-of-newshour-struggles-with-new-era-of-media.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/business/media/pbs-newshour-looks-to-change-ownership.html -->

===''The Robert MacNeil Report'' and ''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' (1975–1983)===
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In 1973, [[Robert MacNeil]] (a former [[NBC News]] correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's ''[[Washington Week|Washington Week in Review]]'') and [[Jim Lehrer]] teamed up to cover the [[United States Senate]]'s [[United States Senate Watergate Committee|Watergate hearings]] for PBS. They earned an [[Emmy Award]] for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/bio_lehrer.html|website=PBS NewsHour|access-date=2017-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122190852/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/bio_lehrer.html|archive-date=2014-01-22|date=2012-09-13}}</ref>

This recognition led to the creation of ''The Robert MacNeil Report'', a half-hour local news program on WNET, which debuted on October 20, 1975; each episode of the program covered a single issue in depth. On December 1, 1975, the program began to air on PBS stations nationwide. It was renamed ''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' on September 6, 1976.<ref>{{Citation|title=The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; Unemployment; Unemployment & Election|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-901zc7sd7n|language=en|access-date=2018-05-16}}</ref> Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil based in New York City and Lehrer at WETA's studios in Arlington, Virginia. [[Charlayne Hunter-Gault]] joined the series as a correspondent in 1977, serving as a substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off. She became the series' national correspondent in 1983.

===''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' and ''The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer'' (1983–2009)===
Having decided to start competing with the nightly news programs on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]] instead of complementing them, the program expanded to one hour on September 5, 1983,<ref name="nytimes-1984-NewsHour">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Sally Bedell |author1-link=Sally Bedell Smith |title='MACNEIL/LEHRER' OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/21/arts/macneil-lehrer-outlook-brightens.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=The New York Times |date=1984-03-21 |quote=''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,'' public television's nightly newscast, got two important boosts in the last week: Jim Lehrer, the Washington anchor, returned to the program Monday night after a three- month absence for heart surgery, and 102 public television stations voted to help underwrite the program for the 1984-85 season. The two developments were especially welcome, public-television officials say, because, seven months after its transformation from a half-hour to an hour, the newscast is still struggling to gain acceptance in its expanded form. Contrary to expectations, the nationwide audience of four million viewers has not grown this year. And a number of station officials contend that the program would be stronger if it returned to a half-hour.}}</ref> incorporating other changes, such as the introduction of "documentary reportage from the field";<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/09/no-blaring.html|title=No Blaring: MacNeil on Emmy, Keeping a Reasonable Tone in Broadcast News|last=MacNeil|first=Robert|date=2010-09-27|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218045126/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/09/no-blaring.html|archive-date=2012-02-18|access-date=2011-05-25}}</ref> it became known at that time as ''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour''. [[Lester Crystal]] was its founding executive producer. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions twice planned to launch late-night newscasts in 1995 and 1999; in both instances, the proposed expansions—which, respectively, were to have involved production and newsgathering partnerships with [[Dow Jones & Company|Wall Street Journal Television]] and ''[[The New York Times]]''—were canceled mid-development.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Elizabeth |title=PBS May Leap Into Late-News Lineup |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-16-ca-17660-story.html |access-date=2021-05-26 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1999-03-16 |quote=MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, producer of the venerable “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” is trying again to launch a late-night newscast on Public Broadcasting Service stations nationwide, this time in conjunction with the New York Times...MacNeil/Lehrer first tried to launch a late-night newscast, dubbed “The National News,” in 1995. Plans for the program, which was to be produced with Dow Jones & Co.'s Wall Street Journal Television unit, were eventually dropped.}}</ref>

MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor.<ref name="la-times-1995">{{cite news|author=Hall|first=Jane|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-11-ca-49055-story.html|title=MacNeil Leaves PBS' 'NewsHour' to Write|date=1994-10-21|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224036/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-11-ca-49055-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Accordingly, the program was renamed ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' on October 23.<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/history.html|title=NewsHour History|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=MacNeil/Lehrer Productions|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202005417/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/history.html|archive-date=2013-02-02|access-date=2011-11-15}}</ref> (Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.) On January 16, 1996, ''The NewsHour'' announced the creation of its official website at PBS Online.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-hq3rv0dp48|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=January 16, 1996 |via=americanarchive.org}}</ref> ''The NewsHour'' won a [[Peabody Award]] in 2003 for the feature report ''Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers''.<ref>{{cite web|title=63rd Annual Peabody Awards|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/jobless-recovery-non-working-numbers|publisher=[[Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication]]|date=May 2004|access-date=2014-09-29|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224039/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/jobless-recovery-non-working-numbers|url-status=live}}</ref> On May 17, 1999, ''The NewsHour'' adopted a new graphics package with refreshed music from 1983, plus the new studio with a blue globe in the middle. On October 4, 1999, [[Gwen Ifill]] and [[Ray Suarez]] joined ''The NewsHour'' team as new correspondents. Ifill was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television.<ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=1999-10-04|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-zg6g15v76h|language=en|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> Effective January 17, 2000, ''The NewsHour'' added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen for a three-year agreement through April 22, 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/aol-and-pbs-enter-strategic-online-on-air-alliance-january-8-2000/|title=AOL and PBS Enter Strategic Online, On-Air Alliance {{!}} PBS About|website=AOL and PBS Enter Strategic Online, On-Air Alliance {{!}} PBS About|access-date=2019-12-05|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224028/https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/aol-and-pbs-enter-strategic-online-on-air-alliance-january-8-2000/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=2000-01-17|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-rr1pg1jd9q|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=2003-04-22|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-9g5gb1z47p|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref> For only the website, the program took effect on April 23, 2003.<ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=2003-04-23|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-2b8v980616|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref> On March 3, 2003, the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning.<ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=2003-03-03|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-zp3vt1hk3p|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref> On November 17, 2003, ''The NewsHour'' added music in the beginning with dates.<ref>{{Citation|title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|date=2003-11-17|url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-ff3kw5865n|language=en|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref>

On May 17, 2006, the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years, adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of its theme music (originally composed by [[Bernard Hoffer]]).<ref>Michael P. Hill (July 21, 2015). "'PBS NewsHour' retunes theme music". NewscastStudio. HD Media Ventures. Retrieved July 26, 2015.</ref><ref>Corinne Segal (July 20, 2015). "The NewsHour has a new theme song, and we assume you'll want to talk about it". PBS NewsHour. PBS. Retrieved July 26, 2015.</ref> On December 17, 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media/july-dec07/hdexplained_12-14.html|title=NewsHour High-Definition Broadcast FAQ|author=Tom LeGro|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218055943/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media/july-dec07/hdexplained_12-14.html|archive-date=2012-02-18|access-date=2011-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec07/newshour_hidef.html|title=Online NewsHour: Report {{!}} NewsHour Switches to HD {{!}} December 14, 2007 {{!}} PBS|date=2012-02-18|website=PBS Newshour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218055557/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec07/newshour_hidef.html|archive-date=2012-02-18|access-date=2019-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/media/july-dec07/HD_forum_12-14.html|title=Online NewsHour: Forum {{!}} The NewsHour Goes High Definition {{!}} December 14, 2007 {{!}} PBS|date=2012-02-18|website=PBS Newshour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218055606/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/media/july-dec07/HD_forum_12-14.html|archive-date=2012-02-18|access-date=2019-11-27}}</ref> the ''NewsHour'' became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in [[High-definition television|high definition]] (after ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' on March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in a [[letterboxed]] format for viewers with [[standard-definition television]] sets watching via either [[cable television|cable]] or [[satellite television]]. The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD.

===''PBS NewsHour''===
====Departure of Jim Lehrer and switch to co-anchors (2009–2013)====
[[File:082712 InsideNewsHour 004 (7907978108).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 27, 2012]]
On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year<ref>{{Cite press release|url=http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/the-newshour-with-jim-lehrer-and-pbs-announce-major-changes-may-12-2009/|title="THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER" AND PBS ANNOUNCE MAJOR CHANGES|publisher=PBS|access-date=2020-05-19|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224016/https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/the-newshour-with-jim-lehrer-and-pbs-announce-major-changes-may-12-2009/|url-status=live}}</ref> under a revised title, the ''PBS NewsHour''.<ref name="Jensen">{{cite news|title='NewsHour' on PBS to Get Makeover|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/television/12pbs.html|author=Elizabeth Jensen|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2009-05-11|access-date=2009-06-01|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224031/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/television/12pbs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to increased integration between the ''NewsHour'' website and nightly broadcast, the updated production returned to a two-anchor format.<ref name=wapokurtz>{{cite news|title=PBS, changing 'NewsHour' to preserve it|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902725.html|author=Howard Kurtz|author-link=Howard Kurtz|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|page=C1|date=2009-11-30|access-date=2009-12-01|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224023/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902725.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Lehrer described the overhaul as the first phase in his move toward retirement.

On September 27, 2010, ''PBS NewsHour'' was presented with the Chairman's Award at the [[31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards]], with MacNeil, Lehrer, Crystal, and former executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show's behalf.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_31st_winners.html|title=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners...|date=2010-09-27|publisher=[[National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001132753/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_31st_winners.html|archive-date=2010-10-01|access-date=2011-05-25}}</ref>

Lehrer formally ended his tenure as a regular anchor of the program on June 6, 2011. He continued to occasionally anchor on Fridays, when he usually led the political analysis segment with syndicated columnist [[Mark Shields]] and ''[[The New York Times]]'' columnist [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]], until December 30, 2011.<ref name="lehrerretire">{{cite news|url=http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2011/05/13/us-jim-lehrer-to-retire-as-pbs-newshour-anchor/|title=Jim Lehrer to retire as PBS NewsHour anchor|date=2011-05-13|access-date=2010-05-13|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930112927/http://www.mediaspy.org/2011/05/13/us-jim-lehrer-to-retire-as-pbs-newshour-anchor/|archive-date=2012-09-30|publisher=Media Spy|website=The Spy Report}}</ref> ''PBS NewsHour'' continues with various anchors until September 6, 2013.

====Transfer of production, expansion to weekends and the west (2013–present)====
[[File:Judy Woodruff interviews Chuck Hagel for PBS NewsHour.jpg|thumb|left|[[Judy Woodruff]] interviewing US Secretary of Defense [[Chuck Hagel]] on September 18, 2013]]
On August 6, 2013, [[Gwen Ifill]] and [[Judy Woodruff]] were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of the ''NewsHour''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byers |first=Dylan |title=Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff named co-anchors and managing editors of PBS NewsHour |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/gwen-ifill-judy-woodruff-named-co-anchors-and-managing-editors-of-pbs-newshour-170031 |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=POLITICO |date=August 6, 2013 |language=en}}</ref> They shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions, with Woodruff anchoring solo on Fridays due to Ifill's duties as host of the political discussion program ''[[Washington Week]],'' which was also produced Friday evenings.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff to co-anchor 'NewsHour'|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gwen-ifill-judy-woodruff-co-anchor-newshour|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=2013-08-06|access-date=2013-08-06|archive-date=2013-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810151336/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gwen-ifill-judy-woodruff-co-anchor-newshour|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Anchor|PBS NewsHour Weekend}}For much of its history, the ''PBS NewsHour'' aired only Monday through Friday, but in March 2013, plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development.<ref name=nyt-weekendnewshourplans>{{cite news |title=PBS Near a Decision on Adding a Weekend Edition of 'NewsHour' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/business/media/pbs-ponders-weekend-newshour.html |author=Elizabeth Jensen |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2013-03-04 |access-date=2013-06-18 |archive-date=2020-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224010/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/business/media/pbs-ponders-weekend-newshour.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On June 17, 2013, ''PBS NewsHour'' announced that the weekend editions of the program would premiere on September 7, 2013, with [[Hari Sreenivasan]] serving as anchor. Although they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were branded with a modified program name, ''PBS NewsHour Weekend''. This program is based on the duration of WNET's involvement with the program. From the weekend broadcasts' debut until the March 27, 2022 edition, the Saturday and Sunday editions originated from the Tisch/WNET Studios at [[Lincoln Center]] in [[Manhattan]], as opposed to the program's main production facilities at the Arlington, Virginia, studios of WETA-TV.<ref name="lat-newshourweekend">{{cite news|author=Day|first=Kevin|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-pbs-newshour-weekends-20130617,0,7988324.story|title=PBS' 'NewsHour' to expand to weekends in the fall|date=2013-06-17|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=2013-06-18|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224040/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-pbs-newshour-weekends-20130617-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="p-newshourweekend">{{cite news|author=Weigner|first=Mackenzie|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/pbs-newshour-weekend-to-premiere-this-fall-166426.html|title=PBS NewsHour Weekend to premiere this fall|date=2013-06-17|access-date=2013-06-18|publisher=[[Capitol News Company]]|website=[[Politico]]|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224036/https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/pbs-newshour-weekend-to-premiere-this-fall-166426|url-status=live}}</ref>

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the show's staffers on October 8, 2013, that it had offered to transfer ownership in the ''PBS NewsHour'' to WETA. In the letter, Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with the program's production since their departures from anchoring, as well as "the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities."<ref name="c-mlptoweta?">{{cite news|author=Sefton|first=Dru|url=http://www.current.org/2013/10/macneil-lehrer-propose-to-transfer-ownership-of-pbs-newshour-to-weta/|title=MacNeil, Lehrer propose to transfer ownership of PBS NewsHour to WETA|date=2013-10-09|newspaper=Current|access-date=2013-10-10|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224044/https://current.org/2013/10/macneil-lehrer-propose-to-transfer-ownership-of-pbs-newshour-to-weta/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nyt-mlptoweta?">{{cite news|author=Jensen|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/business/media/pbs-newshour-looks-to-change-ownership.html?_r=0|title='NewsHour' Ex-Anchors to Cede Ownership|date=2013-10-08|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2013-10-10|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224010/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/business/media/pbs-newshour-looks-to-change-ownership.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> WETA's board of trustees approved the transfer on June 17, 2014, and it took effect on July 1. At that time, NewsHour Productions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of WETA, took over production of the program. WETA also acquired MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' archives, documentaries, and projects, though not the company's name. ''PBS NewsHour Weekend'' was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET until 2022 when the program moved back to Washington.<ref name=c-newshourownership/>

On July 20, 2015, the ''PBS NewsHour'' introduced an overhauled visual appearance for its weekday broadcasts, debuting a new minimalist set designed by Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS's longtime "Everyman" logo. The program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by [[Edd Kalehoff]], which incorporates a reorchestration of the nine-note "Question and Answer" musical signature that has been featured in the program's theme since its premiere in 1975 and a musical signature originally incorporated into the Kalehoff-composed theme for the ''[[Nightly Business Report]]'' used from 2002 to 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/newshour-debuts-new-theme-music/|title=The NewsHour has a new theme song, and we assume you'll want to talk about it|author=Segal|first=Connie|date=2015-07-20|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=PBS|access-date=2015-07-26|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224019/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/newshour-debuts-new-theme-music|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/21/pbs-newshour-gets-airy-new-look/|title='PBS NewsHour' gets airy new look|author=Hill|first=Michael P.|date=2015-07-21|website=NewscastStudio|publisher=HD Media Ventures|access-date=2015-07-26|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224053/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/21/pbs-newshour-gets-airy-new-look/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/21/pbs-newshour-retunes-theme-music/|title='PBS NewsHour' retunes theme music|author=Hill|first=Michael P.|date=2015-07-21|website=NewscastStudio|publisher=HD Media Ventures|access-date=2015-07-26|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224013/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/21/pbs-newshour-retunes-theme-music/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/17/pbs-newshour-to-debut-new-look/|title='PBS NewsHour' to debut new look|date=2015-07-17|website=NewscastStudio|publisher=HD Media Ventures|access-date=2015-07-26|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224030/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/07/17/pbs-newshour-to-debut-new-look/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''PBS NewsHour Weekend'' retained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert and Bernard Hoffer until August 29, 2015, when it transitioned to the same theme music and a reworked version of the graphics package used for the weekday broadcasts.

Ifill took brief breaks from her ''NewsHour'' anchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 (and was also absent from the program's [[2016 United States presidential election|presidential election]] coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage [[breast cancer|breast]] and [[endometrial cancer]]. After her death was announced on November 14, 2016, that evening's edition of the ''PBS NewsHour'' was dedicated to Ifill and her influence on journalism, featuring tributes from Woodruff, Sreenivasan, former colleagues and program contributors (news content was relegated to the standard news summary, which aired during the second half-hour).<ref>{{cite web |title= Remembering Gwen |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/remembering-gwen/ |website= PBS NewsHour |publisher= NewsHour Productions |date= 2016-11-14 |access-date= 2017-06-08 |archive-date= 2020-11-15 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224017/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/remembering-gwen |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gwen-ifill-61-pbs-journalist-covered-history-made-history/|title=Gwen Ifill, 61, PBS journalist who covered history and made history|date=2016-11-14|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=NewsHour Productions|access-date=2016-11-19|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224014/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gwen-ifill-61-pbs-journalist-covered-history-made-history|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Gwen Ifill on being a little girl transfixed by news |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gwen-ifill-little-girl-transfixed-news/ |website= PBS NewsHour |publisher= NewsHour Productions |date= 2016-11-14 |access-date= 2017-06-08 |archive-date= 2020-11-15 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224041/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gwen-ifill-little-girl-transfixed-news |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= The Cosmic Power of Gwen Ifill |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/column-cosmic-power-gwen-ifill/ |website= PBS NewsHour |publisher= NewsHour Productions |date= 2016-11-18 |access-date= 2016-11-19 |archive-date= 2020-11-15 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224035/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/column-cosmic-power-gwen-ifill |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/gwen-ifill-pbs-dies-1201917581/|title=Gwen Ifill, Longtime PBS Journalist, Dies at 61|author=Holloway|first=Daniel|date=2016-11-14|access-date=2017-06-08|periodical=Variety|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224014/https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/gwen-ifill-pbs-dies-1201917581/|url-status=live}}</ref> Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff went on to become sole anchor.

[[File:PBS News Hour Logo 2017.svg|thumb|Former logo used from 2017 to 2024]]
In 2018, ''The Plastic Problem'' aired, which then went on to win a [[Peabody Award]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/2018-peabody-award-winners-78th-annual-peabody-30 |title=The Best Stories of 2018 |date=2019-06-24 |access-date=2020-02-28 |archive-date=2020-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224032/http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/2018-peabody-award-winners-78th-annual-peabody-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> presented at the 2019 awards ceremony.

On October 14, 2019, ''PBS NewsHour'' launched "''PBS NewsHour'' West", a Western United States bureau at [[Arizona State University]]'s [[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]. Anchored by Stephanie Sy, the bureau produces its own news summary with up-to-date information on events that develop after the original broadcast. A version of the program with this summary is shown to viewers in the Western United States and to online and East Coast viewers watching re-broadcasts.<ref>{{cite web|title=PBS launches "NewsHour West," based in Phoenix|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pbs-launches-newshour-west-based-in-phoenix|website=PBS Newshour|publisher=NewsHour Productions|date=2019-10-14|access-date=2019-10-15|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224035/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pbs-launches-newshour-west-based-in-phoenix|url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 2, 2022, WETA assumed production responsibilities for the ''NewsHour''{{‘}}s Saturday and Sunday editions, which concurrently began originating from the studio at the station's Washington facility used for the weekday broadcasts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wyllie |first=Julian |date=2021-11-18 |title=WETA to take control of 'NewsHour Weekend' with Geoff Bennett as host |url=https://current.org/2021/11/weta-to-take-control-of-newshour-weekend-with-geoff-bennett-as-host/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Current |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mastrangelo |first=Dominick |date=2021-11-18 |title=Geoff Bennett lands at PBS following exit from NBC |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/582136-geoff-bennett-lands-at-pbs-following-exit-from-nbc/ |access-date=November 11, 2024 |website=The Hill}}</ref> The broadcasts were retitled ''PBS News Weekend'', omitting ''"NewsHour''" in view of their shorter duration. NewsHour Productions transferred production of the weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, allowing the weekday and weekend ''NewsHour'' broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with ''Washington Week'' (which is also produced by WETA-TV). Coinciding with the move, the weekend editions began carrying feature segments covering culture and the arts. Sreenivasan (who remains a New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for the PBS late-night news program ''[[Amanpour & Company]]'') was replaced as weekend anchor by former [[NBC News]] and [[MSNBC]] correspondent Geoff Bennett.<ref name="vty-pbsnewsweekend">{{cite web|title=Geoff Bennett Gets Ready to Launch a Retooled 'PBS News Weekend'|url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/geoff-bennett-pbs-news-weekend-1235219819/|author=Brian Steinberg|periodical=Variety|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=2022-03-31}}</ref> Then on December 8, 2022, ''PBS NewsHour'' announced that John Yang will become an anchor in the weekend editions on December 31, 2022 (New Year's Eve).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wyllie |first=Julian |date=2022-12-08 |title=John Yang to anchor 'PBS News Weekend' |url=https://current.org/2022/12/john-yang-to-anchor-pbs-news-weekend/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Current |language=en-US}}</ref>

On May 13, 2022, Woodruff announced to ''NewsHour'' staffers that she would step down as anchor at the end of the year, though she intends to continue reporting longer pieces for the program while doing projects and specials for WETA through the [[2024 United States presidential election]] at the earliest. [[Amna Nawaz]] and [[Geoff Bennett (journalist)|Geoff Bennett]] were named Woodruff's successors.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ted |title=Judy Woodruff Announces Plans To Step Down As Anchor Of 'PBS NewsHour,' Will Transition To Reporting And Special Projects |url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/judy-woodruff-pbs-newshour-amna-nawaz-geoff-bennett-1235022988/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |work=Deadline |date=2022-05-13}}</ref> Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30, 2022.<ref name="woodruff goodbye">{{cite web |title=Judy Woodruff's goodbye message to viewers as she departs NewsHour anchor desk |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/judy-woodruffs-goodbye-message-to-viewers-as-she-departs-newshour-anchor-desk |date=December 30, 2022 |publisher=PBS |access-date=December 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231090633/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/judy-woodruffs-goodbye-message-to-viewers-as-she-departs-newshour-anchor-desk |archive-date=December 31, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co-anchors on January 2, 2023.

On December 15, 2023, PBS premiered ''PBS News Weekly'', a digital-only half-hour weekly summary series of ''News Hour'' stories from the week, initially hosted by [[Nick Schifrin]] and broadcast on Fridays.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBS News Weekly |url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgawtcOBBjr9duO0csb3CNCYBP7qVAvu- |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=YouTube |language=en}}</ref>

On June 10, 2024, ''PBS News Hour'' introduced a new logo and the new studio (still at WETA), now featuring the current PBS logo, and the logo and program's text and graphics rendered in the system's proprietary PBS Sans [[typeface]] family introduced in 2019.<ref name="new set 2024">{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Michael P. |date=2024-06-10 |title='PBS News Hour' scales up aesthetic for sprawling new studio, facility |url=https://www.newscaststudio.com/2024/06/10/pbs-newshour-new-set/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=NewscastStudio |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617144226/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2024/06/10/pbs-news-rebranding/ |archive-date=June 17, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|PBS had revised its brand identity in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90425497/pbs-unveils-a-new-brand-for-a-new-media-landscape |title=PBS's new brand is anything but radical—and that's the whole point |last=Smith |first=Lilly |date=2019-11-04 |website=Fast Company |language=en-US |access-date=2019-12-02 |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213085631/https://www.fastcompany.com/90425497/pbs-unveils-a-new-brand-for-a-new-media-landscape |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="current-newlogo">{{Cite web |url=https://current.org/2019/11/pbs-begins-rollout-of-electric-blue-brand-refresh/ |title=PBS begins rollout of electric-blue brand refresh |last=Goldsmith |first=Jill |website=Current |date=November 4, 2019 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-12-03 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112173243/https://current.org/2019/11/pbs-begins-rollout-of-electric-blue-brand-refresh/ |url-status=live}}</ref>}} At the same time, the program's longstanding use of [[camel case]] in its name was discontinued, with "NewsHour" becoming two words by one space, "News Hour", in conjunction with the network's rebranding of the news operation as PBS News.<ref name="new set 2024"/>

==Production and ratings==
[[Image:NewsHourControlRoom2005.jpg|thumb|Behind the scenes at ''The NewsHour'', during a Gen. [[Peter Pace]] interview on November 7, 2005|alt=]]
The program is notable for being shown on [[public broadcasting|public television]]. There are no interruptions for advertisements (though like most public television programs, there are "corporate image" advertisements at the beginning and end of each broadcast, as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate to their local PBS member station or member network during locally produced [[pledge drive]]s, which are replaced by encore presentations of a selected story segment from the past year for stations that are not holding a drive during that time).

The program has a more deliberate pace than the news broadcasts of the commercial networks it competes against, allowing for deeper detail in its story packages and feature segments. At the start of the program, the lead story is covered in depth, followed by a news summary that lasts roughly between six and eight minutes, briefly explaining many of the top national and international news headlines; international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by [[ITN]] correspondents. This is usually followed by three or four longer news segments, typically running six to twelve minutes, which explore a few of the events mentioned in the headline segment in depth and include discussions with experts, newsmakers, and/or commentators. The program formerly included a reflective essay on a regular basis, but these have been curtailed in recent years; since Woodruff and Ifill became anchors, these essays have mainly aired as part of the end-of-show segment "Brief, but Spectacular".

On Fridays, the program features political analysis and discussion between two regular contributors, one from each of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] parties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have been ''[[Washington Post]]'' columnist [[Jonathan Capehart]] and ''[[The New York Times]]'' columnist [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]]. Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included [[David Gergen]], [[Thomas Oliphant (journalist)|Thomas Oliphant]], [[Rich Lowry]], [[William Kristol]], [[Ramesh Ponnuru]], [[Ruth Marcus (journalist)|Ruth Marcus]], [[Michael Gerson]], [[David Corn]] and [[E. J. Dionne]]. On Mondays, a similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors [[Amy Walter]], national editor of ''[[The Cook Political Report]]'', and [[Tamara Keith]], Washington, D.C. correspondent for [[NPR]].

The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff and [[Jeffrey Brown (journalist)|Jeffrey Brown]] (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming, [[Richard Rodriguez]], [[Clarence Page]] and [[Roger Rosenblatt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/essays/|title=Essays archive|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130180025/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/essays/|archive-date=2014-01-30|access-date=2010-12-17}}</ref> Correspondents have been Tom Bearden, [[Betty Ann Bowser]], [[Susan Dentzer]], [[Elizabeth Farnsworth]], [[Kwame Holman]], Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, the economics correspondent [[Paul Solman]] (''Making Sen$e''), [[Malcolm Brabant]] and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/correspondents.html|title=Correspondents|website=PBS NewsHour|publisher=PBS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130180015/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/correspondents.html|archive-date=2014-01-30|access-date=2010-12-17}}</ref>

Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U.S. political debates. By November 2008, Lehrer had moderated more than ten debates between major U.S. presidential candidates.<ref name="msnbc04deb">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6133830|title=Jim Lehrer: The Dean of Moderators|agency=Associated Press|date=2004-09-29|website=NBC News|publisher=[[Comcast]]|access-date=2011-05-24|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224036/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6133830|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates [[Joe Biden]] and [[Sarah Palin]]; in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidates [[Dick Cheney]] and [[John Edwards]].<ref name="timedeb">{{cite news|author=Suddath|first=Claire|url=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1846354,00.html|title=Debate Moderator Gwen Ifill|date=2008-10-02|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=2011-05-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115132155/http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1846354,00.html|archive-date=2016-11-15}}</ref>

According to [[Nielsen ratings]] at the program's [[website]], 2.7 million people watch the program each night, and 8 million watch in the course of a week.

=== Honor Roll segment ===
On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–led [[invasion of Iraq]] in 2003, the ''PBS News Hour'' began what it called its "Honor Roll", a short segment displaying in silence the picture, name, rank, and hometown of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. On January 4, 2006, military personnel killed in Afghanistan were added to the segment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Here, In Silence, Are Eight More.|url=https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/01/here_in_silence_are_eight_more.html|last=Getler|first=Michael|date=2006-01-06|website=PBS {{!}} Ombudsman|access-date=2020-06-01|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224038/https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/01/here_in_silence_are_eight_more.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''PBS NewsHour'' aired the final honor roll segment on August 30, 2021, after the end of [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref>{{Cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz68rRK1tyw&t=0s |title=Remembering the U.S. service members who lost their lives during the Afghanistan exit |date=2021-08-30 |last=PBS NewsHour |type=Video |publisher=YouTube}}</ref>

==Availability==
[[File:PBS News Hour West logo 2024.svg|thumb|Logo of PBS News Hour West, Western edition of PBS News Hour]]
The ''PBS News Hour'' is broadcast on more than 350 PBS member stations and member networks, making it available to 99% of the viewing public, and audio from the program is broadcast by some [[NPR]] radio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via [[American Public Television]]'s [[World (TV channel)|World]] [[digital subchannel]] service. Broadcasts of the ''PBS News Hour'' are also made available worldwide via [[satellite]]s operated by various agencies such as the [[Voice of America]].

A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear the ''PBS News Hour'' on their schedules due to existing carriage on a "primary" PBS member station, a pool mainly confined to "secondary" stations (most of which participate in the service's Program Differentiation Plan) that share certain [[media market]]s with a "primary" member outlet. These include the [[NJ PBS]] network in [[New Jersey]] (as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS and [[WLIW (TV)|WLIW]], carries the program in the New York City area, the latter airing the program live, while [[WHYY-TV]] does so in the [[Philadelphia]] market); [[KVCR-DT]] in [[San Bernardino, California]]; [[KCET]] in [[Los Angeles]] ([[KOCE-TV]] in [[Huntington Beach, California|Huntington Beach]], which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Group of Southern California and is the primary PBS member in the region, serves as the program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and [[WYIN]] in [[Gary, Indiana]] ([[WTTW]], the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN's [[Northwest Indiana]] service area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston, [[WGBH-TV]] airs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station [[WGBX]] rebroadcasts the weekday editions later the same evening, and the weekend editions live; a similar case exists in New York City but in reverse, where WLIW airs the weekday and weekend editions of the ''PBS News Hour'' live while WNET airs them on a tape delay (delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half-hour on weekends). [[KQED (TV)|KQED]] in San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with its [[KQED-FM|radio sister]] at 3:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific Time]] (6:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Time]]), in addition to airing the Western Edition on television at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. PT. Unusually for many years, the secondary station of [[Milwaukee PBS]], [[WMVT]], carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with the ''[[Nightly Business Report]]'' (which was the lead-in to ''News Hour'' on many member stations until the series finale on December 27, 2019), and half-hour international newscasts from [[Deutsche Welle]] and [[BBC World News]], due to an expanded schedule of [[PBS Kids]] and local-interest programming on WMVS; this has since been rectified with the launch of the all-hours PBS Kids subchannel network.

Archives of shows broadcast after February 7, 2000, are available in several [[streaming media]] formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on the [[American Forces Network]]. Audio from selected segments is also released in [[podcast]] form, available through several [[web feed|feeds]] on the ''PBS News Hour''{{'}}s subscriptions page with link to a [[FeedBurner]] website (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such as [[Apple Podcasts]], [[Google Podcasts]], [[Spotify]], and among others.

===Livestreaming===
[[File:PBS News logo 2024.svg|thumb|PBS News logo used since June 17, 2024 as a branding name for digital and social media platforms as well as news division name of itself.]]
The ''PBS News Hour'' is streamed live on the program's [[YouTube]] channel at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time each weeknight, with the Western edition also streaming live at 9:00&nbsp;p.m. ET (6:00&nbsp;p.m. Pacific Time). ''PBS News Weekend'' is also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00&nbsp;p.m. ET. Full episodes are available later on the ''PBS News'' YouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's website.

The ''News Hour'' was also livestreamed on [[IBM Cloud Video|Ustream]] until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livestreaming on the platform on September 17, 2018. The ''News Hour'' has also provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming the January 2017 [[First inauguration of Donald Trump|inauguration of Donald Trump]] on the program's [[Twitter]] account.

==International broadcasts==
* In Australia the program is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1:00&nbsp;p.m. AEST on [[SBS (Australian TV channel)|SBS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/tvinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/al_jazeera_news_for_sbs|title=Al Jazeera news for SBS|first=Amanda|last=Meade|work=[[The Australian]]|date=2011-08-04|access-date=2011-08-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203185007/http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/tvinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/al_jazeera_news_for_sbs|archive-date=2012-02-03|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* In New Zealand the ''NewsHour'' is seen Tuesdays through Saturdays at 10 p.m. on [[Face TV (New Zealand)|Face TV]] (Auckland).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tritv.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&catid=34&Itemid=54 | title=Triangle TV Programme Information: PBS NewsHour | publisher=Triangle Television | access-date=2011-08-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814000004/http://www.tritv.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&catid=34&Itemid=54 | archive-date=2011-08-14 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In Japan the program is seen Tuesdays through Friday on [[NHK|NHK BS]].<ref name=history />
* Around the world for members of the [[United States Armed Forces]] on the [[American Forces Network]].
* The program is seen internationally through the [[Voice of America]].

==''PBS News Hour'' editorial guidelines==
On December 4, 2009, when introducing the new ''PBS NewsHour'' format, Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism":<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/another-chapter-begins-for-newshour|url-status=live|title=Another Chapter Begins for NewsHour|last=Lehrer|first=Jim|author-link=Jim Lehrer|date=2009-12-04|publisher=PBS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731075531/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/another-chapter-begins-for-newshour|archive-date=2018-07-31|access-date=2019-10-05|quote=People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are. And here they are. Do nothing I cannot defend. 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 viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report. Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise. Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything. Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes, except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business.}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode| title = Another NewsHour Chapter Begins| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_osfdHNScs| series = The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer| station = PBS| air-date = 2009-12-04| transcript = Another Chapter Begins for NewsHour| transcript-url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/another-chapter-begins-for-newshour| access-date = 2019-10-05| archive-date = 2020-11-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224038/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_osfdHNScs| url-status = live}}</ref>
* "Do nothing I cannot defend."
* "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 viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am."
* "Assume the same about all people on whom I report."
* "Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise."
* "Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything."
* "Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions."
* "No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously."
* "And finally, I am not in the entertainment business."

==On-air staff==
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=== Current ===
====Anchors====
*[[Amna Nawaz]], co-anchor since January 2, 2023; joined April 6, 2018 as a chief correspondent<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Bauder |first=David |date=2022-11-16  |title=Bennett, Nawaz replacing Judy Woodruff on PBS 'NewsHour' |url=https://apnews.com/article/pbs-newshour-new-hosts-837007fb76521504e6df33c753b674c2 |access-date=2022-11-23 |work=Associated Press News |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Geoff Bennett (journalist)|Geoff Bennett]], co-anchor since January 2, 2023; previously anchor of weekend broadcast beginning April 2, 2022; joined January 3, 2022 as chief Washington correspondent<ref name="variety-2021nov18">{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Brian |title=Geoff Bennett Named PBS NewsHour's Chief Washington Correspondent, Weekend Anchor |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/geoff-bennett-pbs-newshour-washington-correspondent-weekend-anchor-1235115109/ |access-date=2022-01-09 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=2021-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118212804/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/geoff-bennett-pbs-newshour-washington-correspondent-weekend-anchor-1235115109/ |archive-date=2021-11-18 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
*[[Stephanie Sy]], anchor of ''PBS News Hour West''; contributing correspondent; and substitute weekend anchor; joined October 14, 2019
*[[John Yang (journalist)|John Yang]], weekend anchor since December 31, 2022; joined March 1, 2016 as a national correspondent

====Correspondents====
*[[Laura Barrón-López]] – White House correspondent and substitute weekend anchor (joined on June 16, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laura Barrón-López {{!}} Author |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/laura-barron-lopez |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=PBS NewsHour |language=en-us}}</ref>
*[[Malcolm Brabant]] – special correspondent, especially reporting from Europe, based in Denmark (joined June 15, 2015)
*[[William Brangham]] – correspondent/producer and occasional substitute anchor for the weekday and weekend program (joined August 10, 2012)
*[[Marcia Biggs]] - special correspondent, Middle East (joined December 8, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/marcia-biggs|title=Marcia Biggs &#124; Author|website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref>
*[[Jeffrey Brown (journalist)|Jeffrey Brown]] – chief correspondent for arts, culture, society, and substitute weekday anchor since December 23, 1998; joined as an off-camera journalist in 1988
*[[Tom Casciato]] - special correspondent (joined December 15, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/tom-casciato-senior-producer|title=Tom Casciato &#124; Author|website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref>
*[[Fred de Sam Lazaro]] – correspondent and contributor to the ''Agents For Change'' series (joined January 10, 1985)
*[[Lisa Desjardins]] – political correspondent substitute weekend anchor (joined October 29, 2014)
*[[Michael Hill (journalist)|Michael Hill]] – substitute weekend anchor (joined in April 7, 2020)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/michael-hill-named-substitute-anchor-pbs-newshour-weekend-beginning-september-5th-6th/|title=Michael Hill Named Substitute Anchor for PBS Newshour Weekend Beginning September 5Th and 6Th|date=2020-08-31}}</ref>
*[[Miles O'Brien (journalist)|Miles O'Brien]] – science and aviation correspondent, substitute anchor (joined October 5, 2010)
*[[Ali Rogin]] - weekend correspondent (joined March 14, 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/ali-rogin|title=Ali Rogin &#124; Author|website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref> 
*[[Nick Schifrin]] – foreign affairs and defense correspondent and substitute anchor (joined September 1, 2015)
*[[Paul Solman]] – business, economics and occasional art correspondent, creator of ''Making Sen$e'' (joined June 30, 1985)
*[[Hari Sreenivasan]] – special correspondent and former substitute anchor and weekend anchor (December 7, 2009 – March 27, 2022)
*[[Megan Thompson]] – substitute weekend anchor and special correspondent (joined June 2013)
*[[Judy Woodruff]] – senior correspondent and former weekday anchor (joined September 5, 1983 – June 24, 1993; joined [[CNN]] Group and returned to PBS on April 12, 2006; stepped down as main anchor on December 30, 2022)<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Ifill |first=Gwen |title=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |date=2006-04-12 |url=http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-h12v40kn1k |language=en |access-date=2019-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Brian |date=2022-11-11 |title=Judy Woodruff Will Leave 'PBS NewsHour' at End of 2022 |url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/judy-woodruff-pbs-newshour-departure-tv-news-1235430510/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="woodruff goodbye"/>
*[[Deema Zein (journalist)|Deema Zein]] – correspondent and digital anchor (joined April 9, 2018)

====Political analysts====
* [[David Brooks (journalist)|David Brooks]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' (Fridays; joined September 21, 2001)
* [[Jonathan Capehart]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' (Fridays; joined January 8, 2021)
* [[Tamara Keith]] of ''[[NPR]]'' (Mondays; joined November 1, 2012)
* [[Amy Walter]] of ''[[The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter|The Cook Political Report]]'' (Mondays and election night; joined July 29, 2004)
* [[E. J. Dionne]] of ''The Washington Post'' (substitute)
* [[Ruth Marcus (journalist)|Ruth Marcus]] (substitute)
* [[Susan Page]] of ''[[USA Today]]'' (substitute; joined June 6, 2012)
* [[Stuart Rothenberg]] of ''Inside Elections'' (substitute; joined October 30, 1992)
* [[Gary Abernathy]] of ''The Washington Post'' (substitute)
* [[Karen Tumulty]] of ''The Washington Post'' (substitute)
* [[Marcia Coyle]] (substitute)

=== Former ===
*[[Robert MacNeil]] – weekday anchor (October 20, 1975 – October 20, 1995; died on April 12, 2024)
*[[Jim Lehrer]] – weekday anchor and executive editor (December 1, 1975 – June 6, 2011; retired except on Fridays until his last day on December 30, 2011; died on January 23, 2020)
*[[Charlayne Hunter-Gault]] – weekday anchor (December 8, 1977 – June 13, 1997; retired)
*[[Kwame Holman]] – correspondent (1983 – 2014; retired)
*[[Roger Mudd]] – essayist and political correspondent (1987 – 1993; later became primary anchor for [[History (U.S. TV channel)|The History Channel]]; died on March 9, 2021)
*[[Margaret Warner]] – weekday anchor (June 24, 1993 – September 7, 2017; now at the Council of Foreign Relations)
*[[Gwen Ifill]] – Monday-Thursday anchor (also a Senior Correspondent) (October 4, 1999 – November 14, 2016; died from [[endometrial cancer]])
*[[Ray Suarez]] – weekday anchor (October 4, 1999 – October 25, 2013; moved to [[Al Jazeera America]], and left ''NewsHour'' after the launch of 2013's ''NewsHour'' with Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Suarez|first=Lucia|date=2013-10-29|title=Ray Suarez Reveals Why He Left PBS NewsHour|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ray-suarez-reveals-why-he_n_4175353|access-date=2020-06-24|website=HuffPost|language=en|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224056/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ray-suarez-reveals-why-he_n_4175353|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Terence Smith (journalist)|Terence Smith]] – weekday anchor (August 17, 1998 – November 23, 2005; retired)
*[[Yamiche Alcindor]] – White House correspondent (January 16, 2018 – January 7, 2022; moved to [[NBC News]])
*[[Mike Taibbi]] – special weekend correspondent substitute weekend anchor (April 11, 2015 – June 29, 2020; retired)
*[[Daniel Bush]] – senior digital political reporter on air during election night coverage (November 2015 – June 2021; now a White House Correspondent at [[Newsweek]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bush-b8364115/|title=Daniel Bush|website=LinkedIn}}</ref>
*[[Alison Stewart]] – substitute weekend anchor (2012 – 2020; now at [[WNYC]] Public Radio)

==== Political analysts ====
* [[David Gergen]] (Fridays; March 30, 1981 – March 18, 1994)
* [[Michael Gerson]] of ''The Washington Post'' (substitute, died on November 17, 2022)
* [[Paul Gigot]] (Fridays; March 25, 1994 – September 14, 2001)
* [[Jeff Greenfield]] (Weekends; July 29, 2018 – January 30, 2022)
* [[Mark Shields]] as a syndicated columnist (Fridays; November 11, 1988 – December 18, 2020; died on June 18, 2022, from [[kidney failure]])
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== Criticism and reception ==
In 1992, radio broadcaster [[David Barsamian]] called the ''NewsHour'' "stenographers to power", accusing them and other [[News media (United States)|news media]] of having a pro-establishment bias.<ref>David Barsamian, ''Stenographers to Power: Media and Propaganda'' (Common Courage P, 1992), 105.</ref>

=== Critical response ===
''PBS News Hour'' has received generally positive reviews from television critics, children, and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-xpm-2013-aug-06-la-et-st-gwen-ifill-judy-woodruff-pbs-newshour-20130806-story.html|title=Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff will co-anchor 'PBS Newshour'|last=Day|first=Patrick|date=2013-08-06|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224041/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-xpm-2013-aug-06-la-et-st-gwen-ifill-judy-woodruff-pbs-newshour-20130806-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of ''[[The Denver Post]]'' wrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/28/cutting-funds-for-public-broadcasting-would-hurt-colorado/|title=How eliminating federal funding for public broadcasting would harm Colorado|last1=Leonard|first1=David|last2=Schwalb|first2=Micah|date=2017-03-28|website=The Denver Post|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224037/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/28/cutting-funds-for-public-broadcasting-would-hurt-colorado/|url-status=live}}</ref> Phil Owen of ''[[TheWrap]]'' wrote, "The least partisan analysis."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/how-to-stream-pbs-newshours-midterm-election-night-results-coverage-live/|title=How to Stream PBS NewsHour's Midterm Election Night Results Coverage Live Online|last=Owen|first=Phil|date=2018-11-06|website=TheWrap|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-15|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224100/https://www.thewrap.com/how-to-stream-pbs-newshours-midterm-election-night-results-coverage-live/|url-status=live}}</ref> Tim Surette of ''[[TV Guide]]'' wrote, "The calm and credible information we need."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Surette|first=Tim|date=2020-05-24|title=10 Helpful Shows to Watch to Learn Everything About Coronavirus {{!}} TV Guide|url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/10-shows-to-learn-everything-about-coronavirus-pandemic-covid/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630090100/https://www.tvguide.com/news/10-shows-to-learn-everything-about-coronavirus-pandemic-covid/|archive-date=2020-06-30|access-date=2020-07-14|website=TV Guide}}</ref> Jennifer Gerson of ''The 19th'' wrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gerson |first=Jennifer |date=2022-12-21 |title=Amna Nawaz is stepping into history at PBS, and she hopes to make room for others like her |url=https://19thnews.org/2022/12/amna-nawaz-making-history-pbs-newshour/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=The 19th |language=en-us}}</ref>

In 2003, [[UCLA]] political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on "[[think tank]]" citations to map liberal versus conservative [[Media bias in the United States|media slants]] and published a study alleging liberal media bias in general. Based on their research, ''PBS News Hour'' is the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance.<ref>{{cite book|title=How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind|first=Tim|last=Groseclose|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|year=2011|isbn=978-0-312-55593-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://newledger.com/2011/08/the-medias-institutional-liberalism/ |title=Left Turn: The Media's Institutional Liberalism |date=2011-08-10 |first=Brad |last=Jackson |publisher=The New Ledger |access-date=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007034930/http://newledger.com/2011/08/the-medias-institutional-liberalism/ |archive-date=2011-10-07}}</ref> However, their methodology has been questioned.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/12/the_problems_wi.html |title=The problems with the Groseclose/Milyo study of media bias |publisher=[[Brendan Nyhan]] |date=2005-12-22 |access-date=2013-10-26 |archive-date=2020-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224043/https://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/12/the_problems_wi.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===FAIR study===
In October 2006, the [[media criticism]] group [[Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting]] (FAIR) accused the ''PBS News Hour'' of lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of the general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints. FAIR found that the ''PBS News Hour''{{'}}s guest list from October 2005 to March 2006 had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2–1, and minorities accounting for 15 percent of U.S.-based sources.<ref name=FAIR2967>{{cite web |last=Rendall |first=Steve |author2=Hollar, Julie |title=Are You on the NewsHour's Guestlist? PBS flagship news show fails public mission |url=https://fair.org/extra/are-you-on-the-newshours-guestlist |publisher=[[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting|FAIR]] |date=September–October 2006 |access-date=2019-01-02 |archive-date=2020-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224055/https://fair.org/extra/are-you-on-the-newshours-guestlist/ |url-status=live }}</ref> FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program, citing Liberty's majority owner, [[John Malone]], for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1277 |title=MacNeil/Lehrer Sells Out, Extra! Update February 1995 |publisher=Fair.org |access-date=2011-05-24 |archive-date=2020-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224050/https://fair.org/?page=1277 |url-status=live }}</ref>

''News Hour'' [[executive producer]] Linda Winslow responded to many aspects:

{{blockquote|FAIR seems to be accusing us of covering the people who make decisions that affect people's lives, many of whom work in government, the military, or corporate America. That's what we do: we're a news program, and that's who makes news... I take issue with the way the FAIR report characterizes each guest, which they have obviously done very subjectively. Witness the trashing of Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant (in the full report), who are not liberal enough for FAIR's taste. When you get down to arguing about degrees of left-and-rightness, I think you undermine your own argument.}}

She also accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward the political party holding a majority (at the time of FAIR's report, [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/10/a_fair_analysis.html|title=A FAIR Analysis?|last=Getler|first=Michael|date=2006-10-06|publisher=PBS|access-date=2011-05-24|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224100/https://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/10/a_fair_analysis.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Partnership with NPR==
The ''PBS News Hour'' partnered with [[NPR]] for the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016, in a strategy to prepare for the election between [[Donald Trump]] and [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://keranews.org/post/watch-and-fact-check-first-presidential-debate-pbs-and-npr|title=Watch And Fact Check The First Presidential Debate With PBS And NPR|publisher=[[KERA-TV|KERA]]|location=Dallas, Texas|access-date=2017-08-22|language=en|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224104/https://www.keranews.org/politics/2016-09-26/watch-and-fact-check-the-first-presidential-debate-with-pbs-and-npr|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/pbs-npr-join-forces-for-prime-time-convention-coverage/298741|title=PBS, NPR Join Forces for Prime Time Convention Coverage|website=adweek.com|date=July 12, 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-08-22|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224138/https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/pbs-npr-join-forces-for-prime-time-convention-coverage/298741/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2016/01/pbs-partners-with-npr-to-boost-election-coverage-tca-1201685432/|title=PBS Partners With NPR To Boost Election Coverage – TCA|last=de Moraes|first=Lisa|date=2016-01-18|work=Deadline|access-date=2017-08-22|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224140/https://deadline.com/2016/01/pbs-partners-with-npr-to-boost-election-coverage-tca-1201685432/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://current.org/2015/06/npr-and-pbs-newshour-partner-on-election-coverage/|title=NPR and 'PBS NewsHour' partner on election coverage|work=Current|access-date=2017-08-22|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224109/https://current.org/2015/06/npr-and-pbs-newshour-partner-on-election-coverage/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/pbs-npr-2016-presidential-election-programming-1201682225/|title=PBS Teams With NPR for 2016 Election Programming|last=Wagmeister|first=Elizabeth|date=2016-01-18|work=Variety|access-date=2017-08-22|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115224108/https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/pbs-npr-2016-presidential-election-programming-1201682225/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Institute for Nonprofit News]] (PBS News Hour is a member)

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|https://www.pbs.org/newshour/}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.newshour.org/ |title=''PBS NewsHour'' |access-date=2013-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990508062920/http://www.newshour.org/ |archive-date=1999-05-08 |url-status=dead}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/ |title=''PBS NewsHour'' |access-date=2013-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970605132107/http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/ |archive-date=1997-06-05 |url-status=dead}}
*[https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/newshour "''PBS NewsHour''" Special Collection.] American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Retrieved July 23, 2020.

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