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Congratulations to our colleagues as PBS News Hour's "Trans in America" series has been named the recipient of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists's Excellence in Transgender Coverage Award. You can watch our reporting here: https://lnkd.in/eTKPPZas

Monday, June 10, marked our first day inside a brand-new studio. After approximately four years of planning, construction and design work, followed by weeks of rehearsals, Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz anchored the first episode of the PBS News Hour inside the new space. William Brangham snapped these behind-the-scenes shots inside the studio and control room.

Tonight, the PBS NewsHour enters a new era. For the past four years, the NewsHour team, engineers at WETA, and outside designers and companies have been planning, constructing and designing a new studio space for our weeknight broadcast, PBS News Weekend and Washington Week PBS. Friday night marked the last NewsHour inside our old studio building, our home for the last several decades. Watch Monday's episode of the PBS NewsHour from our new studio by visiting pbs.org/newshour. Photos by Tim McPhillips

Our coverage of the ongoing Israel-Hamas War has been named a Peabody Awards recipient. Congratulations to our team on this honor! https://bit.ly/44BMit9

We have exciting news to share: PBS NewsHour's Instagram channel has been recognized with a #Webbys People’s Voice Award in the Social, News & Politics category by The Webby Awards. https://bit.ly/4dbjEmr

We’re saddened to share that Robert MacNeil, a driving force behind the show that would become the NewsHour on PBS, died Friday at the age of 93. A lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, MacNeil’s trade was using words. Combined with his reporter’s knack for being where the action was, he harnessed that passion to cover some of the biggest stories of his time, while his refusal to sensationalize the news sprung from respect for viewers. He was on the ground in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He interviewed Martin Luther King Jr., Ayatollah Khomeini, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But he had his biggest breakthrough with the 1973 gavel-to-gavel primetime coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. That Emmy-winning series of special reports was also the turning point for the future of daily news on @PBS, leading to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, before it was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and other subsequent iterations, all the way up to the PBS NewsHour. As co-founder and anchor, he helped guide millions through extraordinary times with his intelligent, passionate and humane storytelling. In a 2000 interview, MacNeil said that he and news partner Jim Lehrer aimed to add “a kind of respect for complexity to the news that was already there.” Their approach, he said, was based on “fundamental fairness and objectivity, and also the idea that the American public is smarter than they’re often given credit for on television, and they don’t all need things in little bite-sized, candy-sized McNuggets of news.” Share your memories of Robert in the comments.

We have exciting news: PBS NewsHour has been nominated for two Webby Awards! These #Webbys nominees include our Instagram channel and science animations. PBS is also in the running for The Webby Awards Media Company of the Year, receiving 26 nominations across platforms. Vote for us using the links in the comments 👇

Have a question about space you'd like answered? Here's your chance to ask the experts. NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien is going to answer your questions during an upcoming video conversation. Submit your queries here: https://lnkd.in/gXhWpRqk

Merriam-Webster Dictionary's word of the year is the genuine article. "Authentic," defined as "not false or imitation," "true to one's own personality, spirit or character," "worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact," "conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features," and "made or done the same way as an original," is the dictionary company's top word for 2023. Searches for "authentic" on the Merriam-Webster website are generally high, but saw increases throughout the year, editor at large Peter Sokolowski told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview ahead of Monday's announcement. “We see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,” he said. “What we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.” Other leading words in 2023 included "kibbutz," "deadname," "coronation" and "deepfake," the dictionary company said. The Merriam-Webster word of 2022 was "gaslighting." Read more: https://to.pbs.org/3uwQX1F