Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz for PBS NewsHour

PBS News Hour Co-Anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz. Photo by Mike Morgan.

PBS News is the primary daily, breaking and special news producer for PBS.

It is the consolidator news brand within News Hour Productions LLC, a wholly owned nonprofit subsidiary of WETA that produces PBS News Hour, PBS News Weekend and Washington Week with The Atlantic; primetime and daytime breaking news and political specials; and documentaries. PBS News also maintains a robust footprint across digital and social platforms, including YouTube. PBS News Hour is co-anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. It serves as public television’s marquee news program and features the latest news, analysis, field reports from around the world, and live studio interviews and discussions. For nearly 50 years, millions have turned to the nightly broadcast for the solid, reliable reporting that has made News Hour the most objective and credible news programs on television. PBS News Weekend is anchored by John Yang. Jeffrey Goldberg is the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic, the longest-running primetime news and public affairs program on television.

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Senior Staff

  • Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer, PBS News Hour, PBS News Weekend, Washington Week; Senior Vice President, WETA
  • Chris Alexander, Executive Director, Media Resources
  • Lorna Baldwin, Senior Producer
  • Kojo Boateng, Creative Director
  • Emily Carpeaux, Senior Producer, Field Segments
  • Leah Clapman, Managing Editor, Education
  • Richard Coolidge, Senior Managing Producer
  • Travis Daub, Director, Digital
  • Anne Davenport, Senior Producer, Arts
  • Vanessa Dennis, Director, Product
  • Gretchen Frazee, Senior Coordinating Broadcast Producer
  • Erica Hendry, Managing Editor
  • Murrey Jacobson, Senior Producer & National Affairs Editor
  • Kamili Johnson, Senior Director, Production Management
  • Stephanie Kotuby, Senior Editorial Producer; Executive Producer, Washington Week
  • Phil Maravilla, Senior Producer, PBS News Hour West
  • Nick Massella, Executive Director of Communications, Spokesperson
  • Mat Morrison, Senior Producer, News
  • Patti Parson, Managing Producer
  • Michael Rancilio, Executive Vice President and General Manager
  • Talesha Reynolds, Senior Producer, Content and Special Projects
  • Matt Speiser, Vice President, Operations
  • Beth Summers, Senior Producer, Politics
  • Morgan Till, Senior Foreign Affairs Producer
  • Rachel Wellford, Executive Producer, PBS News Weekend; Senior Producer, Washington Week

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The PBS News Hour informs, engages and empowers its audience with news, analysis and insights that we all need to connect with our communities, our nation and our world.   We respect our vast and diverse audience, on air and online, as we seek to earn trust each day through the quality and intelligence of our work, providing factual, meaningful and distinctive journalism.

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PBS News Hour retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.

We accept donations, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.

We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.

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