Jim Lehrer to step down as PBS NewsHour anchor
PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer will step down from his long-running role in June, but remain behind the scenes.
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PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer will step down from his long-running role in June, but remain behind the scenes.
Lehrer has been part of the show since 1975 when it began as The Robert MacNeil Report. In 2009 the show changed its name from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to the PBS NewsHour with a multi-anchor team.
Lehrer will still appear on many Friday evenings and remain involved in the editorial direction of the show.
“I have been laboring in the glories of daily journalism for 52 years…36 of them here at the NewsHour and its earlier incarnations,” he said. “There comes a time to step aside from the daily process, and that time has arrived.”
Executive producer Linda Winslow, said: “I don’t know another iconic television anchorperson who would be willing to take his name off the program he helped create – while remaining on the air. Jim’s point in doing that was, “We’re all on the same team.” He wanted to create an enterprise that could be the bedrock for public broadcasting’s journalistic future – and I think he’s done that.”
The show airs in Australia at 4:30pm weekdays on SBS ONE.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
7 Responses
Always like watching Newshour-and SBS don’t even have episodes of it on their site but video.pbs.org.
Jim Lehrer,
I salute you. You have demonstrated, by your reporting, that ethics is not a dirty word in journalism. Thank you.
Tony.
Does anyone know when SBS (SBS One) first started airing this program? Sounds like a long time…
A brilliant show and a great anchor. If there is anything happening in domestic US politics that you’re interested in, then there is no better news show.
Its had more name changes than P. Diddy though – I started watching when it was The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.
Sad to see him leave the anchor-chair, but glad he’ll still be with the show. Newshour is one of the most under-rated current affairs shows on TV and a lot of the credit should go to Lehrer.
A+
Always a really good show with civil, rational views put by guests unlike the mindless ranting found on cable news channels.