NOW on PBS is a PBS newsmagazine especially covering social and political issues.
History
First airing in January 2002, and originally called NOW with Bill Moyers, the program was launched as a collaboration between NPR news and PBS. the program featured documentary reporting, interviews and commentary on current events. Bill Moyers served initally as sole host of the program while NPR reporters and commentators produced individual segments for the hour long-program.
In the autumn of 2003, David Brancaccio was introduced as a co-host. In 2004, the Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Kenneth Tomlinson paid an outside consultant $14,000 to watch NOW with Bill Moyers and analyze the politics of the show. The study was not approved by the CPB. after the study became public in 2005, many including the CPB-funded NPR, criticized the resulting study as being full of errors and a waste of money.[1] [2]
In the summer of 2004 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that it would no longer provide funding for NOW on PBS. Moyers subsequently announced that he would leave the show after the US 2004 elections and appeared for the last time on December 17, 2004. After his departure, the show was reduced to a half hour.
Maria Hinojosa is credited as a Senior Correspondent for the show while presenting many investigative pieces. She and Brancaccio are the only two presenters and usually alternate segments.
Awards
In 2008 NOW on PBS was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award, Overseas Press Club for a story on child brides. NOW on PBS was also awarded a National Business Emmy Award in 2007 and a Naional News Emmy Award for best newsmagazine segment in 2004.
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