Covering President Donald Trump is particularly challenging in that he has no experience in government, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff told TV critics at TCA. “He comes from the world of entertainment and approaches the job with a mindset that fits the world that he came from. He has been brash, aggressive, he…

You can't get away from politics at today's PBS panels at TCA. The pubcaster this afternoon connected reporters and critics with the PBS NewsHour co-anchor/managing editor team of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff via Skype from Philadelphia, where they are covering the final day of the Democratic National Convention. An…

MacNeil-Lehrer Prods., owner and co-producer  of  PBS NewsHour, is in talks with Washington D.C. public TV station WETA about taking it over. The station already is the co-producing partner of the program currently owned by the production company founded by its original anchors, Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil. These…

Judy Woodruff, half of PBS' newly named NewsHour co-host team came to TCA to dispel the notion that her pairing with Gwen Ifill was historic. "We're not the first," Woodruff said via Skype. "Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were the first female co-anchors." Ifill, appearing via satellite said, "here, right now, it's news. We…

PBS this morning named Gwin Ifill and Judy Woodruff — the stars of its most recent presidential election coverage —  co-anchors and managing editors of Newshour. It marks the first time two women are co-anchoring the evening newscast on a major US television network, PBS chief Paula Kerger noted at Summer TV Press Tour…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. It came as no surprise that panelists at the TCA presentation to discuss PBS' 2012 election coverage were asked whether the Colorado movie theater shooting would affect the debate in the upcoming presidential campaign and election. Panelists included Gwen Ifill of W…