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10 unusual facts about PBS NewsHour


Andrew Kohut

Kohut is a regular guest on National Public Radio and television news programs such as PBS NewsHour, where he presents Pew's poll results and analysis.

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai

After 9/11, he took leave without pay from the World Bank and engaged in intensive interaction with the media, appearing regularly on PBS's NewsHour as well as BBC, CNN, US National Public Radio, other broadcasters, and writing for major newspapers.

Christine Brennan

Brennan now is a sports columnist for USA Today, an on-air commentator for ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour, NPR and Fox Sports radio and the author of seven books, including the national best-seller Inside Edge.

Mark Shields

Since 1988, Shields has provided weekly political analysis and commentary for PBS's award-winning PBS NewsHour.

Nessa Feddis

Feddis appeared on PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in March 2011 to discuss the Fed's proposed rule regarding interchange.

Feddis predicted on various national news stations, including PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and on ABC News that the Credit CARD Act would mean that credit card rates would increase generally, small businesses and consumers would find it harder to obtain credit, and limits would be lower.

News Hour

PBS NewsHour, an American television news programme broadcast on PBS

Saleh al-Mutlaq

Mutlaq told the PBS NewsHour last year that “Nobody would accept to see that Iraq is not united – that Iraq is going to be disintegrated and to see that the future of Iraq is going to be that way.

Security policy of Enrique Peña Nieto

During an interview with PBS NewsHour as president-elect, Peña Nieto said that Mexico – along with Latin America and the United States – should have a debate about drug legalization and the regulation of drug sells in the country, an approach advocated by some Latin American leaders who want to reduce the revenues of the drug trafficking organizations by legalizing marijuana.

Timothy Buie

With regard to the cause of autism, Buie said, in an interview with PBS NewsHour, that "there are over 100 suspect genes that are associated with a higher frequency of autism. So there is clearly an underlying genetic predisposition to this condition in many children. But the possibility that there is some environmental factor or some extrinsic factor that affects those children, I think, still needs to sit on the table."


Alan Tonelson

He has appeared also on radio and television broadcasts, such as the PBS NewsHour and Nightly Business Report.

Mall of America

In 2011, NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, PBS's Newshour both aired programs documenting security abuses by the Mall's security personnel.

U.S. Global Leadership Coalition

The book was released during a widely attended forum on the transition moderated by Jim Lehrer of the PBS NewsHour.