After a long career spent covering politics and foreign affairs, John Yang has recently focused on the workings of the Supreme Court. Now he’s about to add to his caseload.
Yang, 64 years old, will take over as anchor of “PBS News Weekend,” marking the latest change to the venerable news franchise once known as “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” since it was placed entirely under the aegis of Washington’s Weta in April. His tenure as the lead presenter of the weekend program commences December 31, just as the current anchor ,Geoff Bennett, joins Amna Nawaz, at the weekday edition of the show, “PBS NewsHour,” succeeding Judy Woodruff.
Yang vows to deliver coverage of “the same sorts of issues that are important to our weekday audience and that you only see on ‘NewsHour,’ quite frankly — the strong foreign coverage, the attention to climate change.”
But Yang will also be able to add...
Yang, 64 years old, will take over as anchor of “PBS News Weekend,” marking the latest change to the venerable news franchise once known as “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” since it was placed entirely under the aegis of Washington’s Weta in April. His tenure as the lead presenter of the weekend program commences December 31, just as the current anchor ,Geoff Bennett, joins Amna Nawaz, at the weekday edition of the show, “PBS NewsHour,” succeeding Judy Woodruff.
Yang vows to deliver coverage of “the same sorts of issues that are important to our weekday audience and that you only see on ‘NewsHour,’ quite frankly — the strong foreign coverage, the attention to climate change.”
But Yang will also be able to add...
- 12/8/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
New York Times national political reporter Yamiche Alcindor has joined PBS NewsHour as White House Correspondent. She joins on January 16. Correspondent John Yang, who has covered the Trump Administration since Inauguration Day 2017 as well as Secretary Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in 2016 for NewsHour, has been named the broadcast's new national correspondent. Alcindor will continue to serve as a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC as she assumes her…...
- 11/30/2017
- Deadline TV
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