- Created By
Robert MacNeilJim Lehrer
- First Aired on
Oct 20, 1975
- Popularity: 49.0483
- 49 votes
- Networks
- (US)
- Production
WETA (US)MacNeil-Lehrer ProductionsThirteen (US)NewsHour Productions
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
15 seaons till May 02, 2025
Last episode: Episode 88
Seasons & episodes
Total 15 seasons, 2942 episodes

Specials
Aired
Episode 1Election Night Coverage 201660 min
Managing editors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff co-anchor live coverage of election results. Joining them are syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks, Cook Political Report's Amy Walter, and Andra Gillespie, Emory University's director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference. PBS Newshour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan addresses down-ticket races and national trends with Nathan Gonzalez, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report. NEWSHOUR correspondents John Yang and Lisa Desjardins will report from the Clinton and Trump campaign headquarters, respectively, with additional reporting by correspondent William Brangham and online politics editor Dan Bush from the newsroom.
Episode 2President Barack Obama's Farewell Speech60 min
President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address Tuesday from Chicago, where he launched his political career eight years ago. NewsHour's Judy Woodruff is joined by syndicated columnist Mark Shields, Chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp, and Harvard University historian Annette Gordon-Reed for analysis of the outgoing president's speech.
Episode 3Special Report: President Trump's address to Congress60 min
PBS NewsHour's complete coverage of President Donald Trump's first address to Congress with post-analysis from Mark Shields, David Brooks, Amy Walter, Matt Schlapp and Karine Jean-Pierre.
Episode 4Jeff Sessions Hearing Special60 min
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his recusal from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and much more.
Episode 5Inside Putin's Russia60 min
Correspondent Nick Schifrin and producer Zach Fannin take us inside Vladimir Putin's Russia, with an in-depth look at the resurgent national identity, the government's propaganda machine, the risk of being a Kremlin critic and much more.