From Jim Romenesko’s column: Jim Lehrer, 76, who has anchored “NewsHour” for 36 years, will leave the daily broadcast on June 6, but continue to appear on Fridays to moderate its weekly news analysis segment featuring a panel of journalists, reports Paul Farhi.
He’ll also continue to be involved with the program’s producer, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. In January, Lehrer said his plan was “to drift away” from the newscast. He told David Zurawik that “I still hear the sirens, and as long as I hear the sirens, I’ll still be there to find out where the hell they’re going.”
Lehrer received the OPC President’s Award in 2009.
The show titled, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” gave its final broadcast on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, and has gone by the title “PBS NewsHour,” with Lehrer and rotating senior correspondents Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown as co-anchor the hourly broadcast ever since.