may 2010

Need to Know

Series Premiere Fri 7th, 8:30 p.m. thirteen.org/ needtoknow FEATURED THIS MONTH

Need to Know thirteen continues its tradition of providing groundbreaking news programming with Need to Know Fridays, 8:30 p.m. on PBS, a new weekly news & public affairs series beginning May 7th premiering this month online and on-air. Co-anchored and 24/7 at thirteen.org/ by acclaimed journalists Alison Stewart and Jon needtoknow Meacham, it features stories on the economy, the environment and energy, health, security, and culture. Stephen Segaller, VP of Content at WNET.ORG, and Shelley Lewis, Executive Producer of Need to Know, spoke with THIRTEEN about this exciting new initiative.

Need to Know offers an innovative approach to news reporting, fully integrating the broadcast and website. What inspired you to create the series? stephen segaller: We wanted to create a newsmagazine that is weekly, topical and inherits the depth and experience of our award-winning series like Wide Angle and Exposé, but also offers something entirely new in online journalism. The result is Need to Know, a broadcast and Web destination that

reinforces the intelligence and substance expected h Si nnott : J osep segaller p h otos

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Describe the relationship between the Shelley, you’ve enjoyed an eclectic TV show and the website. career in network news. What attracted shelley lewis: They’re one and the you to public media? same. We don’t think of it as a website SL: The idea of creating a new kind with a TV show or a TV show with a of journalism that is both Web- and website. We hope and believe that fans television-based simultaneously was of the website will join us on television a challenge I’d never taken on, and and fans on television will check us out the fact that it’s a PBS project is on the Web. definitely a plus. It’s exciting to be working with really smart people who Will viewers be able to contribute story value creative thinking. ideas to the series? SS: They’ll be able to contribute story What makes a story something your ideas, comment on stories, and suggest viewers and readers “need to know”? new directions to take stories we’ve SL: Sometimes the answer to that already done. question is that the story is so incredibly SL: We’re also hoping to have an area interesting. The challenge is distinguish- of our website called “The Pitch Room” ing between the “need to know” stories where Web users can pitch stories to and those that only require a short take. our editorial staff. I think on a Friday night people want a show that’s provocative, informative, and What qualities will the two co-anchors, entertaining—not “ha-ha” entertaining, Alison Stewart and Jon Meacham, bring but entertaining in that it’s engaging and to the series? absorbing to the audience and readers. Ss: They’re both incredibly smart journalists with very different back- How important are member dollars to grounds. Alison won a Peabody Award programs like Need to Know? for her political reporting on MTV and Ss: Member support for all our pro- has become a celebrated multimedia gramming is critical. It often makes the journalist at NPR and MSNBC. And difference between hoping to produce Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning something and actually being able to biographer who, as the editor of produce something. In these tough Newsweek, has to decide what his times, we’re more dependent on viewer readership needs to know every support than ever before. week. So they’re very complementary high-octane talent.

Major funding for Need to Know on PBS has been provided by PBS, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 2 evening and night

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Her Life, Her Poetry, Her Garden

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American Masters: The Doors: When You’re Strange Wed 12th, 9 p.m.

The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists made The Doors one of America’s most iconic, influential rock bands during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. This American Masters film—the first feature documentary on the band—tells their story using original footage, much of it previously unseen. Johnny Depp narrates. thirteen.org/americanmasters Courtesy of Elektra Records of Elektra Courtesy 8 evening and night

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8:00 Keeping Up to Side” A movie fan drinks u rtes co Appearances Will Hyacinth’s a poisoned daiquiri at a 11:00 Charlie Rose Repeats family ruin her reputation? benefit thrown by a Tue 25th, 1:30pm. 8:30 As Time Goes By The Hollywood star. Repeats villagers shower Lionel and early Tue 25th, 1:30am. 5/25 EARLY TUESDAY AM Jean with gifts. 10:30 The Marines See Mon 12:00 Tavis Smiley Repeats 9:00 PREMIERE Reel 13 17th, 10pm. [R] Tue 25th, 1pm. Classics: “Leave Her to 12:30 Nature See Sun 23rd, Heaven” (1945) A jealous 5/24 EARLY MONDAY AM 8pm. Repeats Sat 29th, 5pm. woman (Gene Tierney) kills 12:00 China From the [R] to keep her husband to Inside (Parts 1-4 of 4) DE 1:30 Masterpiece Mystery! herself. Repeats early Sun 4:00 Great Flood of 1936 See Sun 23rd, 9pm. [R] 23rd, 12:50am. 5:00 Smart Travels: Pacific 3:00 Masterpiece 10:55 PREMIERE Reel 13 Rim With Rudy Maxa Contemporary See Thu 20th, Shorts Short films selected 9pm. [R] by THIRTEEN viewers via online voting. Repeats early 24 MONDAY Sun 23rd, 2:45am. 25 TUESDAY 11:00 Reel 13 Indies: “Jelly” 5:30 BBC World News (2009) Why can’t life be 6:00 NJN News 5:30 BBC World News like a John Hughes movie? 6:30 Nightly Business Report 6:00 NJN News Repeats early Sun 23rd, 7:00 PBS NewsHour 6:30 Nightly Business Report 2:50am. 8:00 PREMIERE Antiques 7:00 PBS NewsHour Roadshow San Jose finds 8:00 NOVA: “Mystery 5/23 EARLY SUNDAY AM include Great Basin bas- of the Megavolcano” A 12:50 Reel 13 Classics See kets. Repeats early Wed remote lake in Southeast Sat 22nd, 9pm. [R] 26th, 2:30am. Asia conceals evidence of 10 evening and night

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