PASADENA, CA; July 15, 2024 – PBS announces the innovative new documentary series CITIZEN NATION, set to premiere Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), PBS.org, the PBS App, Prime Video and YouTube. The four-part program is an inspiring coming-of-age story that follows teenagers from across the U.S. with diverse personal and political backgrounds […]
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Retro Report and FRONTLINE air Facing Eviction
On July 26, Retro Report and FRONTLINE will air and begin streaming _Facing Eviction_, an intimate look at the experience of people at risk of being evicted during the pandemic.
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Retro Report Welcomes 145 Educators to New Advisory Teams
Two teams of accomplished educators will serve as advisors to Retro Report as it expands an innovative program supporting teachers.
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Retro Report on PBS!
We’re at the PBS Annual Meeting in Nashville! Here’s our Executive Producer Kyra Darnton announcing our new show – Retro Report on PBS – which will connect today’s headlines to historic moments from the past.
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Coming this fall, “Retro Report on PBS”
We’re excited to announce that coming this fall, we’ll be launching a weekly series on PBS that examines how today’s top stories connect to the past. “Retro Report on PBS” will be hosted by Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani and feature segments from Andy Borowitz!!!
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Education Outreach with Montclair Film
Retro Report and Montclair Film work together on media literacy outreach
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Launch party for our Human Genome series with STAT
In early April we premiered Finding the Code, the first in a three-part series with STAT, which explores genetic medicine and what its successes and failures mean for the future. Following the video we hosted a panel discussion with Mildred Solomon and Josephine Johnston of The Hastings Center.
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“Nuclear Winter” is shown at the Environmental Film Festival
_Nuclear Winter_ which examined whether Carl Sagan’s fear that a nuclear war could plunge the world into a deadly ice age is included in the Environmental Film Festival hosted by the Pulitzer Center. You can watch the story [here](https://youtu.be/0KhFJGEKcPs “Nuclear Winter”).
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Retro Report’s “slow journalism” is a counterweight to 24/7 news
With so much information available online, especially in media as easily digestible as short-form video, there’s a pressure to know a lot instead of knowing a lot about an important issue. www.videoink.com
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The third draft of history: Retro Report looks back at media-hyped stories of the recent past
Chris Buck founded Retro Report about two years ago, although the idea for an investigative, video-based media criticism project had been percolating with Buck well before that. Read the article in its entirety here.
