The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, renamed last week the PBS NewsHour, is hardly perfect journalism. Full Article at MyDD

ARLINGTON, Va. — Until recently, the employees who worked on the Web site of "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" on PBS were based in a building a brisk five-minute walk through city traffic from their on-air colleagues. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News

Editors Note: The election in Honduras might have settled who becomes president in January. But the real issue is what will happen to the thousands who were galvanized into politics by the coup. They had no real candidate in the election. Full Article at New America Media

• Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me • Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label it as such • I am not in the entertainment business When The... Full Article at mediabistro.com

From the very beginning, the Obama White House has been obsessed with the process by which national security decisions are made -- and with getting the press to treat that obsession as evidence that this White House is somehow more serious about... Full Article at The Weekly Standard

Romenesko Letters | PBS.org On Friday's final PBS newcast carrying the name "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," the anchor listed guidelines for what he called MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. "They're worth sharing with everyone," writes Gene Krzyzynski. Full Article at Romenesko

In 1970, we met Jim Lehrer as a local TV news anchor. The KERA/Channel 13 report had a simple name: Newsroom. Now, 40 years later, he is once again anchoring a show with a simple name. Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram

If anyone wonders whose name should be ascribed to the new Afghanistan "strategy" unveiled Tuesday by President Barack Obama, a Wednesday exchange between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer provided the answer: Lehrer:... Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Hard to believe, but it's been a year since we launched this blog. Full Article at Online NewsHour

When the "PBS NewsHour" relaunches Monday without Jim Lehrer's name in the title, the program will also debut a new series called "Patchwork Nation." Full Article at mediabistro.com

Today marks the final broadcast of PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Beginning Monday the show will simply be titled "PBS NewsHour," although Lehrer will continue as anchor. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Paul Solman has been business, economics and occasional art correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since 1985. Full Article at Newshour With Jim Lehrer

JIM LEHRER: Mr. Secretary, welcome. SECRETARY ROBERT GATES: Thank you. MR. LEHRER: How confident are you that the president’s plan for Afghanistan is actually going to work? SEC. Full Article at Small Wars Journal

Defense Secretary Robert Gates talks to Jim Lehrer about President Obama's decision to deploy 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan after the new year. JIM LEHRER: And to our interview with Defense Secretary Gates. Full Article at Online NewsHour

Judy Woodruff reports on the White House's Afghanistan briefing, and then columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sit down with Jim Lehrer to preview President Obama's Afghanistan announcement. Full Article at Newshour With Jim Lehrer

Yesterday's news that Jim Lehrer's name will no longer be in the title for PBS' "NewsHour" wasn't the only change in the non-profit network. Full Article at mediabistro.com

This is the first of a series of posts by Anna Shoup, the local/national editor for the program that will soon be renamed "PBS NewsHour." Full Article at Journerdism

After a one-year hiatus, Lawrence’s River City Reading Festival plans to return in 2010. Full Article at Lawrence Journal World

In defending cable news and talk radio from PBS host Jim Lehrer's statement that they offer relatively shallow approaches to health care coverage, Newsbusters' Tim Graham asks: Does Lehrer think Rush Limbaugh doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of a... Full Article at Media Matters for America