When John McCain and Barack Obama square off in the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, the referee of the candidates’ slugfest will be Jim Lehrer. A veteran of 10 presidential debates over the ...

With his longtime co-host Jim Lehrer, he delivered thoughtful reports that stood in stark contrast to the commercial networks’ ever more sensational newscasts. By Elizabeth Jensen For 36 years, mostly ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jim Lehrer, a longtime PBS NewsHour anchor and co-founder, has passed away at the age of 85. NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff announced Thursday that Lehrer died ...

Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-founded and co-hosted the long-running PBS NewsHour and MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, died today of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian ...

Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on ...

ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 12: PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer poses for a portrait in his studio in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, May 12, 2011. Lehrer will soon retire. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington ...

Born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1934, Jim Lehrer received an A.A. degree from Victoria College and a B.J. in 1956 from the University of Missouri before joining the Marine Corps. From 1959 to 1966, he was ...