Making NewsHour Weekend: Reporting on the “Future of Food”

12m 7s

This year, the NewsHour Weekend special series “Future of Food” covered global efforts to produce and consume food sustainably and ethically. The producers behind the series, Megan Thompson and Melanie Saltzman, joined Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their reporting and how it impacted their own views on food. The series is supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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    Filming in challenging locations, tracking climate change

    S2019 E396 - 7m 26s

    This year, NewsHour Weekend producers Sam Weber and Connie Kargbo’s reporting took them from a slave rebellion reenactment in Louisiana to a moon landing 50th anniversary celebration in Houston to covering climate change’s effects on mangroves in Florida. They recently sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss their best stories from 2019 and the challenges of filming while on the road.

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