EditorialThe singer Irma Thomas, long known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans, at the city?s PBS station, Feb. 9, 2022. (Camille Lenain/The New York Times)
EditorialThe cast rehearses for “Reading Rainbow Live,” with a butterfly cake in the foreground that harkens back to the original children’s series’ theme song, in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialThe singer Irma Thomas, long known as the Soul Queen of New Orleans, at the city’s PBS station, Feb. 9, 2022. (Camille Lenain/The New York Times)
EditorialRoger Mudd, right, and Tom Brokaw, who were briefly co-anchors of NBC's "Nightly News," during a news conference at the 21 Club in New York, in the early 1980s. Mudd, the anchorman who delivered the news and narrated documentaries with an urbane edge for
EditorialSarah Colt, director of the new PBS “American Experience” documentary, “Billy Graham,” at home in New York, May 7, 2021. (Nathan Bajar/The New York Times)
EditorialMartin Bookspan, the announcer for 30 years for “Live from Lincoln Center,” at Lincoln Center in New York, May 9, 2006. (Richard Perry/The New York Times)
EditorialLarry Basgall, a puppet wrangler and costume designer, adjusts the position of “Donkey Hodie” on the set of a new half-hour PBS Kids series named for the yellow puppet that sports a magenta mohawk, in Chicago, March 30, 2021. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
EditorialRoger Mudd, right, and Tom Brokaw, who were briefly co-anchors of NBC's "Nightly News," during a news conference at the 21 Club in New York, in the early 1980s. Mudd, the anchorman who delivered the news and narrated documentaries with an urbane edge for
EditorialJim Lehrer, writer of the play "Bell,” a one-man show about Alexander Graham Bell, at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Sept. 5, 2013. (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)
EditorialJim Lehrer, writer of the play "Bell,” a one-man show about Alexander Graham Bell, at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Sept. 5, 2013. (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)
EditorialTom Steyer speaks during the Democratic presidential debate co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)