Stephen Segaller

Stephen Segaller oversees all national and local programming from WNET’s producing subsidiaries – THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Need To Know, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Cyberchase, SundayArts, and Reel 13; and documentary series featuring Henry Louis Gates Jr., Niall Ferguson and Simon Schama among others, as well as the continuing series Shakespeare Uncovered

Segaller is also Executive-in-Charge of the new PBS NewsHour Weekend. Launched this September, the half-hour program is anchored by Hari Sreenivasan and produced at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center. Each weekend broadcast will present the day’s news and report from the field on topics including education, healthcare, energy, science and technology, religion, finance and the arts.

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Wednesday 2 October 2013, 7.30pm Columbia School of Journalism The Pulitzer Building, 116th and Broadway, New York, NY 10027

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