Need to Know

2010 · Documentary, News

Need to Know is an American public television news program produced by WNET, and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate-stations in the United States. It aired from May 2010 until June 2013. PBS stated that the show was intended to fill the public-affairs and "hard"/investigative news void left by both the one-hour Bill Moyers Journal, and the cancelled, half-hour NOW on PBS. Both departing shows had been long-running, highly rated, and critically acclaimed for their journalistic quality, and focus on issues that deeply impacted regular Americans' lives, yet went largely ignored by commercial TV news outlets. "NTK" branded itself the "TV and Web newsmagazine [that] gives you what you need to know." PBS had described the show as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to news-gathering and reporting."

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1.Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan 2.Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail 3.Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China 4.Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?5.Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s 6.Ahead of the Class 7.The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking 8.Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates 9.Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions 10.Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions 11.Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation 12.Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research 13.Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat 14.The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education 15.Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit 16.Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago 17.Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women 18.Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers 19.Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet 20.Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown 21.Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity 22.Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse 23.New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome 24.Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages 25.Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times 26.Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety 27.California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem 28.Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling 29.Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality 30.Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons 31.The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall 32.Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon 33.Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change 34.Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping 35.9-11, Ten Years Later 36.Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector 37.Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale 38.Chemical pollution and the EPA 39.Help wanted 40.The politics of resentment 41.The nuclear question 42.Jobs in the balance 43.Creating opportunity 44.Coming home: The enduring sacrifice 45.The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices 46.Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown 47.Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio 48.Making Congress work 49.Mayor under siege 50.Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq 51.Eye on Iowa