"NewsHour" receives grant for world health reports

PBS' "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" will add a production unit to focus on global health issues in the developing world. The three-year, $3.5 million grant is being funded through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Forty to fifty documentary reports on issues like HIV/AIDS, measles and tuberculosis in the developing world will air on the TV program, as well as digitally. There's also an outreach component to the grant. The Gates grant joins a similar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for "The NewsHour" to report on domestic health issues.