Need to Know
tv show
166 total episodes
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4 seasons
First Aired May 07, 2010
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Overview
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."
Season 2011
51 episodes
Air Date
January 07, 2011
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Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan
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January 07, 2011
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Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail
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January 14, 2011
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Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China
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January 21, 2011
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Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?
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January 28, 2011
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Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s
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February 04, 2011
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Ahead of the Class
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February 11, 2011
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The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking
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February 18, 2011
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Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates
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Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions
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Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions
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Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation
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Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat
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The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education
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Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit
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Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago
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Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women
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Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers
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Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet
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Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown
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Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity
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Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse
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New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome
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Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages
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Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times
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Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety
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California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem
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Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling
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Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality
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Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons
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The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall
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Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon
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Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change
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Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping
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9-11, Ten Years Later
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September 09, 2011
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Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector
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Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale
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Chemical pollution and the EPA
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Help wanted
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The politics of resentment
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The nuclear question
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Jobs in the balance
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Creating opportunity
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Coming home: The enduring sacrifice
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The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices
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Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown
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Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio
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Making Congress work
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Mayor under siege
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Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq
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Eye on Iowa
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