Mark Shields, who has been doing a regular segment on PBS NewsHour for more than 33 years, will step down from the broadcast on Dec.
18.No successor has been named. He will remain at the NewsHour as senior contributor.Shields, a syndicated columnist, and New York Times columnist David Brooks have been doing the regular Friday discussion segments since 2001, with anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff as moderator.
Shields previously teamed with David Gergen and The Wall Street Journal‘s Paul Gigot. Unlike some of the regular panels on cable news channels, the discussions are typically thoughtful and congenial.In a statement, Shields said, “For 33 years, thanks to a large risk taken by Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil in 1987, I’ve had the
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