The next edition of the award-winning series MetroFocus premieres in the New York metro area tonight, June 18 at 7 p.m. on WLIW21 and 8:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN. The series is pre-empted on NJTV this week.
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New York City Schools chancellor and former principal Carmen Fariña discusses the strategies and habits that make successful principals with a panel of four New York City principals, at an event hosted by the NYC Department of Education, the Wallace Foundation and WNET. MetroFocus reports on the conversation as part of American Graduate, a project made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities keep students on the path to graduation.
Host Rafael Pi Roman talks with Steve Malanga, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute about the New York City Comptroller's report that poor performance from Wall Street money managers and high fees cost the city's pension system $2.5 billion dollars in "lost value" over the past 10 years.
A picture can be worth a thousand words, and in his film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris explores how photography has shaped the identity and public
PERCEPTION of African-Americans from the times of slavery to today.
And in a 92nd Street Y discussion moderated by
NBC Today's Matt Lauer, Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven and
PBS Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton discuss the Masterpiece series Mr. Selfridge, where Piven plays the titular character - an American retail tycoon who journeys to London to establish one of the most high-end department stores in the world.
MetroFocus is an award-winning multi-platform news magazine focusing on the New York region. The MetroFocus television program features interviews, in-depth reporting, content from many partners and solutions-oriented reports from the community. Major areas of coverage include sustainability, education,
Science and technology, the environment, transportation, poverty and underserved communities. MetroFocus.orgamplifies that reporting with daily updates and original stories that also cover culture, government and politics, the economy, urban development and other news in the metropolitan region. More information at: thirteen.org/metrofocus/about-us-faq/
MetroFocus is a production of WLIW21 in association with WNET, parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21. For 50 years, THIRTEEN has been making the most of the rich resources and passionate people of New York and the world, reaching millions of people with on-air and online programming that celebrates arts and culture, offers insightful commentary on the news of the day, explores the worlds of
Science and nature, and invites students of all ages to have fun while learning.
MetroFocus is made possible by James and Merryl Tisch, the Ford Foundation, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, Charlotte and David Ackert, Jody and John Arnhold, Betty and John Levin and the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation. Corporate funding is provided by Mutual of America.
