Paley Front Row 2020 Presented by Citi. PBS executives, hosts, and program creators (Paula Kerger, Ken Burns, Judy Woodruff, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) gather with moderator Eric Deggans at Paley Front Row 2020 to celebrate the network's fiftieth anniversary. Topics include: the lack of commercial pressure at PBS stations, allowing for complex examinations of difficult subjects; how televised learning aids have supplemented at-home schooling during COVID-19; Burns' recollection of coming to PBS in 1981 to direct "Brooklyn Bridge"; how anchoring "PBS NewsHour" differs for Woodruff from her
NBC reports; Gates' secret for making his "Finding Your Roots" series speak to everyone; Kerger's reaction to the impact on viewers' donations during the pandemic; and memories of iconic PBS reporters Jim Lehrer, Robert MacNeil, Gwen Ifill, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.