• by Ray Schultz , August 2, 2023

The Atlantic is partnering with PBS NewsHour and WETA on a rebranding of the weekly program Washington Week, effective August 11.

The show will be retitled Washington Week with The Atlantic, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, will serve as permanent moderator.

The announcement was made on Wednesday by Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president and chief executive officer of WETA and president of NewsHour Productions.

Washington Week has had temporary moderators from the PBS news team since the departure of Yamiche Alcindor, who left to write a memoir earlier this year, Deadline adds.

The Friday night program features analysis of political events and related topics by a revolving panel of journalists.

Goldberg will be the Goldberg will be the tenth moderator in Washington Week’s 56-year history. Others have included Robert Costa, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent, who served from 2017 to 2021, and Gwen Ifill, who moderated  from 1999 until her death in 2016.

“Washington Week holds a special and rare place on television, to have a space for civil and extended conversation about the issues affecting the news and our world," Goldberg says. "Gwen built this show into an institution, continued by Robert and by Yamiche, and I’m honored to carry on this tradition as The Atlantic embarks on this partnership.”

“As the longest-running news and public affairs program on primetime television, Washington Week is known for its incisive and thoughtful roundtable conversations featuring the sharpest minds in news – a reputation that will only be enhanced with Jeffrey and The Atlantic joining as partners,” Rockefeller says.