There is perhaps no greater exercise in democracy than the election of a national leader, and no greater test of the media’s role in upholding transparency and educating the electorate. We take this mission to heart. All year, GBH News has held virtual events to ensure voters are prepared for Election 2020, including our recent news forums on bridging the partisan divide, polling and spotting fake news and our MA ballot question primer. That’s in addition to FRONTLINE’s documentaries "The Choice" and "Whose Vote Counts" and American Experience’s "The Vote."

NCAM, an accessibility consulting unit of GBH, which made its mark early on by inventing captioning for broadcast television, is working with states and app developers to improve the accessibility of voting information, election-related websites and tools and the voting experience itself for the more than 35 million U.S. voters who have a disability. Most recently, NCAM has worked with Voatz, a Brookline-based developer, to ensure that its voting app, long used by overseas military personnel, is accessible domestically for people with disabilities. We sat down with Donna Danielewski, senior director of NCAM, and Claire Houston, NCAM accessibility analyst, to learn more.

Our first episode of You & Julia At Home — an extension of You & Julia for pandemic times, in which we chat and cook with chefs from their home kitchens — features Amy Traverso, Senior Food Editor at Yankee Magazine and co-host of GBH's Weekends with Yankee, making Julia's famous Quiche Lorraine. We talked with Amy about how Julia would find comfort through cooking during the pandemic, and how Julia inspired so many female chefs in Boston.

Pam Johnston, recently named GBH’s new general manager for news, brings the expertise honed during eight years as senior director of strategy and audience for the PBS investigative series FRONTLINE.

In the vibrant, competitive realm of online media, GBH is revolutionizing its way of doing business to connect with Millennials and Generation Z. As GBH moves beyond broadcast and draws in a younger, online audience, the old rules simply don’t apply. The creation of the new YouTube series, 'Career Hacks,' for viewers in their late teens and 20s, is a case in point.

The new school year is now underway in most communities across the Commonwealth, but in a very different way than in the past. Whether brick, click or both, it has become clear that a long-term commitment to expanding access to resources for underserved students is essential.

In November 2020, 32 million Latino people — the largest nonwhite voting bloc in US history — will be eligible to vote for president. Historically called a “sleeping giant” that eschewed campaigns and voting, this ethnic group is poised to awaken, said Bernardo Ruiz, director-producer-writer of "Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground," part of Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES arts and culture documentary showcase. The film will air on GBH 2 on October 6 at 9pm ET.

For the Boston families whose computer coding class shifted to Zoom when COVID-19 hit, online learning surely wasn’t the same, but it was laughter- and creativity-filled, with parents and children engaged at a level “far better than we expected,” according to Gay Mohrbacher, course co-facilitator and a WGBH Education senior project manager.

WCAI, WGBH’s news affiliate covering the Cape, Coast and Islands, celebrates 20 years on air this year with an ever-deepening commitment to covering the human impacts of climate change. Steve Junker, news director, and Eve Zuckoff, environment reporter, reflect on Cape Cod’s environmental niche.

Hosted by gynecologist Tara Allmen, author of Menopause Confidential, the WGBH film aims to equip women — and the men in their lives — with information that will improve their menopausal experience. A lack of understanding leaves many women filled with dread and woefully uninformed about this natural phase of life