TRANSITIONS - That Was 2014 and What's to Come 2015

"What does 2014 promise for the year to come?" PBS NewsHour 12/31/2014

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SUMMARY:  What will history say about 2014?  As the year comes to a close, Hari Sreenivasan gets insight from Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Helena Andrews of The Washington Post, and Evan McMorris-Santoro of BuzzFeed, who take stock of 2014 and make predictions for next year.

GWEN IFILL (NewsHour):  Well, the fireworks and the champagne corks are already popping in other parts of the world, as 2014 leaves and 2015 arrives.  So what should we be expecting during the next 12 months?

We thought we’d ask.

Hari is back with the questions.

HARI SREENIVASAN (NewsHour):  Every December 31, the world arrives at a time of reflection.  T.S. Eliot said next year’s words await another voice, though writer Robert Clark said that the new year is exactly the same as the old year just colder.

To find 2015′s voice and discuss if it will be really any different than 2014, we brought together Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent with “The Atlantic,” Helena Andrews of The Washington Post’s Reliable Source, and Evan McMorris-Santoro, White House correspondent for BuzzFeed.

So, let’s start with something we don’t talk about too much on the program, which is entertainment and really the consequences of the Sony hack.  We were talking about it a little bit off camera.  What do you think is going to be the sort of giant repercussion?  On the one side, we saw really how Sony executives think and talk about their actors behind closed doors.  And on the other side, we launched a movie without having 3,000 theaters, and it didn’t do so bad.

"What 2014 global conflicts and challenges will carry over into the new year?" PBS NewsHour 1/1/2015

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SUMMARY:  In 2014, ISIS, Boko Haram and Crimea became household names and Ebola re-entered the scene as a medical crisis.  Gwen Ifill speaks with Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News, David Ignatius of The Washington Post, and David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee about this past year’s biggest global challenges, and what conflicts to expect in the coming year.