{
  "id": 688861,
  "title": "How ‘Meet the Press,’ TV’s Longest-Running Program, Continues to Take the Nation’s Political Pulse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/how-meet-the-press-tvs-longest-running-program-continues-to-take-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-12T18:02:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/meet-the-press-tv-longest-running-program-nbc-100-1236832645/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "When Kristen Welker was named host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 2023, she went back and re-watched pivotal episodes and interviews conducted by the show’s legendary moderator Tim Russert. Russert, who died in 2008, reinvented “Meet the Press” in 1991 when he moved away from the show’s original press conference format and turned it […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}