"I fell in love with radio the moment I started doing it," Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, tells us. She explains why she loves it and how she prepares for interviews. #BriefButSpectacular | PBS NewsHour

249K views · 3K reactions | Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, told the late Gwen Ifill in 2015 that she was "not ever going to retire ... just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi." Franklin died Thursday at the age of 76, her publicist told the Associated Press. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report airs Friday, October 13 at 8:30 pm on WPBS-TV. Co-anchored by PBS NewsHour's Amna Nawaz from Israel and Geoff Bennett from our nation’s capital, the one-hour primetime special will wrap the historic, devastating week of violence in Israel and Gaza with reports from the region, interviews and analysis on the path forward for the Middle East and rest of the world. | WPBS-TV | Facebook