In the News was a series of two-minute televised video segments that summarized topical news stories for children and pre-teens. The segments were broadcast in the United States on Saturday mornings on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1985. In the News was broadcast between animated cartoon programs, as were the arguably better-remembered Schoolhouse Rock and One to Grow On segments on competing networks ABC and NBC, respectively. NBC would also go on to produce its own competing version called Ask NBC News.

The "micro-series" (as it would be labelled today) had its genesis in a series of animated interstitials produced by CBS and Hanna Barbera Productions called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats narrating educational news segments tailored for children. This was eventually metamorphized into a more live-action-oriented micro-series produced solely by CBS' news division.

In the News segments attempted to explain the essence of complex news stories to children, and to do so in a way that might engage a young audience. Video clips of national or world events and special-interest stories were shown with voice-over narration specifically written with children in mind. Although news stories deemed to be inappropriate for children were not covered on In the News, the series did feature a wide range of then-current events.

On occasion, a special mini-documentary segment, In the Future, would be presented, examining events and technology that may exist in the near future.

CBS News journalists Christopher Glenn and Gary Shepard narrated the segments.

In the late 1970s, CBS News produced a Saturday afternoon news magazine for young viewers, 30 Minutes, which was along the same lines as In The News and the nighttime news magazine, 60 Minutes. The series aired irregularly from 1978 to 1982, with only a handful of repeating episodes; factors that kept the show from catching on widely. Christopher Glenn co-anchored 30 Minutes.

Repeats of In The News were seen during the commercial breaks on TV Land in the late 1990s.

External links

• ''In the News'' audio excerpt
• ''In the News - New Weapons (1976)
• ''In the News - Teenage Health Care (1976)
• ''In the News - Jimmy Carter 'Peanuts and Promises' (1977)''
• ''In the News - Cherry Blossum Time (1984)''
• ''In the News - The Atom Bomb (1985)''