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PBS NewsHour Collaborations Require Buy-In from the Top
Collaboration is one of the public broadcasting buzzwords of the moment. The new PBS NewsHour is a national news organization that is trying to figure out how collaboration works. Collaboration was one of the bullet points when we announced the changes to the program. As with the staff reorganization, which I wrote about in my previous post on MediaShift, our...
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Merging Online, Broadcast at NewsHour Still a Work in Progress
About two months have passed since we officially became the PBS NewsHour. I wrote my previous update for MediaShift" just after the two staffs -- broadcast and online -- merged into one building and were getting used to having each other around. But, really, how merged have these two teams become? The initial good news is that, after our re-launch...
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Merging Online and Broadcast Cultures to Reinvent 'NewsHour'
The "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" is re-incarnating itself as the "PBS NewsHour" on December 7. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes details involved in creating the new program, and chief among them is a complete reorganization of our editorial teams to create a merged newsroom for online and broadcast.
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