Media Decoder Blog: Alison Stewart to Leave PBS’s ‘Need to Know’
Alison Stewart, the second of the program's original co-anchors, said her schedule would not couple well with the show's plans to focus exclusively on the 2012 election.
News portal, super aggregator, and curator: new plans for PBSNews.org
PBS finds itself with what could be the definition of a "good" problem. Here's the scenario: Under the PBS umbrella you'll find news shows like PBS Newshour, Frontline, and Nightly Business Report, among others, all producing content that lives primarily on air and on individual websites. While video clips and stories are pulled into PBS.org,...
Media Decoder: PBS Show’s Future in Doubt
The producers acknowledge that "Need to Know" remains a work in progress, and PBS says it has not decided whether to renew it.
PBS Defends ‘Palinese’ Segment Mocking Sarah Palin
Who’d have guessed. Apparently some PBS watchers are also Sarah Palin supporters. Or at least Sarah Palin sympathizers. Comedian Andy Borowitz, in his short, funny segment that appears at the end of Jon Meacham’s ‘Need to Know’ PBS news show, this week made fun of Sarah Palin. Specifically he mocked her...
“Crude, Crass And Sexist” Tom Shales Comment Draws Justified Criticism
The new PBS show hosted by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and NPR's Allison Stewart, Need To Know, debuted last week, and even PBS' ombudsman had to admit the reviews were mixed. But no one was as vicious in their critique as Tom Shales of the Washington Post.Stewart responded today - calling one comment "crude,...
Jon Meacham Is Going To Save Newsweek (After He Finishes Taping His New PBS Show)
It's fair to say that Jon Meacham currently has a LOT on his plate. As you probably have already heard, Newsweek (the magazine that he oversees) was effectively put on the block by its parent, the Washington Post Company last week. Today he published a letter for from the editor outlining the urgent...
