Changes at PBS’s News Hour:
Until recently, the employees who worked on the Web site of “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” on PBS were based in a building a brisk five-minute walk through city traffic from their on-air colleagues. The Web and television staffs interacted only at Mr. Lehrer’s annual holiday party. “They were all the recognizably young ones,” said Linda Winslow, the show’s executive producer. But in early November, the staffs were merged into a single 20-person bullpen…
Martin commentary: The writing is so on the wall. You’re web team cannot be separate from your TV or print team. If you do not have a transition plan for a web-centric future then your program or publication will die. It appears that a severe budget shortfall and the ill-health of its anchor is causing this reassessment at NewsHour but maybe desperation is the mother of reinvention.
