Report: Newsweek‘s Meacham in Talks for PBS News Show
Jon Meacham, Newsweek‘s editor in chief, is in talks to co-host a new weekly PBS TV newsmagazine, “Need to Know,” according to a report by The New York Times‘ Media Decoder blog.
Says Media Decoder:
The co-anchor for the program, which begins May 7 at 8:30 p.m., is expected to be Alison Stewart, formerly of NPR’s short-lived “The Bryant Park Project” morning show and, before that, anchor of MSNBC’s “The Most.”
The new series, which will be an extension of a PBS web site with the same name, replaces “Bill Moyers Journal” and “Now.” It will be produced for PBS by New York’s WNET.org, from a new street-side studio at Lincoln Center.
Meacham will not be leaving Newsweek, according to the report.
The author of the Pulitzer-winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Meacham has recently appeared on FishbowlNY’s pages for commissioning Barack Obama to write a January Newsweek cover story on the earthquake in Haiti and for informing his staff of layoffs in November.
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