Before he left TVNewser a couple months ago, Kevin Allocca sat down with Simon Marks for our Media Beat series. Marks, the president and CEO of MacNeil-Lehrer Productions and a veteran international reporter, talks about the current coverage of international news by American TV networks, and how technology has changed the way foreign news is reported and broadcast.

• Part II, Tuesday — Simon Marks on “Doing more with Less”

• Part III, Wednesday — Marks: “The PBS Newshour has an audience that is larger than anything you see in the cable news universe”