In part two of our Media Beat interview, Simon Marks, the President and CEO of MacNeil-Lehrer Productions talks about merging the broadcast and online newsrooms of the PBS Newshour. “The broadcast benefits from the fact that there are more people in the field with a multi-disciplinary approaches: they’re able to shoot, they’re learning to edit on final-cut pro.”

• Part I – Yesterday: How Technology Changes How the World is Covered

• Part III – Tomorrow: Marks on the Future of the “PBS Newshour”