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PBS NewsHour selects ABC News executive to replace Winslow
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The appointment ends a months-long search to replace Linda Winslow, who has worked on the weeknightly news program since the mid-1970s.
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Winslow of NewsHour sees need for greater investment in public TV’s news programming
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The final installment of our interview with Linda Winslow, outgoing executive producer of the PBS NewsHour.
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NewsHour sticks to founding mission: “Allow the audience to reach its own decisions”
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In the first installment of our interview with Linda Winslow, outgoing e.p. of PBS NewsHour, she discussed her early start in broadcast journalism and working with Fred Friendly, a founding father of public broadcasting. In this, the second of three parts, she discusses the start of the NewsHour, working as a woman in media, and the NewsHour’s commitment to its mission. Part three will be posted next week. This transcript has been edited. Current: What did you do next after Public Broadcasting Laboratory?
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With retirement ahead, EP of PBS NewsHour reflects on her start in broadcasting
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Linda Winslow rose from covering a fireman’s muster in small-town Massachusetts to leading a signature news program on public TV.
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For NewsHour, one staff is stronger than two
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They busted down newsroom walls, adding some space but much more humanity, doubling the number of desks, adding new editing stations and a fixed camera for quick shirt-sleeves standups. The broadcast and website now carry the PBS NewsHour title and they come from the same combined staff.