Embracing Collaboration, News Groups Push Past Conventions
Executives from Telemundo, Scripps News, CBS News and Stations, Gray Television and SciLine shared the collaborations they’re undertaking and the places they’re taking news content beyond the conventional newscast in a panel at last week’s Programming Everywhere event at the NAB Show.
CBS’s ‘On The Dot’ Makes Climate A Vehicle For Newscast Change
On the Dot with David Schechter, a new reporting brand from the CBS Local News Innovation Lab, aims to shake up the O&O’s local newscasts with longer-form, cinematically shot deep dives on climate change.
Handcuffs in Hallways, which debuts today, spotlights a data-driven collaborative reporting effort between CBS Local News Innovation Lab and the group’s stations across 14 markets. The project investigates a troubling trend of children being arrested at school.
Local news executive Chad Cross named vice president, content development, CBS Stations, and veteran CBS Stations executive Andrea Parquet-Taylor named vice president, CW and independent stations news director.
