CNN looks to double domestic news operations

[napi21]

CNN will put new news bureaus in 10 U.S. cities as it seeks to double its domestic newsgathering operations, parent company Time Warner Inc. reported.

The new operations will be in Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Houston; Las Vegas; Minneapolis, Minn.; Orlando, Fla.; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; and Seattle. CNN already has bureaus in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

The new bureaus will employ a mix of traditional general assignment reporters with CNN "show-based correspondents," plus “all-platform journalists,” who will combine new technologies with traditional journalism for all CNN networks and services.


http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/08/11/daily77.html?f=et50&ana=e_du

Hmmm...I wonder if this will mean an improvement in their coverage?

[grannie4peace]

1. doubt it

[Billy Burnett]

2. Now they can get out the repug talking points even more efficiently.

A new and improved swiftboat perspective from Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Houston; Las Vegas; Minneapolis, Minn.; Orlando, Fla.; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; and Seattle. CNN already has bureaus in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

[cascadiance]

3. They may have doubled their "news" operations, but not their *news* operations!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. All missing white women and car chases all the time, this is CNN. n/t

[peace13]

5. CNN = FOX , that is all.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Definition Of A News Bureau

One reporter and a producer/cameraman with a satellite uplink. But it's better than nothing. There's a Chicken Noodle Nuze bureau here in Chicago that is pretty much that. Several years ago I met their reporter and asked how big the Chicago staff was, she pointed to the camerman and said, "we're it and we cover about 500 miles of turf". Most of the stories were "human interest" or tracing down dead blondes and natural disasters. But again, after years of cutting back, this should be noted as an improvement.

[magellan]

7. More trebuchets!

The better to catapult neocon propaganda.

[City Lights]

8. Swell. Just what we need...more know-nothing corporate talking hedz

pretending their spewed bullshit is news.