The following are extended excerpts of his interview with media correspondent Terence Smith. The NewsHour Media Unit is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Anchors discuss their 2000 election night coverage . A look at the new ways of covering the 2000 political conventions . New technologies are changing the way people watch television .
Media companies form content partnerships .
The evening news broadcasts on television today are quite a different animal than they were when they first went to a half an hour, which is sort of the modern era. In those days, the programs were essentially, I would say, an illustrated headline service. They tried to cover all the news of the day, at some length. Murrow's definition, in a sense. It was geopolitical news, economic news.