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NBC Stations To Share With Nonprofit News Outlets
- L.A. Times, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 4:32 PM
Ten NBC-owned stations around the U.S., including those in Chicago, L.A. and Philadelphia, will work with nonprofit news outlets like Pro Publica to strengthen news gathering and reporting. This move will presumably help fulfill Comcast's promise to add local public-interest programming as part of its deal to buy NBCUniversal.
This is also part of a major media trend to share resources "as operators try to trim the high costs that come with producing stories on their own," writes James Rainey. He provides specifics of media outlets where such arrangements are in place.
