Jon Meacham, editor of
Newsweek, may add a television job to his magazine schedule. He is in final talks to be the co-host of a new PBS Friday night public affairs series called "Need to Know,"
which will be broadcast from the network's new studios in Lincoln Center. The co-anchor for the program, which begins May 7 at 8:30 p.m., is expected to be Alison Stewart, formerly of NPR's
short-lived "The Bryant Park Project" morning show and, before that, anchor of MSNBC's "The Most."
The new series, an extension of a PBS Web site with the same name, replaces "Bill Moyers
Journal" and "Now." It will be produced for PBS by New York's WNET.org. Meacham won the Pulitzer last year for his book "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House."
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