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Kindel and Quinlan, both former newspapermen who have also logged time in TV, have been guiding TIME journalists into other video ventures too. Since 1991, more than 20 of the magazine's writers and correspondents have appeared in 60 segments of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. The Time video group's next outlet, beginning later this year, will be Time Warner Inc.'s Full Service Network, an experimental cable system in Orlando, Florida...
Press: Robert MacNeil will leave his NewsHour...
...most important thing for us was that Robin and I were free to make our own rules," wrote Lehrer in his book A Bus of My Own. "We would not beat up on our guests or embarrass them." The two anchors forged a complementary partnership -- MacNeil with his clipped, analytical style, Lehrer with his folksy Texas drawl -- but there are important differences. Says longtime NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Lehrer is like a "Marine drill sergeant"; MacNeil is like a "symphony conductor...
...MacNeil's Hour Passes...
Come next October, PBS's venerable MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour will become, simply, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Co-anchor Robert MacNeil announced he would retire next year after 20 years for budgetary as well as personal reasons...