After Trump Shooting, PBS NewsHour Anchors Say Original RNC Coverage Plans ‘Went Out the Window’

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The “PBS News Hour” team had just arrived in Milwaukee on Saturday when the shooting at a Donald Trump rally took place, forcing the broadcast’s team to immediately switch gears.

Speaking on Monday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour — from their hotel rooms at the Republican National Convention, via Zoom — “PBS News Hour” co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett said they “jumped in and covered it like any other breaking news story.” “This, of course, being one of the most consequential breaking news stories,” Nawaz said. “Not exactly the way we thought we’d be kicking off coverage here at the RNC.

But news happens and that’s what we do.” Nawaz said packages and other things were completely readjusted after the news. “We’re not afraid to change plans,” she said. “We have a plan going into everything.

There were plans for taped pieces, for example, coming in to the RNC about the kinds of narratives and stories we could be telling on the sidelines.