Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News is an enterprise built on 30-minute and 60-minute increments of TV journalism. Executives are starting to think about longer blocks of time.As the Toronto International Film Festival continues into this weekend, Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News, and Liz Cole, president of the still-young NBC News Studios, will be there. “Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11,” a documentary co-produced by the Studios unit that features dozens of recollections by people of that fateful day, will get a special screening on the tragedy’s 20th anniversary.“We are really honored by the TIFF screening,” says Cole. “We’d like to have more like it in the future.”NBC News’ presence at TIFF signals its growing ambitions in the.
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