The New York Times has an interesting piece on the changes afoot at NPR and NewsHour. An excerpt:

ARLINGTON, Va. — Until recently, the employees who worked on the Web site of “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” on PBS were based in a building a brisk five-minute walk through city traffic from their on-air colleagues. The Web and television staffs interacted only at Mr. Lehrer’s annual holiday party. “They were all the recognizably young ones,” said Linda Winslow, the show’s executive producer.
But in early November, the staffs were merged into a single 20-person bullpen, with four adjacent digital editing bays carved from what had been the correspondent Gwen Ifill’s office.
Four days after the move, a gunman killed 13 people and wounded 43 others in a rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas. As word spread, the digital employees were silent, to the bafflement of some of the TV producers, who had jumped for the telephones.
It turned out they were exchanging Twitter messages with the Army and a member of Congress. “We learned so much just having them in the room,” Ms. Winslow said.
It has been a tough 19 months for “NewsHour” as it has dealt with a severe budget shortfall as well as the prolonged absence of Mr. Lehrer last year, after an emergency aortic valve replacement. But Mr. Lehrer returned reinvigorated. Instead of stepping down, as some had expected, he pushed for what has been the program’s biggest overhaul since 1995, when Robert MacNeil retired as the co-anchor. And PBS hopes the changes will attract new audiences, whether on air or online.
Beginning Dec. 7, Mr. Lehrer’s name will not be on the program, for the first time since 1976. Instead it is being renamed “PBS NewsHour,” which prompted a new streamlined logo and graphics. Mr. Lehrer will have a regular co-anchor; on the first program it will be Ms. Ifill, but Judy Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown are in the rotation. A new correspondent, Hari Sreenivasan, formerly of CBS News, will begin reading a news summary each night.
A redone Web site will go up Thursday. It will be easier to find Mr. Brown’s popular but often hidden Art Beat blog. Ms. Woodruff and Ms. Ifill, along with much of the rest of the staff, will begin contributing to a news analysis blog, as well. Mr. Sreenivasan, once he settles in, will anchor regular video news updates on the site, which will also feature extended interview material not used on the air.
All the show’s content will be more easily adaptable to various digital outlets, including, eventually, an iPhone app, said Simon Marks, the show’s new associate executive producer.

Edgy.