Do Content-Sharing And Collaborative Agreements Save Jobs Or Save Money?

Four of Chicago’s television stations, beginning Monday, are entering into a newsgathering collective where the stations will share eight pooled camera crews to cover local news events.

But Emily Barr, GM at ABC-owned WLS, is having none of it. She told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lewis Lazare that “she instinctively felt the new venture would strip WLS of some, if not all, of what the station most zealously seeks to safeguard: its image as an independent Chicago news operation.”

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