Promotion News at PBS NewsHour; Lisa Desjardins Named Political Director
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PBS NewsHour announced a flurry of promotions on Tuesday morning — five in total — including Lisa Desjardins as political director, P.J. Tobia and Frank Carlson as producers, Alexis Cox as segment unit producer, and Corinne Segal as a reporter/producer on the arts team.
Desjardins, who joined NewsHour in October of 2014 as a politics reporter and editor, will be covering her fifth presidential election in 2016 as she takes the political director reins. She spent nearly ten years with CNN prior to her stint at PBS, and was a Peabody Award recipient for their coverage of the 2008 election.
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