JAY SUBER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: CNN "NEWSROOM" began with Ted Turner. For me, the reflective moment is that he said: Look, we have to do something. I have got all of these assets here. The kids aren't learning. So if they're not going to read, we're going to tell it to them.</s>BRIAN TODD, PRODUCER/ORIGINAL NEWSROOM ANCHOR: His task was to come up with a relatively short and concise program targeted toward kids in middle schools and high schools that would be I guess, kind of, a modern, jazzed up version of a newscast.</s>SHELLEY WALCOTT, NEWSROOM ANCHOR: Any given show covers the leader issue of the day.</s>WALCOTT: Sixty-two thousand wildfires...</s>WALCOTT: And then we move into an "Editor's Desk," which is covering either science or history. Then we have a segment called "Worldview," which looks at issues from around the world.</s>TOM HAYNES, NEWSROOM ANCHOR: I think what sets "NEWSROOM" apart is the fact that we go into a lot of depth into what we are talking about. Give me a little background. Tell me a little bit of history about the country that we are talking about. And that way I can understand better the impact the story is going to will have on the rest of the world. I think one of the most important things we do is we talk about different cultures around the world. And for a kid in high school, that kind of information is invaluable.</s>SUBER: It's a nightly process of trying to ask the question at the end of the day: What do we teach them today? What did we leave them with?
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