Time Warner Cable Beltway Bureau in Growth Mode

摘要

At a time when many media bureaus covering Washington are seeing their resources slashed, Time Warner Cable is hiring. The modest D.C. outpost, located in the basement of the C-SPAN building-a quick hop from Capitol Hill-is looking to add another reporter to its scrappy operation. The bureau serves Time Warner Cable's 14 news channels in New York, North Carolina and Austin, Texas-not so much covering D.C. news as tapping the Washington-based lawmakers from these regions for stories of local interest. A year after it opened, Bernie Han, vice president of TWC news and local programming, says the bureau provides a big advantage over the local broadcast stations the cable channels go up against. "It's made a huge impact," Han says. "The other guys can't compete with what we gather in D.C."