“And then you have former President Barack Obama saying, ‘You know what? The second you say, ‘Defund the police,’ you lose a lot of people.’ Sure, that can be true at the exact same time. That may be true in some circumstances,” he says. “We have the right saying we need police for law and order, and they need more funding. In a future episode, his team is looking at parsing the nuances in the movement to defund the police.
Each program centers on a different “paradigm shift” - a phrase Schwartz is fond of using - to ascertain what society’s future holds. Schwartz is applying some of those lessons to Peacock’s “The Overview,” a project that he has been nurturing since the early days of “Stay Tuned.” He wants to create a space where his viewers can pensively “take a step back from the day to day stuff, and ponder the bigger questions that we’re facing.”Īfter climate change, successive episodes will tackle topics such as the future of elections and the significance of nostalgia in unpredictable times. “What we’ve seen with mobile and with social and with the digital world is that that one-way street doesn’t work for people that are used to engaging directly with the characters that they’re seeing reflected on the screen.” “I hate being talked at, I always have,” says Schwartz of the “one-way street” that traditional news programming typically offers. Producing for the platform meant understanding that having “some guy yelling the news at you and telling you panic” wasn’t as effective as taking a conversational approach, he says. And that’s always bothered me throughout this entire career.”Ĭlose friends in the news industry told him that going digital was akin to “committing career suicide.” But his Snapchat show, co-hosted with Savannah Sellers, has surpassed the 10 million subscriber mark, 75% of whom are under the age of 25. So I was speaking to this audience that didn’t really reflect my peers. “Coming up, I started in local news, and very quickly realized that people my age don’t watch local news. “Throughout, I’ve been struggling to find my own voice,” says Schwartz. He speaks both to the older demographics who watch traditional linear broadcast and cable news as well as the digital-first Gen Zs who watch Schwartz co-host NBC News’ “Stay Tuned” on Snapchat. Schwartz, an NBC News and MSNBC correspondent who has covered the 2020 election, immigration issues along the U.S.-Mexico border and the Olympics, leads something of a journalistic double life.
How HBO Max and Peacock May Shake Up the Golden Globes Races Peacock Releases 'Punky Brewster' Premiere Date, First Look NBCUniversal and Charter Communications Set Multi-Year Distribution Agreement Three episodes will premiere on the service at launch, followed by weekly Saturday episodes. This is “ The Overview,” Peacock’s new younger-skewing news show that will debut on NBCUniversal’s streaming service on Jan. The graphics are snappy, the aerial footage is grand, and the explanation is conversational - that is to say, very millennial-friendly. Wearing a dark gray hoodie and framed by neon lights in a garage, NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz is forgoing the traditional suit and anchor’s desk as he explains to viewers the growing conversation around climate change, as exemplified by California’s shrinking Salton Sea.
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