Can a print journalist become a TV reporter? Some face significant challenges. Others find success.

Three years ago, The E.W. Scripps Company, one of the largest broadcast news organizations in the United States, prepared to launch an ambitious initiative. The Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative, a multiyear program with Google, was designed to transition experienced print journalists into broadcast news careers, at a time when local newspapers were closing and newsrooms were shrinking.

Here’s how it would work: Selected journalists would be hired into full-time roles in Scripps’ local and national newsrooms. They’d receive extensive support: training, mentoring, job shadowing, hands-on work and individual coaching. The program promised to offer these journalists a chance to embrace new challenges and reignite the passion that first drew them to journalism.