CBS Evening News is expanding its “Eye on America” weekly franchise with it moving to a separate unit with Jim Axelrod as executive editor. The goal is for “Eye on America” stories to air four nights a week. The new “Eye on America” segments will premiere in the spring. They will run first on CBS Evening News and then be featured across all CBS News and Stations programs and platforms.
Just a few weeks after anchor Norah O’Donnell signed a new long-term contract extension with the network, CBS News has tapped her longtime colleague Adam Verdugo to be executive producer of the CBS Evening News. Verdugo, who had been executive story editor on the program, will be based out of its Washington home studio. The Evening News had been without a permanent EP since Jay Shaylor left the program last summer.
