CBSN, which launched on Nov. 6, 2014, streams a continuous newscast and also allows users to click on streams of individual stories. It is available on the CBS News website, on the network’s mobile apps and through services like Apple TV, Roku and Android TV. Starting this week, it can also be seen on Xbox One. Political reporter Major Garrett will host a preview of Saturday’s Democratic debate an hour before it begins on CBSN. The free service will stream the debate live, accompanied by data and tweets provided by Twitter.
CBS News has tapped CNN alum Christa Robinson as head of communications. Robinson takes over the department from Sonya McNair, who left the network last month.
Facebook will unveil a news notifications app dubbed “Notify” next week in partnership with some high-profile media brands. CNN, Mashable, CBS News, The Washington Post and Vogue are the inaugural partners for the app.
Taking a page from trend-setter Donald Trump, CBS News announced this morning it’s entered into a partnership with Twitter to create an “enhanced viewer experience” for its Nov. 14 Democratic debate.
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WXIA’s DeMarco Morgan Joining CBS News
Sonya McNair, CBS News senior vice president for communications, is leaving the company for personal reasons, president David Rhodes informed staff on Monday.
CBS To Overhaul 2016 Convention Coverage
Instead of putting money and resources into into the “air-conditioned skyboxes” above the convention floor that typically showcase network reporters and analysts, CBS News will focus on participants “on the ground,” according to CBS News President David Rhodes.
John Dickerson takes the helm Sunday as the ninth host of television’s six-decade-old, top-rated Sunday gabfest. He replaces folksy-yet-venerable Bob Schieffer, who anchored Face for 24 years, more than half of Dickerson’s life. Dickerson is the old gray network’s first digerati Sunday moderator, a wonk who lives on the Web and, at 46, is three decades younger than his predecessor.
The 78-year-old Schieffer moderated his final broadcast Sunday after 24 years, ending a journalism career that started at age 20 at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Schieffer will host CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday for the last time after 24 years. He’s retiring from a journalism career that began at 20 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station and landed him at CBS News in Washington when he walked in on someone else’s interview.
The veteran newsman, who announced his retirement last month, had said only that he would be leaving this summer. But summer’s coming early for Schieffer, who wants to relax for the warm weather months while CBS gives his successor, John Dickerson, the chance to settle in before the presidential campaign begins in earnest, so his last day will be May 31.
CBS honored the 27-time Emmy winner, who died in a Manhattan car crash on Feb. 11, with a memorial service Thursday.
CBS Political Director John Dickerson, a former Time magazine and Slate writer who has been with CBS since 2009, will begin his new role as moderator of Face the Nation early this summer. Schieffer, who made the announcement on Sunday’s show, noted that Dickerson “sure has the right bloodlines” for the assignment. Dickerson’s mother, Nancy, was the first female correspondent in the CBS News Washington bureau.
A former newspaper reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Schieffer joined CBS News in 1969 and has been the network’s chief Washington correspondent since 1992. He began at the political affairs show “Face the Nation” in 1991, asking direct questions to politicians in a Texas twang.
CBS President-CEO Leslie Moonves said CBS News President David Rhodes has extended his contract through February 2019. Rhodes has been president of CBS News since 2011.
NEW YORK (AP) — The CBS News crime franchise “48 Hours” this week launches a series of episodes on cold cases that’s aimed at satisfying an increased appetite among viewers […]
Sanford “Sandy” Socolow, who as Walter Cronkite’s right-hand played a key role in the anchorman’s coverage of the biggest news of the 1960s and ’70s, including the space launches, Vietnam War and Watergate, died Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York from complications from a long illness. He was 86.
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft has issued an apology for an extramarital affair that he calls a “serious lapse” in judgment, a “personal failure” and […]
CBS News President David Rhodes, who was put in charge of the division in November, is making changes: Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews will be SVP, news administration, and Tim Gaughan becomes VP, newsgathering.
Richard C. Hottelet, one of the pioneering group of wartime journalists hired by CBS radio newsman Edward R. Murrow, died today. He was 97. Hottelet was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Berlin at the start of World War II — and even spent several months in a Nazi prison — before joining CBS in London in 1944.
Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, today announced his intention to step down from his role as chairman and to return to full focus on running the newsmagazine, effective at the beginning of the new year. At that time, David Rhodes, who has been president of CBS News since 2011, will assume sole leadership of the division.
What’s Behind CBS’s Digital News Push?
CBS News chief David Rhodes talks about the network’s decision to launch a streaming news service — CBSN — as part of a strategy to uphold his network’s brand and format while also attracting the viewers that will keep it in business decades from now.
