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The Network makes the first admission that it will probe more deeply after offering an apology for Lara Logan’s report.

During brief remarks at the end of the hour correspondent Lara Logan said “60 Minutes” was misled and made a mistake in its reporting in an Oct. 27 story on the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan admitted on Friday morning that she and the news magazine had made a “mistake” in their reporting of a controversial story about the Benghazi attacks. A video copy of that story was taken off the 60 Minutes website late Thursday.

Lara Logan’s story relied on an interview with a man who may have lied. Says CBS News, “We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction.”

A 60 Minutes correspondent also said the report should have acknowledged that a book written by a man she interviewed was being published by a CBS subsidiary.

The company’s news and interactive units are developing a digital programming service to be distributed on mobile phones, tablets, game consoles and over-the-top TV distribution systems.

The story of CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s breached computers just took another sure step toward wrapping up Weirdest Media Story of 2013 honors.

A suggestion from CBS This Morning co-anchor Charlie Rose that the Assad interview air on Rose’s eponymous show on PBS made it happen.

Austin Goodrich, 87, worked under cover as a CBS correspondent before his CIA affiliation was revealed. He joined the relatively new Central Intelligence Agency soon after his graduation from Michigan in 1949. While stationed in Oslo and Stockholm early in his clandestine career, he sought a suitable occupation to cover his true profession. He assumed a dual identity as reporter and spy.

CBS said an intruder, working remotely using CBS News Washington reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s accounts, executed commands involving the search and filtering of data. The network said it is taking further steps to identify the intruder and how that person gained access to her computer.

Bill Felling has been promoted to executive director, news services for CBS News. In his new role, Felling will direct day-to-day newsgathering for CBS affiliates and broadcasters worldwide reporting to […]

Jeff Pegues today was named a CBS News correspondent. Pegues will report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, and he will be based in Washington. His appointment is effective […]

For years, CBS’s Sharyl Attkissonhas been one of the few mainstream reporters pursuing critical stories about the Obama administration. Today, as “scandal season” takes hold in Washington, she has seen her longstanding skepticism of the White House and the Justice Department become the conventional attitude among a formerly deferential Beltway press corps.

Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation. She said today  that she is “not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today. I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley gave his fellow journalists a scolding this weekend while accepting an award from Quinnipiac University, urging his colleagues to quit worrying about being “first” to publish a story and to avoid using social networking sites for information, as they are solely “gossip.” “This has been a bad few months for journalism,” he lamented. “We’re getting the big stories wrong over and over again.”

Veteran reporter Sharyl Attkisson and her network, CBS, are flipping the usual script on the highly politicized Benghazi story. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. She has hunted down important eyewitnesses and pressed for release of documents that might shed more light on the attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

John Miller, who appears primarily on CBS This Morning, had a dual role during the network’s Boston Marathon bombing coverage. As a low-key explainer and reporter, he helped keep CBS ahead on key details of the investigation as the suspects’ identities began to emerge, and away from missteps made by other news organizations.

Tweets sent Saturday afternoon from the 60 Minutes and 48 Hours Twitter handles saying their accounts were compromised are correct, the network said. The tweets said the network is working with Twitter to investigate. On Saturday night both accounts were suspended and inaccessible.

With the erosion of newspapers, broadcasters have to step up and fill the vital role of watchdog in local communities, says CBS newsmanBob Schieffer, this year’s winner of the NAB Distinguished Service Award.

After 15 years at CBS News, Byron Pitts is joining ABC News as an anchor and chief national correspondent. ABC News President Ben Sherwood said in a staff memo that Pitts will be based in New York and will start in a few weeks.

This is the latest in a string of TV news personnel moves that have included Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo to CNN.

The award for television reporting went to correspondent Holly Williams and  cameraman Andrew Portch from CBS News for their work uncovering human rights abuses in China. The award for documentary television reporting was won by PBS’s Frontline correspondent Martin Smith and producer Michael Kirk for a four-part series on the origins of the global financial crisis and the continuing impact it is having around the world.

Rice, who served as secretary of state during President George W. Bush’s second term, made her debut on Face the Nation Sunday and will be included in inauguration coverage today.

The former Fox News and National Journal journalist is tapped to be the network’s chief White House correspondent.

CBS News has tapped former Fox News reporter Major Garrett as its chief White House correspondent. Garrett fills the role vacated by Norah O’Donnell, who became a host on CBS This Morning in the fall.

The president’s remark was not included in a Sept. 23 60 Minutes package or a subsequent one.

NBC’s Meet the Press accuses CBS of some trickery in the Nielsen ratings and in scheduling designed to make its Face the Nation seem more popular than it actually is. CBS detects the aroma of sour grapes. The incident is a vivid illustration of a newly competitive era on Sundays.

Showtime will debut 60 Minutes of Sports in November, featuring regular 60 Minutes correspondents as well as CBS Sports contributors like James Brown and Jim Nantz.

Scott Pelley, Bob Schieffer, Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell to lead CBS News’division-wide, multi-platform coverage of the 2012 Republican and Democratic national conventions.

The trial expansion of CBS’s Face The Nation to a full hour is now official, CBS News President David Rhodes announced yesterday. The Sunday magazine show had been expanded from half-hour to an hour in the spring for a 20-week trial.