Margaret Brennan today was named a correspondent for CBS News. Principally assigned to the State Department, Brennan will also serve as a general assignment correspondent based in Washington. Her appointment […]
A subtle turn toward new, younger contributors and an increase in ratings have gratified executives at the venerable CBS newsmagazine. In the season that started in September, viewership among 25- to 54-year-olds, the demographic that CBS hopes to reach, is up about 6%, to an average 3.5 Nielsen rating, from a 3.3. That increase has come even as the show’s total viewer rating has remained about the same.
After an unsuccessful flirtation with Katie Couric’s lighter style and a rather conventional morning-news show, CBS News is trying to differentiate itself with hard news.
CBS News Legend Mike Wallace Dies At 93
Until he was slowed by heart surgery as he neared his 90th birthday in 2008, Wallace continued making news, doing 60 Minutes interviews with such subjects as Jack Kevorkian and Roger Clemens. He had promised to still do occasional reports when he announced his retirement as a regular correspondent in March 2006. He died Saturday night.
Exclusives
Richard Threlkeld, a former CBS News correspondent, was killed in a car crash Friday morning on Long Island. He was 74. morning. Threlkeld worked for CBS News for more than 25 years.
CBS News has launched Face to Face, a weekly webcast featuring original Face the Nation content, expanding the leading public affairs program’s online footprint. Each week, Face to Face will […]
Russ Mitchell Leaving CBS For WKYC
The longtime CBS journalist returns to local news as the anchor and managing editor at Gannett’s Cleveland NBC affiliate. He will begin anchoring the station’s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on Jan. 16, 2012.
NEW YORK (AP) — Musician and educator Wynton Marsalis has been named as cultural correspondent for CBS News. The network said Thursday that Marsalis will report on a range of […]
Charlie Rose and Lara Logan will host an interview program modeled after the groundbreaking Edward R. Murrow series. It debuts Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at 8 p.m.
With reports circling that Ryan Seacrest may join Today, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager says he would “love” to have Lauer on his CBS broadcast.
Anchor Bob Schieffer announced on his half-hour Sunday political talk show that his broadcast will increase to an hour starting in April, putting it on equal footing with rivals Meet the Press on NBC and This Week on ABC.
The two organizations sign a 10-year contract continuing the sharing of news materials and programs, newsgathering and transmission facilities as well as news bureaus in Tokyo and New York.
Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill will lead a new version of the perennially third-rated morning show that will also get a new name when it premieres Jan. 9.
The popular 60 Minutes commentator died Friday night, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary. Rooney never recovered from complications following an Oct. 26 surgery.
CBS said the 92-year-old writer’s condition was stable after developing serious complications following surgery.
After a reboot of the evening newscast under Scott Pelley, CBS News President David Rhodes and his boss, CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager, are devoting much of their attention to the network’s cellar-dwelling morning show.
Amanda Knox is the next biggest news interview get since a Florida jury sprung Casey Anthony. ABC, NBC and CBS each have a rep in Italy hoping to get a shot at the first sitdown with Knox, whose 2009 conviction for killing a roommate was overturned Monday.
CBS News boss Jeff Fager is angry after losing some talent to rival NBC as the Peacock network gears up to launch a primetime news magazine this fall. The magazine, Rock Center With Brian Williams — run by former 60 Minutes executive producer Rome Hartman — is acting as a honey pot for producers and associate producers looking to join the first meaty primetime news show to launch on a broadcast network in years, sources said.
A fixture on the popular news program since 1978, Andy Rooney will announce on this Sunday’s show that it will be his last regular appearance. His farewell will be preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career in an interview with Morley Safer.
In a speech and interview at the RTDNA/SPJ conference in New Orleans today, Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer for 60 Minutes, said there isn’t enough investigative reporting because it’s expensive and time consuming. “We succeed at 60 Minutes by doing it and by caring about it and by working hard to make it as interesting as we can because there is a place for it and I think there’s a hunger for it out there.”
MAUI, Hawaii (AP) — Lane Venardos, a former CBS News vice president who won numerous awards during his 30 years with the network, has died. He was 67. Venardos died […]
CBS News debuted a new promo on the Early Show this morning that asks: “What is original reporting?” and features short clips of the CBS news team — including Evening News anchor Scott Pelley and chief White House correspondent Norah O’Donnell — before flashing to archival clips of 60 Minutes.
Running Toward Disaster: ‘It’s What We Do’
WMAQ Chicago’s Carol Marin describes what Sept. 11, 2001, was like for her as a CBS reporter at Ground Zero in New York. When she saw the World Trade Center attack on television, she bolted from CBS News headquarters, hopped a taxi to get to the scene, figuring she could find a crew later. She was lucky she got out alive.
This week, TVNewsCheck will be presenting a series a stories on how broadcasters responded to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 and shocked the nation, how they were affected and how they plan to commemorate the 10th anniversary. The series begins today with the personal account of Carol Marin, then of CBS News, one of the many broadcast journalists who instinctively went to where the news was happening despite the obvious dangers. See below.
Fager: CBS Lost Viewers In Couric Years
CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said today that he hopes viewers who tuned out from the CBS Evening News during the Katie Couric years are being lured back by Scott Pelley.
Bloomberg’s head of newsgathering, Tim Gaughan, is leaving the cable channel to join CBS News as director of digital newsgathering and senior producer, special events. Gaughan will start at CBS News Aug. 1.
Five months into the tenure of CBS News chairman Jeff Fager and CBS News president David Rhodes, there are more staff changes on West 57th Street … and beyond.
