Known for decades as Oprah’s best friend, the CBS anchor has become a celebrity in her own right. Even — especially — with the network’s men imploding all around her.
President Trump on Sunday blasted CBS’s 60 Minutes over an evening report about his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern border.
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48 Hours producer Susan Zirinsky has emerged as the front-runner to become the new executive producer of 60 Minutes at CBS News, sources say. Zirinsky is now the favorite to fill the shoes of veteran producer Jeff Fager, who was fired last month amid accusations of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment, according to insiders briefed on the situation. An announcement is expected as soon as next week
A network spokeswoman said Wednesday that reporter Errol Barnett happened to be on the same Washington to New York flight as presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner. CBS said he showed a press credential and attempted to ask a question about Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.
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NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News is adding Bianna Golodryga (go-low-DREEG-ah) as a fourth anchor to its morning show. The network announced Wednesday that Golodryga will join the team of […]
The internal bake-off to succeed the 60 Minutes chief is heating up, with Bill Owens and Susan Zirinsky eyed as candidates for the executive producer role.
Susan Zirinsky, often referred to by the first letter of her last name, has been at CBS News since 1972, but it’s what she might do in 2018 and going forward that could be infinitely more interesting. Some staffers at CBS News think she is a likely internal candidate to take the top 60 Minutes job, which has been vacant since CBS ousted former executive producer Jeff Fagerlast week
In its half-century on the air, 60 Minutes has operated independently of the CBS News organization. Many at the show worry what will happen if the network takes more control.
CBS Evening News revealed tonight the text that 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager sent to one of the news division’s female reporters that got him fired.
The longtime CBS News executive and 60 Minutes executive producer’s dismissal comes four days after CBS’s chief executive, Leslie Moonves, stepped down following numerous misconduct allegations.
The madness of the 1968 Democratic National Convention pushed conservatives’ distrust of ‘the establishment’ into overdrive.
The move follows publication of a New Yorker story that resulted in CBS hiring two outside law firms to investigate claims of sexual misconduct from several women spanning three decades at the company. While most of the article focused on CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, the article also contained allegations of inappropriate behavior by Fager.
An investigation into claims of harassment at CBS News by law firm Proskauer Rose, ongoing since March, is expected to be completed by the end of August, the division’s president, David Rhodes, told staffers Thursday.
Jeff Fager, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, stands accused of making unwanted advances and enabling harassment by others in positions of power at the newsmagazine, according to Ronan Farrow’s report in The New Yorker. Fager firmly denied the allegations. He seems determined to defend both his own reputation and the esteemed 60 Minutes brand. But the accusations of misconduct came as no surprise to 60 Minutes veterans, who had long suspected that stories might be coming.
Workplace culture at network news organizations has generally improved over the past several decades. But the vigilance of the #MeToo movement is taking no prisoners in a business that has long been a domain where men dominate the executive suites and female anchors, correspondents and even producers are often judged by their appearance.
By CBS’s count, that’s more than any other news organization. The venerable 60 Minutes accounted for 24 of the nominations with CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and Sunday Morning picking up the other seven.
After Twitter announced it would revise follower counts to cease counting fake and locked accounts toward total followers, how much were American networks docked? Here’s a list of the major U.S. broadcast and cable news networks’ Twitter followers before the purge, after the purge and the approximate percent loss.
For the first time since NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt’s May 2017 interview in the White House, a broadcast evening news anchor has scored a sit-down with President Donald Trump. CBS News on Saturday announced that anchor Jeff Glor interviewed the president in Scotland, at his resort, and will interview the president again on Wednesday, when he returns to Washington from his Monday summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
CBS News has formed a “working group” to address complaints and suggestions about the company’s workplace environment, according to an email sent to employees on Tuesday. The move comes as network management is still facing scrutiny following the ousting of Charlie Rose in November.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels says an unidentified man threatened her to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with Donald Trump. Daniels also told Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes that she had one encounter of consensual sex with the future president.
Caitlin Conant, who joined CBS News as executive director of communications at CBS News in Washington in 2016, has been named political director. She will start her new duties on April 9, and will continue to be based in Washington. Conant will report directly to Christopher Isham, CBS News VP and Washington bureau chief.
Last week, Anderson Cooper interviewed porn actress Stephanie Clifford, know as Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump. It will air on March 25.
CBS will air its 60 Minutes interview with porn star Stormy Daniels, CBS News President David Rhodes confirmed Tuesday. Rhodes, however, would not confirm when the interview with Daniels would air. Anderson Cooper last week interviewed the porn star who claims to have had an affair with President Trump.
CBS News President David Rhodes, who was honored on Thursday night with the Radio Television Digital News Foundation’s First Amendment Service Award, said that showing cellphone video of the high school shooting was made after discussing “who are we to decide that the truth shouldn’t be seen by a wider audience? If these images can be put in appropriate context by our reporters, aren’t they important for people to see? Our job as a news organization is to reveal these events, not conceal them.”
