Lara Logan Talks ’60 Minutes’ On Kreiner’s Korner
The CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent will add moderator of the Sunday morning franchise beginning Feb. 25. She succeeds John Dickerson who moved to CBS This Morning last month to fill the seat formerly occupied by Charlie Rose.
CBS News exec Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews is getting a promotion, to executive vice president. She’ll continue to work directly with CBS News President David Rhodes overseeing day-to-day news operations.
CBS News correspondents are jockeying to replace John Dickerson as host of the Sunday morning show. CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes was first up in the informal competition to replace him. Next up is White House correspondent Margaret Brennan.
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Steve Capus is stepping down as executive producer of the CBS Evening News. The announcement came this morning in an internal email from CBS News President David Rhodes. Capus will be replaced by Mosheh Oinounou, who was among the producers who launched the network’s streaming service CBSN.
If a Winfrey candidacy moves beyond idle chatter, one of the leading figures on a CBS News show that prides itself on hard-nosed journalism, 60 Minutes, would have a conflict of interest on a major story.
CBS News named Face the Nation host John Dickerson as the new co-anchor of its CBS This Morning, replacing Charlie Rose. He will join Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell on the A.M. franchise and will no longer host his Washington-based Sunday morning political show..
Both Lester Holt and Jeff Glor braved the frigid temperatures Thursday to cover the bomb cyclone from outside venues in New York City — but ABC opted to keep David Muir in the studio.
CBS News said Wednesday that it has fired its political director, Steve Chaggaris, amid allegations of “inappropriate behavior” in his past. Chaggaris was a longtime CBS News employee. In his latest role Chaggaris, among other things, oversaw coverage of the Trump administration and occasionally appeared on CBS programs.
Norah O’Donnell has been working on a six-month investigation into sexual assault at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the first report on what was found aired today on CBS This Morning. CBS said more than a dozen current and former cadets at the Air Force believe their cases had been mishandled and that they faced retaliation.
CBS will be courting digital viewers by re-airing CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor, on its streaming channel CBSN at 7 p.m. Pacific time after it airs on the network’s TV affiliates across the country. The anchor will also do newsmaker interviews and his program will produce reports that will air everyday on CBSN, whether they make it onto his 30 minute broadcast or not.
PHOENIX (AP) — Charlie Rose, who was fired this week by CBS News and whose program was canceled by PBS in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women, […]
When CBS News President David Rhodes announced Jeff Glor as the next CBS Evening News anchor in October, he said Glor “represents the best journalistic values and traditions that will carry the CBS Evening News into a digital future.”
A day after he was fired from CBS This Morning, the show reported that three women at CBS have reported misconduct by Rose. The network said one didn’t want details of her accusations made public, and all three requested anonymity.
Charlie Rose is the latest public figure to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, with CBS News dismissing him today following a Washington Post report Monday citing accusations by eight women. The network’s news president, David Rhodes, said there is nothing more important than assuring a safe, professional workplace.
The network on Wednesday appointed the 42-year-old Glor to a job that has been held by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Katie Couric and, most recently, Scott Pelley.
In her 60 Minutes debut as a special correspondent, she talked to 14 Americans about how they feel about the president — the results were decidedly mixed.
It’s a testament to the power of the Sunday-night newsmagazine that it seeks to absorb one of television’s biggest stars into its fabric instead of the other way around. One of the medium’s best-known celebrity interviewers will do some, but will largely work against type in reporting stories, said Jeff Fager, the show’s executive producer.
In his new book Fifty Years of 60 Minutes, Jeff Fager reports on the rise of CBS’s flagship newsmagazine and the role the producer played in making America’s must-watch TV news program a dynasty.
By the time even news junkies get to Sunday morning, there can be a plaintive need for a mental health break. There may be physiological limits on how many times they can watch Sen. Lindsey Graham, among others in our public life, in a given week. But the three stalwarts of broadcast television — ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation and NBC’s Meet the Press — endure amid the obvious media fragmentation and may have cause for a certain self-congratulation amid via a vaguely surprising Harvard study.
In the fall of 2014, CBS launched CBSN, a 24-hour streaming news channel available for free online and across all manner of smartphones, tablets and connected TV screens. Nearly three years in, CBSN is profitable. Going forward, the plan is to “take some of the success and reinvest it” into the business, according to Christy Tanner, SVP-GM of CBS News Digital for CBS Interactive. This includes putting money and resources toward new content, distribution partnerships and editorial products, which will often involve working in tandem with other departments in the broader CBS portfolio — a testament to how much CBS higher-ups value CBSN.
Before Walter Cronkite (or TV news of any kind), there was Douglas Edwards. Last night, the CBS Evening News ended with a segment celebrating the pioneering TV news career of Edwards who would have turned 100 today. His and TV’s first newscast aired in 1948, It was, he would say, put together “with spit, bailing wire and high spirits.” Edwards gave way to Cronkite in 1962 and died in 1990.
In late May, it came out that after six years as anchor of the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley would be vacating the chair. In an employee town hall Thursday, CBS News President David Rhodes was asked if he thinks the rocky transition has hurt company morale. “I absolutely do. And I’m concerned about it,” he said, according to someone who viewed the event.
CBS News said it would launch a new, limited-run primetime TV series based on reports prepared in the style of its streaming-video news outlet, CBSN. CBSN: On Assignment will air on four consecutive Monday evenings starting July 31 at 10 p.m. ET, and attempt to bring a more on-the-ground perspective to an audience more accustomed to CBS News mainstays like 48 Hours and 60 Minutes.
Marion Goldin, one of the most respected and prolific producers at CBS’s flagship newsmagazine, 60 Minutes, died on June 15 at her home in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 76. Goldin, after beginning her career in television news during the tumultuous 1960s, began working with the veteran journalist Mike Wallace in 1972, forming a successful if combative partnership that would last 15 years.
The perfect illustration of the power of broadcast news when it is operating at peak efficiency — and what most will remember as the image of Wednesday’s congressional shooting — came within about an hour of the first call to police, when CBS News aired video footage of a wounded man on a stretcher being wheeled by first-responders to a medical evacuation helicopter that had just landed on the baseball field. With armed police escorting him, the man, Rep. Steve Scalise, was then loaded into the helicopter and flown to a hospital to receive further medical assistance.
The three major broadcast networks will send their evening news anchors to Washington to host their nightly news shows closer to the location of Wednesday morning’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice.
Scott Pelley is back from his reporting trip for 60 Minutes and will finish up his anchor and managing editor role at CBS Evening News a week from Friday.
ABC and CBS will break into their daytime programming on Thursday to cover James Comey’s appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee. NBC News has yet to say whether it will carry the hearing live.The decision to break into regularly scheduled programming for a congressional hearing is unusual for broadcasters, indicating the incredibly high level of public interest in what Comey may or may not say regarding his interactions with President Donald Trump.
