Anderson Cooper Set to Exit CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’
Anderson Cooper is poised to exit CBS News‘ “60 Minutes” after nearly 20 years of contributing to the program, according to a person familiar with his thinking, the latest blow to the…
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White House Threatened to Sue CBS Over ‘Evening News’ Interview With Trump
CBS News got more than it bargained for when it arranged for an interview earlier this week between President Donald Trump and anchor Tony Dokoupil on his still-nascent tenure on “CBS…
‘CBS Saturday Morning’ Taps Adriana Diaz, Kelly O’Grady as Co-Hosts
CBS News has picked its new two-person anchor team for “CBS Saturday Morning”: Adriana Diaz and Kelly O’Grady. On Saturday, Jan. 10, Diaz and O’Grady will debut as co-hosts of “CBS…
Bari Weiss Defends ’60 Minutes’ Decision in Staff Memo: ‘This May Seem Radical’ but ‘No Amount of Outrage’ Will ‘Derail Us’
What did CBS News management get staffers for Christmas? A memo doubling down on a controversial decision that has roiled the Paramount Skydance news unit and drawn torrents of criticism.…
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner
CBS News is increasingly looking like something out of a scripted drama by Aaron Sorkin. In shows like “The Newsroom” and “Sports Night,” the well-regarded writer sketched stories of…
Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on ‘Horrific Treatment’ of Detainees Sent by Trump White House to El Salvador Prison: ‘We Simply Need to Do More’
Bari Weiss, recently installed as CBS News‘ editor in chief, told staffers at the news outlet that she pulled a “60 Minutes” report on “horrific treatment” of detainees sent by the Trump…
CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees, Just Hours Before Airtime
About three hours before “60 Minutes” was set to air a program detailing “brutal and tortuous conditions” at a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported alleged…
Bari Weiss Made a ‘Political’ Decision to Kill ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on the ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees: Report
Bari Weiss, two months into her post as CBS News‘ editor-in-chief, was responsible for spiking a “60 Minutes” segment on the “brutal and tortuous conditions” at a prison in El Salvador…
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
During a Saturday-night town hall led by Bari Weiss, the recently named editor in chief of CBS News, most of Madison Avenue sought an off-ramp. The program featured an in-depth interview…
Matt Gutman Is First New On-Air Talent to Join CBS News in Bari Weiss Era
Matt Gutman, an ABC News veteran, will join CBS News in what is expected to be a prominent on air role, making him the first on-screen talent to join the Paramount Skydance news division…
CBS News Talent Chief Laurie Orlando is Latest Executive to Exit
Laurie Orlando, who has supervised talent recruitment and strategy at CBS News for nearly a decade, is leaving the Paramount Skydance operation — the latest of the news division’s senior…
Donald Trump Returns to ’60 Minutes’ for First Interview After Suing CBS News
President Trump will sit down for an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” his first since suing the network last year in a case that ended with its parent company Paramount Global agreeing to…
Gayle King Expected to Depart as ‘CBS Mornings’ Anchor Amid CBS News Overhaul (EXCLUSIVE)
Gayle King, who has been the face of CBS News‘ morning show for more than a decade, is expected to depart as an anchor of the morning program next year, according to four people with…
Bari Weiss Memo Sparks Confusion at CBS News: Some Producers Urge Staff to Respond After WGA Says to Wait (EXCLUSIVE)
To write or not to write? CBS News staffers were grappling with conflicting orders Monday, according to three people familiar with the matter, after some producers at the Paramount…
News Chiefs Pledge to Have More Dignity, Humanity in Vatican Summit
Even the Pope is worried about the news business. In an era when news programming is often seen as polarizing and outspoken hosts and anchors can serve to pull audiences apart, a group of…
Wendy McMahon Once Ran CBS News. Now She’s Turning to Indie Journalists
As an executive who once supervised CBS News, Wendy McMahon made frequent appearances in “Status,” the media-industry newsletter written by Oliver Darcy and published via the platform…
Mark Knoller, Longtime CBS News White House Correspondent, Dies at 73
Mark Knoller, the longtime CBS News radio correspondent and veteran political journalist, has died in Washington, D.C. He was 73. CBS News confirmed his death on Saturday, noting he had…
Kim Harvey Will Take Reins of ‘CBS Evening News’ as Executive Producer
Kim Harvey will oversee “CBS Evening News” as its next executive producer, a switch that could augur new changes for the venerable program after it lost viewers while experimenting with an…
‘CBS Evening News’ Executive Producer Guy Campanile to Return to ’60 Minutes’
Guy Campanile, a longtime “60 Minutes” producer who was tasked with managing a significant overhaul of the venerable “CBS Evening News,” is returning to his old stomping grounds. Campanile…
Tanya Simon to Lead CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’
CBS News named Tanya Simon the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” making her just the fourth executive to lead the program in its nearly 60 years on air and the first woman to do so.…
Shari Redstone’s Impossible Choice: She Can’t Save Both ‘60 Minutes’ and Paramount Global
Shari Redstone is no doubt familiar with “The Godfather, Part II.” It is, after all, one of the best-known films in the library of Paramount Global, the company she and her family control.…
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path For Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News, are set to begin mediation on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump that accuses “60 Minutes” of deceptively…
‘60 Minutes’ Rebukes Paramount On-Air Over Executive Producer’s Exit
In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its…
’60 Minutes’ Calls Out Paramount for Executive Producer’s Exit in Rare On-Air Rebuke
All seemed normal in the first 98% of Sunday’s broadcast of “60 Minutes” on CBS. But the remaining 2% may have shocked viewers. In the show’s “Last Minute” segment, correspondent Scott…