CBS News
CBS News
| Division of | CBS Broadcasting |
|---|---|
| Key people | Joseph Ianniello(Acting President and CEO, CBS Corporation) Susan Zirinsky(President of CBS News) |
| Founded | September 18, 1927 |
| Headquarters | CBS Broadcast Center 530 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Broadcast programs | CBS Evening News CBS This Morning 48 Hours 60 Minutes CBS News Sunday Morning Face the Nation CBS News Radio |
| Parent | CBS Corporation |
| Website | cbsnews.com [20] |
| Streaming News Network | CBSN [21] |
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, news magazine programs CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation. CBS News Radio produces hourly newscasts for hundreds of radio stations, and also oversees CBS News podcasts like The Takeout Podcast. CBS News also operates the 24-hour digital news network CBSN.
The president and senior executive producer of CBS News is Susan Zirinsky, who assumed the role on March 1, 2019.[1] Zirinsky, the first female president of the network's news division,[2][3] was announced as the choice to replace David Rhodes on January 6, 2019.[4][5] The announcement came during news that Rhodes "will step down as president of CBS News amid falling ratings and the fallout from revelations from an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against CBS News figures, Rhodes and the CBS network said."[6]
| Division of | CBS Broadcasting |
|---|---|
| Key people | Joseph Ianniello(Acting President and CEO, CBS Corporation) Susan Zirinsky(President of CBS News) |
| Founded | September 18, 1927 |
| Headquarters | CBS Broadcast Center 530 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Broadcast programs | CBS Evening News CBS This Morning 48 Hours 60 Minutes CBS News Sunday Morning Face the Nation CBS News Radio |
| Parent | CBS Corporation |
| Website | cbsnews.com [20] |
| Streaming News Network | CBSN [21] |
History
In 1929, the Columbia Broadcasting System began making regular radio news broadcasts—five-minute summaries taken from reports from the United Press, one of the three wire services that supplied newspapers with national and international news. In December 1930 CBS chief William S. Paley hired journalist Paul W. White away from United Press as CBS's news editor. Paley put the radio network's news operation at the same level as entertainment, and authorized White to interrupt programming if events warranted. Along with other networks, CBS chafed at the breaking news embargo imposed upon radio by the wire services, which prevented them from using bulletins until they first appeared in print. CBS disregarded an embargo when it broke the story of the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932, using live on-the-air reporting. Radio networks scooped print outlets with news of the 1932 presidential election.[7] []
In 1935, White hired Edward R. Murrow, and sent him to London in 1937 to run CBS Radio's European operation.[7] [] White led a staff that would come to include Charles Collingwood, William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid,[9] Bill Downs, John Charles Daly, Joseph C. Harsch[7] [] Cecil Brown, Elmer Davis, Quincy Howe, H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert Trout,[10] and Lewis Shollenberger.[11]
Television
Douglas Edwards on the CBS news set in 1952.
Upon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, now WCBS-TV) in 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell. Most of the newscasts featured Hubbell reading a script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph. When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was usually off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45 p.m. with an extensive special report. The national emergency even broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come down to the Grand Central studios during the evening and give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes. But that special broadcast pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the FCC, the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably the most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time."
Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of the war. In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) sharply cut back its live program schedule and the newscasts were canceled, since the station temporarily suspended studio operations, resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the service or were redeployed to war related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts.
In May 1944, as the war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored by Ned Calmer, and then by Everett Holles.[12] After the war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule – whose call letters were changed to WCBS-TV in 1946 – first anchored by Milo Boulton, and later by Douglas Edwards. On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring CBS Television News, a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor (the nightly Lowell Thomas NBC radio network newscast was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT—now WNBC—for a time in the early 1940s and the previously mentioned Richard Hubbell, Ned Calmer, Everett Holles and Milo Boulton on WCBW in the early and mid-1940s, but these were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City). NBC's offering at the time, NBC Television Newsreel (which premiered in February 1948), was simply film footage with voice narration.
In 1950, the name of the nightly newscast was changed to Douglas Edwards with the News, and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast." The broadcast was renamed the CBS Evening News when Walter Cronkite replaced Edwards in 1962.[13] Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988.
Broadcast history
CBS News Bulletin covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The information on programs listed in this section came directly from CBS News in interviews with the Vice President of Communications and NewsWatch Dallas.
According to the CBS News Library and source Sandy Genelius (Vice President, CBS News Communications), the "CBS Evening News" was the program title for both Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts. The program title for the Sunday late night news beginning in 1963 was the "CBS Sunday Night News". These titles were also seen on the intro slide of the program's opening. The program airs on Saturday, and Sunday nights at 7:00 - 7:30PM UTC (Eastern Time) on CBS.
CBS News television programs
Current news programs
CBS Overnight News (September 21, 2015 – present)
CBS Morning News (October 4, 1982 – present)
CBS This Morning (November 30, 1987 – October 29, 1999; January 9, 2012 – present)
CBS Evening News (September 2, 1963 – present)
CBS This Morning Saturday (January 14, 2012 – present)
CBS Weekend News (May 7, 2016 – present)
48 Hours (January 19, 1988 – present)[14]
CBS News Sunday Morning (January 28, 1979 – present)
Face the Nation (November 7, 1954 – present)
60 Minutes (September 24, 1968 – present)
Early morning news program history
CBS News Nightwatch (1982–1992)
CBS Morning News (1982–present)
CBS Up to the Minute (1992–2015)
CBS Overnight News (2015–present)
Morning news program history
CBS Morning News (1963–1979)
The Morning Program (1987)
CBS This Morning (1987–1999; 2012–present)
The Early Show (1999–2012)
CBS News Saturday Morning (1997–1999)
The Saturday Early Show (1999–2012)
CBS Sunday Morning (1979–present)
Evening/prime time news program history
CBS Evening News (September 2, 1963 – present)
West 57th (Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) (August 13, 1985 – September 9, 1989)
48 Hours (January 19, 1988–present)
60 Minutes II (January 13, 1999 – September 2, 2005)
America Tonight (Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Lesley Stahl, Robert Krulwich, Edie Magnus) (October 1, 1990 – 1991)
Street Stories (Ed Bradley; January 9, 1992 – June 10, 1993)
Eye to Eye with Connie Chung (June 17, 1993 – May 25, 1995)
Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (October 1, 1997 – 1998)
CBS Newsbreak (1976-2009)
Person to Person
CBS News Radio
The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is CBS News Radio. The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS and traced its roots to the company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the decade that followed. The list of CBS News correspondents (below) includes those reporting on CBS News Radio.
CBS News Radio produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television, the CBS World News Roundup, which first aired in 1938 and celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2018. The World News Roundup airs twice every weekday: a morning edition is anchored by Steve Kathan and produced by Paul Farry, while a "late edition" is anchored by Dave Barrett and produced by James Hutton. The evening Roundup, previously known as The World Tonight, has aired in its current form since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards, Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn (Glenn also anchored the morning Roundup before his death in 2006).
The CBS Radio Network provides newscasts at the top of the hour, regular updates at :31 minutes past the hour, the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates (including WCBS and KYW) at :35 minutes past the hour, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at :20 and :50 minutes past the hour. Skyview Networks handles the distribution.
CBS Newspath
CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news-gathering service (similar to CNN Newsource). Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. The service has a team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates, and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. CBS Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally obtained footage that may be of national interest. It replaced a similar service, CBS News NewsNet.
Network News Service (NNS) is a pioneering news organization formed by ABC NewsOne, CBS Newspath and Fox NewsEdge. Launched in June 2000, its subscriber list already includes more than 500 ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates throughout the United States. The three news distributors created NNS to cost-effectively pool resources for developing and delivering second tier news stories and b-roll footage. The goal was to realize cost savings in the creation and distribution of these news images, while news organizations and member television stations continued to independently develop and deliver their own signature coverage of top news stories.
CBSN
CBSN is a 24-hour streaming news channel available from the CBS News website and launched on November, 4th 2014.[15] The channel feature live news from 9 am to midnight on weekdays. The channel makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each week. It is a first for a U.S. 24-hour news channel to forgo cable and be available exclusively only on line and on smart devices such as smart TV's Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and others.[16] The Channel is based at CBS's New York City headquarters.[17]
News bureaus
Domestic bureaus
New York, New York (Headquarters)
Washington, D.C.
Atlanta, Georgia
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Denver, Colorado
Los Angeles, California
Miami, Florida
San Francisco, California
Foreign bureaus
Europe London, United Kingdom Rome, Italy
Africa Johannesburg, South Africa
Middle East Istanbul, Turkey
Asia Kabul, Afghanistan Beijing, China Tokyo, Japan
Personnel
Current television correspondents
New York (Headquarters)
Sharyn Alfonsi - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Serena Altschul - Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning (2003–present)
Jim Axelrod - National Correspondent
Nikki Battiste - Correspondent
David Begnaud - Correspondent, CBS This Morning
James Brown - Special Correspondent
Don Dahler - Correspondent (2013–present)
John Dickerson - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Tony Dokoupil - Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning
Jericka Duncan - Correspondent, CBS This Morning (2013–present)
Vladimir Duthiers - Correspondent; Anchor, CBSN
Bill Geist - Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning
Jeff Glor - Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning Saturday
Anne-Marie Green - Anchor, CBS Morning News (2013–present); Anchor, CBSN
Peter Greenberg - Travel Editor
Dana Jacobson - Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning Saturday
Armen Keteyian - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Gayle King - Co-anchor, CBS This Morning (2012–present)
Steve Kroft - Co-editor, 60 Minutes (1980–present)
Maureen Maher - Correspondent, 48 Hours (1997–present)
Wynton Marsalis - Cultural Correspondent
Anthony Mason - Co-anchor, CBS This Morning
Michelle Miller - Co-anchor, CBS This Morning Saturday
Erin Moriarty - Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS Sunday Morning
Reena Ninan - Anchor, CBS Weekend News (Saturday); Anchor, CBSN
Norah O'Donnell - Anchor, CBS Evening News (2019–present)
Jane Pauley - Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning (2016–present)
Scott Pelley - Correspondent, 60 Minutes (1989–present)
Elaine Quijano - Anchor, CBS Weekend News (Sunday) (2010–present); Anchor, CBSN
Troy Roberts - Correspondent, 48 Hours
Mo Rocca - Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning
Richard Schlesinger - Correspondent, 48 Hours (1984–present)
Tracy Smith - Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS Sunday Morning (2000–present)
Lesley Stahl - Co-editor, 60 Minutes (1972–present)
Peter Van Sant - Correspondent, 48 Hours
Anna Werner - Consumer and Investigative Correspondent, CBS This Morning
Bill Whitaker - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Washington, D.C.
Errol Barnett - Correspondent
Rita Braver - Senior Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning (1972–present)
Margaret Brennan - State Department Correspondent; Anchor, Face the Nation (2012–present)
Nancy Cordes - Chief Congressional Correspondent (2007–present)
Jan Crawford - Chief Legal Correspondent (2005-2006; 2009–present)
Major Garrett - Chief White House Correspondent (2011–present); Host, The Takeout (CBSN)
Julianna Goldman - Correspondent
Weijia Jiang - White House Correspondent
David Martin - National Security Correspondent (1983–present)
Ed O'Keefe - Political Correspondent
Jeff Pegues - Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent (2013–present)
Chip Reid - National Correspondent
Paula Reid - White House Correspondent (2019–present)
Susan Spencer - Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS Sunday Morning (1977–present)
Ben Tracy - White House Correspondent (2019–present)
Kris Van Cleave - Transportation Correspondent
Atlanta
Mark Strassmann - Correspondent
Chicago
Adrianna Diaz - National Correspondent
Dean Reynolds - Correspondent (2007–present)
Dallas
Omar Villafranca - Correspondent
Mireya Villarreal - Correspondent
Denver
Barry Petersen - Correspondent (1978–present)
Los Angeles
Lee Cowan - National Correspondent (1996-2007; 2013–present)
Carter Evans - Correspondent
Jonathan Vigliotti - Correspondent
Jamie Yuccas - Correspondent
Miami
Manuel Bojorquez - Correspondent
San Francisco
John Blackstone - Correspondent
London
Charlie D'Agata - Foreign Correspondent
Elizabeth Palmer - Foreign Correspondent (2000–present)
Mark Phillips - Senior Foreign Correspondent (1982–present)
Rome
Seth Doane - Foreign Correspondent
Johannesburg
Debora Patta - Foreign Correspondent
Istanbul
Holly Williams - Foreign Correspondent
Beijing
Current contributors
Anderson Cooper - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Jeff Flake - Contributor
Nancy Giles - Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning (based in New York)
Sanjay Gupta - Medical Correspondent (based in Atlanta); also at CNN
Steve Hartman - "On The Road" Correspondent, CBS Evening News (based in New York)
Bob Schieffer - Political Contributor
Ben Stein - Contributor, CBS Sunday Morning
Oprah Winfrey - Correspondent, 60 Minutes
Current radio correspondents
Pam Coulter - CBS News Radio Correspondent
Steve Dorsey - CBS News Radio Executive Editor; Host, CBS News Weekend Roundup
Cami McCormick - CBS News Radio National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Steven Portnoy - CBS News Radio White House Correspondent
Bill Rehkopf - CBS News Radio Correspondent
Current Newspath correspondents
Kenneth Craig - Correspondent (based in New York)
Hena Doba - Correspondent (based in New York)
Diane King Hall - MoneyWatch Correspondent
Mola Lenghi - Correspondent (based in Washington, DC)
Chris Martinez - Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
Danielle Nottingham - Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
Meg Oliver - Correspondent (based in New York)
Laura Podesta - Correspondent (based in New York)
Roxana Saberi - Correspondent (based in London)
Past correspondents
Betsy Aaron
Jim Acosta - now at CNN
Martin Agronsky +
Ron Allen - now at NBC News
Bob Allison
David Andelman - now at CNN
Bob Arnot (later at NBC News and MSNBC)
Lowell Bergman - now at PBS
Dr. Jennifer Ashton - now at ABC News
Thalia Assuras
Jose Diaz-Balart - (now at Telemundo and at NBC News)
Roberta Baskin - (later at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.)
Nelson Benton +
Regina Blakely
Ed Bradley +
Ray Brady +
Marvin Breckinridge Patterson +
Heywood Hale Broun +
Cecil Brown +
Terrell Brown (now at WLS-TV'; in Chicago)
Mika Brzezinski - now at MSNBC
Winston Burdett +
Ned Calmer +
Gretchen Carlson - later at Fox News Channel
Julie Chen - host of Big Brother**
Sylvia Chase
Connie Chung (retired)
Lou Cioffi +
Blair Clark +
Mandy Clark
Michele Clark
Jane Clayson (now at NPR)
Ron Cochran +
Charles Collingwood +
Victoria Corderi - now at NBC News
Katie Couric
Walter Cronkite +
Frank Currier
John Charles Daly +
Randy Daniels
Morton Dean (retired)
David Dick +
Nancy Dickerson +
Linda Douglass
Harold Dow +
Bill Downs +
Kimberly Dozier (now at The Daily Beast and at CNN)
Jed Duvall
Terry Drinkwater +
Douglas Edwards +
Eric Engberg +
Tom Fenton (now retired)
Giselle Fernández
John Ferrugia (now at Rocky Mountain PBS)
Murray Fromson +
Monica Gayle - now at WJBK
Kendis Gibson - now at ABC News
Michelle Gielan
Christopher Glenn +
Bernard Goldberg (now at Fox News Channel and at HBO Sports)
Fred Graham
Jeff Greenfield (now at PBS)
Bianna Golodryga
Bryant Gumbel - now at HBO Sports
Tony Guida - now at CUNY TV
Bruce Hall
John Hart (retired)
David Henderson
George Herman +
Erica Hill - now at HLN
Don Hollenbeck +
Richard C. Hottelet +
Allan Jackson +
Rebecca Jarvis - now at ABC News
Whit Johnson - now at ABC News
Phil Jones
Gordon Joseloff
Bernard Kalb (retired)
Marvin Kalb (later at NBC News; now retired)
Peter Kalischer +
H.V. Kaltenborn +
Hattie Kauffman
Frank Kearns +
Alexander Kendrick +
Dana King (later at KPIX-TV in San Francisco; now retired)
Jeffrey Kofman (later at ABC News; now retired)
Robert Krulwich (now at NPR)
Charles Kuralt +
Bill Kurtis (later at WBBM-TV in Chicagonow retired)
Bill Leonard +
Larry LeSueur +
Stan Levey
Lara Logan
Bill Lynch
Vicki Mabrey (now at ABC News)
Sheila MacVicar
Paul Manning +
Carol Marin - now at WMAQ
Chris Mavridis
Melissa McDermott
Mark McEwen
Derek McGinty - later at WUSA
Bob McKeown (now at CBC News)
Bill McLaughlin
Marya McLaughlin +
Jim McManus +
Russ Mitchell - now at WKYC
Edward P. Morgan +
Bruce Morton +
Bill Moyers - now at PBS
Roger Mudd (retired)
Edward R. Murrow +
Paul K. Niven Jr. +
Betty Nguyen - (later at NBC News and MSNBC; now at WPIX in New York City)
Deborah Norville - now weekday anchor, Inside Edition
Stuart Novins +
Meg Oliver (2006-2009)
Bill O'Reilly (later at Fox News Channel; now at Newsy)
Ike Pappas +
Terry Phillips
Robert Pierpoint +
Randall Pinkston
Byron Pitts now at ABC News
George Polk +
Dave Price - now at WNBC
Jane Bryant Quinn
Sally Quinn
Ed Rabel
Dan Rather - (1962-2006; now at AXS TV)
Harry Reasoner +
Trish Regan - now at Fox Business Network
Frank Reynolds + (later at ABC News)
Jane Robelot - now at WYFF-TV
John Roberts (later at CNN; now at Fox News Channel)
Norman Robinson (now retired)
Maggie Rodriguez
Andy Rooney +
Charlie Rose - co-anchor, CBS This Morning and Person to Person (1984-1990; 2012–2017)
Hughes Rudd +
Morley Safer - co-editor, 60 Minutes +
Marlene Sanders +
Diane Sawyer - now at ABC News
Forrest Sawyer - (later at ABC News and then at MSNBC)
Stephen Schiff
David Schoenbrun +
Daniel Schorr +
David Schoumacher (later at ABC News; then at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.; now retired)
Barry Serafin - (later at ABC News; now retired)
Don Hewitt +
Eric Sevareid +
Bill Shadel +
Bernard Shaw (later at CNN; now retired)
John Sheahan
Gary Shepard
William L. Shirer +
Lewis Shollenberger+
Maria Shriver - now at NBC News
Daniel Sieberg
Bob Simon +
Bob Sirott
Harry Smith - now at NBC News
Howard K. Smith +
Terence Smith (now retired)
Joan Snyder +
Bianca Solorzano
Hari Sreenivasan - now weekend anchor, PBS Newshour
Mike Stanley
John Stehr - now main anchor at WTHR
Alison Stewart (now at PBS)
Hannah Storm - now at ESPN and ESPN on ABC
Bill Stout +
Kathleen Sullivan (later at E! News)
Rene Syler (now at Aspire TV)
Lowell Thomas +
Richard Threlkeld +
Dallas Townsend +
Liz Trotta
Robert Trout +
Lem Tucker +
Meredith Vieira - later at NBC News
Jane Wallace
Kelly Wallace - now at CNN
Mike Wallace +
Clarissa Ward - now at CNN
Chris Wragge - now at WCBS
Nick Young (now retired)
Paula Zahn (later at CNN; now at Investigation Discovery)
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- deceased
Presidents of CBS News
Richard S. Salant (1961–1964)
Fred W. Friendly (1964–1966)
Richard S. Salant (1966–1979)
Bill Leonard (1979–1982)
Van Gordon Sauter (1982–1983)
Ed Joyce (1983–1986)
Van Gordon Sauter (1986)
Howard Stringer (1986–1988)
David W. Burke (1988–1990)
Eric Ober (1990–1996)
Andrew Heyward (1996–2005)
Sean McManus (2005–2011)
David Rhodes (2011–2019)
Susan Zirinsky (2019– )
Reporting Partnerships
In 2017, CBS News entered into a content-sharing agreement with BBC News, respectively replacing similar arrangements with the BBC and ABC News, and CBS and Sky News (which was partially controlled by 21st Century Fox until 2018 when ownership was then transferred to Comcast). The partnership includes the ability to share resources, footage, and reports, and conduct "efficient planning of news gathering resources to increase the content of each broadcaster's coverage of world events". And although they don't have an official partnership, CNN and CBS News share correspondents and contributors such as Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta.[18]
See also
CNN
Fox News
Noticias Univision
Independent News Network