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CBS News

Division of	CBS
Key people	Wendy McMahon (President)
Founded	September 18, 1927; 97 years ago (1927-09-18)
Headquarters	CBS Broadcast Center 530 West 57th Street New York City, New York 10019 U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Television broadcast programs	CBS News Roundup CBS News Mornings CBS Mornings CBS Evening News CBS Saturday Morning CBS Weekend News 48 Hours CBS News Sunday Morning Face the Nation 60 Minutes
Parent	CBS News and Stations
Official website	cbsnews.com
Streaming news network	cbsnews.com/live
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CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS. CBS News television programs include the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, news magazine programs CBS News 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 CBS News 24/7, a 24-hour digital news network.

Up until April 2021, the president and senior executive producer of CBS News was Susan Zirinsky, who assumed the role on March 1, 2019. Zirinsky, the first female president of the network's news division, was announced as the choice to replace David Rhodes on January 6, 2019. The announcement came amid news that Rhodes would 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 and Rhodes.

On April 15, 2021, CBS Television Stations and CBS News announced that their respective divisions would merge into one entity, to be named CBS News and Stations. It was also announced that Neeraj Khemlani (former Executive Vice President of Hearst Newspapers) and Wendy McMahon (former President of the ABC Owned Television Stations Group) were named presidents and co-heads. This transition was completed on May 3, 2021. On August 14, 2023, after Khemlani announced he was stepping down, CBS News named McMahon as its sole President and CEO. The next day on August 15, CBS News appointed Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, who supervised the Washington, D.C. bureau as its president. She stepped down in July 2024.

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.

In March 1933, White was named vice president and general manager in charge of news at CBS. As the first head of CBS News, he began to build an organization that soon established a legendary reputation.

In 1935, White hired Edward R. Murrow, and sent him to London in 1937 to run CBS Radio's European operation. White led a staff that would come to include Richard C. Hottelet, Charles Collingwood, William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Bill Downs, John Charles Daly, Joseph C. Harsch Cecil Brown, Elmer Davis, Quincy Howe, H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert Trout, and Lewis Shollenberger.

"CBS was getting its ducks in a row for the biggest news story in history, World War II", wrote radio historian John Dunning.

In 1940, William S. Paley recruited Edmund A. Chester from his position as Bureau Chief for Latin America at the Associated Press to coordinate the development of the international shortwave radio Network of the Americas (Cadena de las Américas) in 1942. Broadcasting in concert with the assistance of the Department of State, the Office for Inter-American Affairs chaired by Nelson Rockefeller and Voice of America as part of President Roosevelt's support for Pan-Americanism, this CBS radio network provided vital news and cultural programming throughout South America and Central America during the World War II era. Through its operations in twenty nations, it fostered benevolent diplomatic relations between the United States and other nations in the region while providing an alternative to Nazi propaganda.

Television

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 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell (journalist). 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 Federal Communications Commission (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. 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 1948, CBS Radio's seasoned journalist Edmund Chester emerged as the television network's new Director of News Special Events and Sports. Soon thereafter in 1949, he collaborated with one of CBS' original Murrow Boys named Larry LeSueur to produce the innovative news series United Nations In Action. Underwritten by the Ford Motor Company as a public service, these broadcasts endeavored to provide live coverage of the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly from its interim headquarters in Lake Success, New York. They proved to be highly successful and were honored with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Television News in 1949.

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. Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988.

From the 1990s until 2014, CBS News operated its own production unit CBS News Productions, to produce alternative programming for cable networks, and CBS EyeToo Productions (later CBS Eye Productions), a company that produced documentaries and nonfiction programs.

CBS News ran cable channel CBS Eye on People from 1997 to 2000 and Spanish-language channel CBS Telenoticias from 1996 to 1998.

In 2021, CBS News had set up its own production unit See It Now Studios, to be headed up by Susan Zirinsky.

In 2022, CBS News hired former Donald Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor. Mulvaney's hiring stirred controversy within the company due to his history of promoting Trump's false claims and attacking the press. CBS News co-president Neeraj Khemlani told CBS morning show staff: "If you look at some of the people that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms".

Broadcast history

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 p.m.–7:30 p.m. UTC (Eastern Time) on CBS.

CBS News television programs

Current news programs

• CBS News Roundup (May 29, 2024 – present)
• CBS News Flash (August 2021 – present) (canceled May 29, 2024?)
• CBS News Mornings (October 4, 1982 – present)
• CBS Mornings (September 7, 2021 – present)
• CBS Evening News (July 1, 1941 – present)
• CBS Saturday Morning (September 18, 2021 – present)
• CBS Weekend News (May 7, 2016 – present)
• 48 Hours (January 19, 1988 – present)
• 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 (2015–2024)
• CBS News Roundup (2024–present)

Morning news program history

• The Morning Show (1954–1956)
• Good Morning! with Will Rogers, Jr. (1956)
• Calendar (1961–1963)
• CBS Morning News (1963–1979; 1982–1987)
• In the News (1971–1986; 1997–1998)
• 30 Minutes (1978–1982)
• Morning (1979–1982)
• The Morning Program (1987)
• CBS This Morning (1987–1999; 2012–2021)
• The Early Show (1999–2012)
• CBS News Saturday Morning (1997–1999)
• The Saturday Early Show (1999–2012)
• CBS This Morning Saturday (2012–2021)
• CBS Mornings (2021–present)
• CBS Saturday Morning (2021–present)
• CBS News Sunday Morning (1979–present)

Evening/prime time news program history

• CBS Evening News (July 1, 1941 – 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)
• Who's Who (1977)
• Person to Person (1953–1961; 2012; 2022–present)

Other programs

• You Are There (1953–1973)
• Adventure (1953–1955)
• Youth Takes a Stand (1953–1954)
• Air Power (1956–1957)
• The Twentieth Century (1957–1970)
• CBS Reports (1959–2010)
• Of Black America (1968)
• In The News (1971–1986; 1997–1998)
• Razzmatazz (1977–1982) (co-production with Scholastic Magazines, Inc.)
• West 57th (1985–1989)
• America Tonight (1990–1991)
• 20th Century with Mike Wallace (1993–2001)
• Biography (1996–2005)
• Off Tenth (1997)
• Fast Forward (1997–1999)
• Scandal! (1998–2007)
• BET Nightly News (2001–2005) (co-production with BET Studios)
• TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews (2002–2004) (co-production with TV Land)
• TV Land Moguls (2004–2009) (co-production with TV Land)
• What's Hot! What's Cool! (2004)
• 365gay News (2005–2009) (co-production with Logo TV)
• Secret Lives of Women (2005–2009) (co-production with CBS Eye Productions and Kaos Entertainment)
• Commander Castle (2006)
• FutureCar (2007)
• Eco-Tech (2007) (co-production with Beanfield Productions and Silent Crow Arts)
• Brink (2008–2009) (co-production with CBS Eye Productions)
• 48 Hours on ID (2010–present)
• Juicy and Jaded (2012) (co-production with Euphoric Entertainment)
• 60 Minutes Sports (2013–2017) (co-production with Showtime Networks)
• Brooklyn DA (2013)
• Whistleblower (2018–2019) (co-production with CBS Studios)
• The FBI Declassified (2020–present)
• Boiling Point (2021–present) (co-production with BET Studios)
• Indivisible: Healing Hate (2022) (co-production with XG Productions)
• Gilshaine: Partner in Crime (2022) (co-production with Fremantle)
• 60 Minutes More (1996–1997)
• 60 Minutes+ (2021–2022)
• 11 Minutes (2022)

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 celebrated 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.

In late 1999, the news-gathering arms of CBS (Newspath), ABC (NewsOne) and Fox (NewsEdge) agreed to form a joint-venture footage sharing pool, known as Network News Service.

CBS News 24/7

CBS News 24/7 is a 24-hour streaming news channel which launched on November 4, 2014, as CBSN. At the time as CBSN, the channel features live news from 9 a.m. 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 online and on smart devices such as smart TV's Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and others. The channel is based at CBS's New York City headquarters.

The morning hours are typically anchored by Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers, with afternoons anchored by a rotating team including Lilia Luciano, Tony Dokoupil, Errol Barnett, Lana Zak and Elaine Quijano. Various correspondents in Washington D.C. anchor a late-afternoon political program titled, 'America Decides' and John Dickerson anchors "The Daily Report" Monday-Thursday.

News bureaus

Domestic bureaus

• New York City (Main Headquarters)
• Washington, D.C. (Evening News Headquarters/White House Bureau)
• Atlanta
• Chicago
• Dallas
• Denver
• Los Angeles (West Coast Bureau)
• Miami
• San Francisco
• Kennedy Space Center

Foreign bureaus

Europe

• London
• Rome
• Paris

Africa

• Johannesburg

Middle East

• Istanbul

Asia

• Kabul
• Beijing – Does not have a correspondent, just a producer-camera person.
• Tokyo, until April 3, 2024.
• Bangkok

Personnel

Current television hosts, anchors, correspondents, and reporters

New York (Main Headquarters)

• Enrique Acevedo – Correspondent, 60 Minutes+
• Sharyn Alfonsi – Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• Jim Axelrod – National Correspondent
• Errol Barnett – National Correspondent, Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Nikki Battiste – National Correspondent
• James Brown – Special Correspondent
• Nate Burleson – Co-Anchor, CBS Mornings
• Nancy Chen – Correspondent
• Adriana Diaz – Correspondent; Anchor, CBS Mornings Plus
• John Dickerson – Correspondent, 60 Minutes: Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Tony Dokoupil – Co-Anchor, CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus
• Jericka Duncan – Correspondent, CBS Mornings (2013–present); Anchor, CBS Weekend News
• Vladimir Duthiers – Correspondent; Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Anne-Marie Green – Anchor, CBS News Mornings (2013–present); Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Peter Greenberg – Travel Editor
• Dana Jacobson – Co-Anchor, CBS Saturday Morning
• Shanelle Kaul – Anchor, CBS News Roundup (Tuesday–Friday)
• Gayle King – Co-Anchor, CBS Mornings (2012–present)
• Dr. Jonathan LaPook – Chief Medical Correspondent
• Anthony Mason – Culture and National Correspondent
• Michelle Miller – Co-Anchor, CBS Saturday Morning
• Erin Moriarty – Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS News Sunday Morning
• Meg Oliver – Correspondent (2006–2009; 2015–present)
• Jane Pauley – Anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning (2016–present)
• Scott Pelley – Correspondent, 60 Minutes (1989–present)
• Matt Pieper – Anchor, CBS News Roundup (Monday)
• Elaine Quijano – Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Tanya Rivero – Anchor, CBS News 24/7
• Mo Rocca – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Richard Schlesinger – Correspondent, 48 Hours (1984–present)
• Tracy Smith – Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS News Sunday Morning (2000–present)
• Lesley Stahl – Co-editor, 60 Minutes (1972–present)
• Martha Teichner – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning (1977–present)
• Peter Van Sant – Correspondent, 48 Hours
• Bill Whitaker – Correspondent, 60 Minutes (1984–present) (Co-editor?)
• Lana Zak – Anchor, CBS News 24/7

Washington, D.C. (Evening News Headquarters/White House Bureau)

• Rita Braver – Senior Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning (1972–present)
• Margaret Brennan – Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent; Anchor, Face the Nation (2012–present)
• Nancy Cordes – Chief White House Correspondent (2007–present)
• Robert Costa – Chief Election and Campaign Correspondent (2022–present)
• Jan Crawford – Chief Legal Correspondent (2005–2006; 2009–present)
• Major Garrett – Chief Washington Correspondent (2011–present); Host, The Takeout (CBS News 24/7)
• Weijia Jiang – Senior White House Correspondent
• Nikole Killion – Congressional Correspondent
• Scott MacFarlane – Congressional Correspondent
• David Martin – National Security Correspondent (1983–present)
• Norah O'Donnell – Anchor, CBS Evening News (2019–present)
• Ed O'Keefe – Senior White House Correspondent
• Chip Reid – National Correspondent (left?)
• Christina Ruffini – Foreign Affairs/ Washington Correspondent (laid off?)
• Susan Spencer – Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS News Sunday Morning (1977–present)
• Cecilia Vega - Correspondent, 60 Minutes (2023–present)

Atlanta

• Mark Strassmann – Correspondent
• Dave Malkoff – Correspondent

Chicago

• Charlie DeMar – Reporter, CBS Chicago/WBBM-TV

Dallas

• Kris Van Cleave – Transportation Correspondent
• Omar Villafranca – Correspondent

Houston

• Janet Shamlian – Correspondent

Los Angeles (West Coast Bureau)

• Lee Cowan – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning (1996–2007; 2013–present)
• Carter Evans – Correspondent
• Lilia Luciano – Correspondent
• Jonathan Vigliotti – Correspondent
• Jamie Yuccas – Correspondent, KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV

Miami

• Manuel Bojorquez – Correspondent

London

• Charlie D'Agata – Senior Foreign Correspondent (2011–present)
• Ian Lee – Foreign Correspondent
• Elizabeth Palmer – Foreign Correspondent (2000–present)
• Mark Phillips – Senior Foreign Correspondent (1982–present)
• Roxana Zawahiri – Foreign Correspondent
• Imtiaz Tyab – Foreign Correspondent

Rome

• Seth Doane – Foreign Correspondent/ Correspondent, ''60 Minutes+''
• Chris Livesay – Foreign Correspondent

Johannesburg

• Debora Patta – Foreign Correspondent

Istanbul

• Holly Williams – Foreign Correspondent

Current contributors

• David Agus – Medical Contributor
• Serena Altschul – Contributing Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• David Becker – Election Law Contributor
• David Begnaud – Contributor, CBS Mornings
• Luke Burbank – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Alina Cho – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Anderson Cooper – Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• Lisa Damour – Psychologist Contributor, CBS Mornings
• Jeff Flake – Contributor
• Nancy Giles – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Steve Hartman – "On The Road" (CBS Evening News, CBS News Sunday Morning)
• Alexis Hoag – Legal Contributor
• Hua Hsu – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Rikki Klieman – Legal Analyst
• Conor Knighton – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Ted Koppel – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Ben Mankiewicz – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Wynton Marsalis – Cultural Correspondent
• David Pogue – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Lonnie Quinn – CBS Evening News Weather Contributor
• Mo Rocca – Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Faith Salie – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Kelefa Sanneh – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Bob Schieffer – Political Contributor
• Ben Stein – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning
• Jamie Wax – Contributor
• Jon Wertheim – Correspondent, 60 Minutes
• Mark Whitaker – Contributor, CBS News Sunday Morning

Current radio personalities

• Elaine Cobb – CBS News Radio Correspondent (based in Paris)
• Pam Coulter – CBS News Radio Correspondent
• Lucy Craft – CBS News Radio Correspondent (based in Tokyo)
• Steve Dorsey – CBS News Radio Executive Editor
• Pamela Falk – CBS News Radio Correspondent (based in New York)
• Wendy Gillette – CBS News Radio Correspondent
• Allison Keyes – Host, CBS News Weekend Roundup
• Stacy Lyn – CBS News Radio Anchor/ Reporter
• 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

• Debra Alfarone – Correspondent (based in Washington, D.C.)
• Danya Bacchus – Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
• Cristian Benavides – Correspondent (based in Miami)
• Natalie Brand – Correspondent (based in Washington, D.C.)
• Dina Demetrius – Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
• Michael George – Correspondent (based in New York)
• Diane King Hall – MoneyWatch Correspondent (based in New York)
• Tom Hanson – Correspondent (based in New York)
• Skyler Henry – Correspondent (based in Washington, D.C.)
• Nichelle Medina – Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
• Laura Podesta – Correspondent (based in New York)
• Anthony Pura – Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
• Elise Preston – Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)
• Femi Redwood – Correspondent (based in New York)
• Naomi Ruchim – Correspondent (based in New York)

Past correspondents

• Betsy Aaron
• Jim Acosta – now at CNN
• Jacqueline Adams
• Martin Agronsky +
• Craig Allen (now at WCBS (AM) in New York City and News 12 Networks)
• Bob Allison +
• David Andelman – now at CNN
• Bob Arnot (later at NBC News and MSNBC)
• Jennifer Ashton – now at ABC News
• Thalia Assuras
• Sharyl Attkisson
• José Díaz-Balart – (now at Telemundo and at NBC News)
• Roberta Baskin – (later at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.)
• Nelson Benton +
• Lowell Bergman – now retired
• Derrick Blakley (later at WBBM-TV)
• Regina Blakely
• Cynthia Bowers
• Betty Ann Bowser +
• Ed Bradley (1971–2006)+
• 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
• Julie Chen – host of Big Brother
• Sylvia Chase
• Connie Chung (retired)
• Lou Cioffi +
• Blair Clark +
• Mandy Clark
• Michele Clark +
• Jane Clayson (1999–2008; now at NPR)
• Ron Cochran +
• Charles Collingwood +
• Victoria Corderi – now at NBC News
• Katie Couric (2006–2011; later at ABC News; now at Yahoo News
• Kenneth Craig 2015–2020
• Walter Cronkite (1950–1980s)+
• Frank Currier +
• Don Dahler
• John Charles Daly +
• Faith Daniels
• Randy Daniels
• Priya David
• Morton Dean (retired)
• David Dick +
• Nancy Dickerson +
• Linda Douglass
• Harold Dow (1972–2010)+
• Bill Downs +
• Kimberly Dozier (now at The Daily Beast and CNN)
• Terry Drinkwater +
• Jed Duvall
• Douglas Edwards +
• Eric Engberg +
• Tom Fenton +
• Giselle Fernández
• John Ferrugia (now at Rocky Mountain PBS)
• Murray Fromson +
• Monica Gayle – now at WJBK (now retired)
• Phyllis George +
• Kendis Gibson – now at NBC News
• Michelle Gielan
• Christopher Glenn +
• Jeff Glor- laid off by CBS News
• Bernard Goldberg (now at Fox News and at HBO Sports)
• Julianna Goldman
• Bianna Golodryga (now at CNN)
• Fred Graham +
• Jeff Greenfield (now at PBS)
• Bryant Gumbel – now at HBO Sports
• Tony Guida – now at CUNY TV
• Bruce Hall
• Nanette Hansen
• John Hart (retired)
• Celia Hatton
• David Henderson
• George Herman +
• Catherine Herridge
• Erica Hill – now at HLN
• Sandy Hill
• 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 +
• 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)
• Steve Kroft (now retired)
• Robert Krulwich (now at NPR)
• Charles Kuralt +
• Bill Kurtis (later at WBBM-TV in Chicago now retired)
• John Laurence (later at ABC News)
• Mola Lenghi (now at ABC News)
• Bill Leonard +
• Larry LeSueur +
• Stan Levey +
• Lara Logan
• Bill Lynch
• Vicki Mabrey
• Sheila MacVicar
• Maureen Maher
• Paul Manning +
• Carol Marin – now at WMAQ-TV
• Chris Mavridis
• Lark McCarthy
• Melissa McDermott
• Mark McEwen
• Susan McGinnis
• Derek McGinty – later at WUSA
• Jim McKay (later at CBS Sports; and at ABC Sports)+
• Bob McKeown (now at CBC News)
• Bill McLaughlin +
• Marya McLaughlin +
• Russ Mitchell – now at WKYC
• DeMarco Morgan - now at ABC News
• Edward P. Morgan +
• Bruce Morton +
• Bill Moyers – now at PBS
• Roger Mudd +
• Edward R. Murrow +
• Reena Ninan
• 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 +
• Bill O'Reilly (later at Fox News; now at Newsmax)
• Charles Osgood +
• Ike Pappas +
• Jeff Pegues
• Barry Petersen
• Terry Phillips
• Robert Pierpoint +
• Randall Pinkston (1990–2013; later at Al Jazeera America)
• Byron Pitts (now at ABC News)
• Bill Plante (1964–2016) +
• George Polk +
• Ned Potter (later at ABC News)
• Dave Price – now at WNBC
• Jane Bryant Quinn
• Sally Quinn
• Bert Quint
• Ed Rabel
• Art Rascon – (1994–1998; later with KTRK-TV)
• Dan Rather – (1962–2006; now at AXS TV)
• Harry Reasoner (1956–1970; 1978–1991)+
• Trish Regan – most recently with Fox Business
• Paula Reid – now at CNN
• Dean Reynolds
• Frank Reynolds (1953–1965; later at ABC News)+
• Jane Robelot – now at WYFF-TV
• John Roberts (later at CNN; now at Fox News)
• Troy Roberts - (1993–2017; now at NBC News)
• Norman Robinson (now retired)
• Maggie Rodriguez (now with WFLA-TV in Tampa)
• Andy Rooney (1949–1970; 1973–2011)+
• Charlie Rose – co-anchor, CBS News Nightwatch, CBS This Morning and Person to Person (1984–1990; 2012–2017)
• Richard Roth, (1972–2010) based in Moscow, Rome, Los Angeles, New York and London
• Hughes Rudd +
• Morley Safer – co-editor, 60 Minutes (1964–2016)+
• 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 ABC News; then at CNN)+
• 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
• John Stehr – lead anchor at WTHR until retirement in 2018/Currently Mayor of Zionsville, Indiana.
• 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)
• Lowell Thomas +
• Richard Threlkeld +
• Dallas Townsend +
• Ben Tracy- laid off by CBS News
• Liz Trotta
• Robert Trout +
• Lem Tucker +
• Meredith Vieira – later at NBC News
• Mireya Villarreal (now at ABC News)
• Alex Wagner
• Richard Wagner
• Jane Wallace
• Kelly Wallace
• Mike Wallace +
• Clarissa Ward – now at CNN
• Anna Werner- laid off by CBS News
• John Blackstone
• Chris Wragge – now at WCBS-TV
• Nick Young (now retired)
• Steve Young
• Paula Zahn (later at CNN; now at Investigation Discovery)

+ – 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 (2019–2021)
• Neeraj Khemlani (2021–2023)
• Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews (2023–2024)
• Wendy McMahon (2021–present)

Reporting partnerships

In 2017, CBS News entered into a content-sharing agreement with BBC News, respectively replacing previous arrangements between 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".

Although they do not have an official partnership, CNN and CBS News share correspondents and contributors such as Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta.

In 2022, CBS News entered into a content-sharing partnership with The Weather Channel, where The Weather Channel meteorologists will appear on CBS News programs, and CBS News correspondents will appear during live coverage of weather events on The Weather Channel.

Controversies

Throughout the years, numerous conservative activists have accused CBS News of perpetuating a liberal bias in its news coverage.

See also

• ABC News
• NBC News
• CNN
• Fox News
• Noticias Univision
• Independent News Network
• Bloomberg News
• CBS News controversies and criticism

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