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CBS News

Division of	CBS Broadcasting
Key people	Joseph Ianniello (Acting President and CEO, CBS Corporation) David Rhodes (President of CBS News)
Founded	September 18, 1927; 90 years ago (1927-09-18)
Headquarters	CBS Broadcast Center 530 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 U.S.
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
Streaming News Network	CBSN
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CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS. The president of CBS News is David Rhodes.^[1] CBS News' broadcasts 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 a 24-hour digital news network called CBSN.

History[edit]

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.^{[2]:485–486}

In March 1933, White was named vice president and general manager in charge of news at CBS.^[3] As the first head of CBS News, he began to build an organization that soon established a legendary reputation.^[2]:486

In 1935, White hired Edward R. Murrow, and sent him to London in 1937 to run CBS Radio's European operation.^[2]:486 White led a staff that would come to include Charles Collingwood, William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid,^[4]Bill Downs, John Charles Daly, Joseph C. Harsch^[2]:501Cecil Brown, Elmer Davis, Quincy Howe, H. V. Kaltenborn, Robert Trout,^[5] and Lewis Shollenberger.^[6]

"CBS was getting its ducks in a row for the biggest news story in history, World War II", wrote radio historian John Dunning.^[2]:487

Television[edit]

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.

Douglas Edwards on the CBS news set in 1952.

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.^[7] 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.^[8] Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988.

Broadcast history[edit]

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 Bulletin covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Current CBS News broadcasts[edit]

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CBS News logo.

• CBS Overnight News


• CBS Morning News


• CBS This Morning


• CBS This Morning Saturday


• CBS News Sunday Morning


• Face the Nation


• CBS Evening News


• CBS Weekend News


• 60 Minutes


• 
  48 Hours^[9]

Prime time/evening news program history[edit]

• 
  West 57th (Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) (August 13, 1985 – September 9, 1989)


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  48 Hours (January 19, 1988–present)


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  60 Minutes II (January 13, 1999 – September 2, 2005)


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  America Tonight (Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Lesley Stahl, Robert Krulwich, Edie Magnus) (October 1, 1990 – 1991)


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  Street Stories (Ed Bradley; January 9, 1992 – June 10, 1993)


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  Eye to Eye with Connie Chung (June 17, 1993 – May 25, 1995)


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  Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (October 1, 1997 – 1998)


• CBS Newsbreak


• Person to Person

Morning news program history[edit]

• 
  CBS Morning News (1963–1979)


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  The Morning Program (1987)


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  CBS This Morning (1987–1999; 2012–present)


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  The Early Show (1999–2012)


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  CBS News Saturday Morning (1997–1999)


• 
  The Saturday Early Show (1999–2012)


• 
  CBS Sunday Morning (1979–present)

Late night/early morning program history[edit]

• 
  CBS News Nightwatch (1982–1992)


• 
  CBS Morning News (1982–present)


• 
  CBS Up to the Minute (1992–2015)


• 
  CBS Overnight News (2015–present)

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CBSN[edit]

CBSN is a 24-hour streaming news channel available from the CBS News website and launched on November, 4th 2014. 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.^[10] The Channel is based at CBS's New York City headquarters.

CBS Newspath[edit]

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.

CBS News Radio[edit]

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.

Bureaus and offices[edit]

Domestic bureaus[edit]

• Atlanta, Georgia


• 
  Chicago, Illinois
  


• Dallas, Texas


• Denver, Colorado


• Los Angeles, California


• Miami, Florida


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  New York City (Broadcast Headquarters)


• San Francisco, California


• Washington, D.C.

Foreign bureaus[edit]

• Latin America
  
  • Havana, Cuba


• Europe
  
  • Rome, Italy
  
  
  • London, United Kingdom
  
  


• Middle East
  
  • Istanbul, Turkey


• Asia
  
  • Kabul, Afghanistan
  
  
  • Beijing, China
  
  
  • Tokyo, Japan
  
  


• Africa
  
  • Johannesburg, South Africa

Personnel[edit]

Current correspondents[edit]

New York World Headquarters

Washington, D.C.

• 
  Errol Barnett - Correspondent


• 
  Rita Braver - Senior Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning (1972–present)


• 
  Margaret Brennan - State Department Correspondent; Anchor, Face the Nation
  


• 
  Nancy Cordes - Chief Congressional Correspondent (2007–present)


• 
  Jan Crawford - Chief Legal Correspondent (2005-2006; 2009–present)


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  Major Garrett - Chief White House Correspondent (2011–present)


• 
  Julianna Goldman - Correspondent


• 
  Lara Logan - Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, 60 Minutes
  


• 
  David Martin - National Security Correspondent


• 
  Ed O'Keefe - Political Correspondent


• 
  Jeff Pegues - Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent (2013–present)


• 
  Chip Reid - National Correspondent


• Paula Reid - Correspondent


• 
  Susan Spencer - Correspondent, 48 Hours and CBS Sunday Morning (1977–present)


• Kris Van Cleave - Transportation Correspondent

Los Angeles

• 
  Lee Cowan - National Correspondent (1996-2007; 2013–present)


• 
  Carter Evans - Correspondent


• Jamie Yuccas


• Mireya Villarreal

London

• Charlie D'agata - Foreign Correspondent


• 
  Elizabeth Palmer - Foreign Correspondent (2000–present)


• 
  Mark Phillips - Senior Foreign Correspondent (1982–present)


• 
  Jonathan Vigliotti - Foreign Correspondent

Denver

• 
  Barry Petersen - Correspondent (1978–present)

Chicago

• Adrianna Diaz - National Correspondent


• 
  Dean Reynolds - Correspondent (2007–present)

San Francisco

• John Blackstone - Correspondent

Atlanta

• Mark Strassmann - Correspondent

Miami

• Manuel Bojorquez - Correspondent

Dallas

• 
  David Begnaud - Correspondent


• Omar Villafranca - Correspondent

Rome

• 
  Seth Doane - Foreign Correspondent

Beijing

• 
  Ben Tracy - Foreign correspondent (2008–present)

Johannesburg

• 
  Debora Patta - Foreign Correspondent

Contributors

• 
  Bob Schieffer - Contributor


• 
  Anderson Cooper - 60 Minutes correspondent


• 
  Oprah Winfrey - 60 Minutes correspondent


• 
  Nancy Giles - CBS Sunday Morning correspondent (based in New York)


• 
  Sanjay Gupta - Medical Correspondent (based in Atlanta); also at CNN
  


• 
  Steve Hartman - "On The Road" correspondent for the CBS Evening News (based in New York)


• 
  Ben Stein - CBS Sunday Morning contributor

CBS Newspath

• Nikki Battiste - Correspondent (based in New York)


• Kenneth Craig - Correspondent (based in New York)


• 
  Meg Oliver - Correspondent (based in New York)


• Hena Doba - Correspondent (based in New York)


• Diane King Hall - MoneyWatch Correspondent


• Danielle Nottingham - Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)


• Chris Martinez - Correspondent (based in Los Angeles)


• Weijia Jiang - Correspondent (based in Washington, DC)


• Mola Lenghi - Correspondent (based in Washington, DC)


• 
  Roxana Saberi - Correspondent (based in London)

CBS Radio News

• 
  Pam Coulter - CBS News Radio correspondent


• 
  Steve Dorsey - CBS News Radio Executive Editor, host of the 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

Past correspondents[edit]

Presidents of CBS News[edit]

• 
  Richard S. Salant (1961–1964)


• 
  Fred W. Friendly (1964–1966)


• Richard S. Salant (1966–1979)


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  Bill Leonard (1979–1982)


• Van Gordon Sauter (1982–1983)


• 
  Ed Joyce (1983–1986)


• Van Gordon Sauter (1986)


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  Howard Stringer (1986–1988)


• 
  David W. Burke (1988–1990)


• 
  Eric Ober (1990–1996)


• 
  Andrew Heyward (1996–2005)


• 
  Sean McManus (2005–2011)


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  David Rhodes (2011–)

Reporting Partnerships[edit]

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 is partially controlled by 21st Century Fox). 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 reporters such as Bianna Golodryga and Anderson Cooper.^[11]

See also[edit]

• ABC News


• NBC News


• CNN


• Fox News


• Noticias Univision


• Independent News Network


• Bloomberg News

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website