Face The Nation has a new moderator, and it’s CBS News White House and senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan. (TVNewser)
Brennan will anchor her first show in the role this Sunday. She is only the second woman to hold the role in the more than 60 years Face The Nation has been on the air. Lesley Stahl hosted the show from 1983-1991. (THR)
Brennan joined CBS News in 2012 and has been White House and senior foreign affairs correspondent since 2017. Prior to joining CBS News, she anchored and reported for Bloomberg Television, and was a correspondent at CNBC. She also contributed to various NBC News programs. Brennan began her career as a producer for CNBC’s Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser. (Variety)
At CBS, Brennan has reported on the Trump White House and helped lead coverage of major international stories, including diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, nuclear negotiations with Iran, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and nuclear tensions in North Korea. She recently interviewed Rex Tillerson, President Trump’s secretary of state, for 60 Minutes. She succeeds John Dickerson, who left Face The Nation in January after less than three years to replace Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning. (NYT)