CBS CBS, GlobalPost Form Int’l News Partnership By kevin on Sep. 28, 2009 - 12:55 PM CBS News has announced that, in an exclusive agreement, the network will partner up with the news site GlobalPost to expand its foreign reach via the site’s 70 correspondents scattered among 50+ countries. The partnership, w ...
CBS | Revolving Door Paul Friedman Upped at CBS News By Chris Ariens on Sep. 23, 2009 - 1:45 PM One of the only news executives to have worked in executive roles at the big three broadcast networks, Paul Friedman, got a promotion today to Executive VP of CBS News. In an email from CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus, ...
Revolving Door CBS News Hires Digital Journalist Based in Afghanistan By Chris Ariens on Jul. 27, 2009 - 12:15 PM Mandy Clark has been named CBS News Digital Journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan. As a digital journalist, Clark will be involved in the reporting, videotaping and editing of her stories for all CBS News platforms. “Mandy ...
Revolving Door Former Adviser to Pres. Bush Joins CBS News By SteveK on May. 19, 2009 - 10:46 AM Juan Carlos Zarate has joined CBS News as a national security analyst. Zarate previously served as the Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2005-2009. He is ...
CBS CBS Cuts From Tel Aviv Bureau Just Before War By SteveK on Jan. 7, 2009 - 11:28 AM The New York Observer’s Felix Gillette writes about the cuts at CBS News’ Tel Aviv bureau “on the eve of the outbreak of war in Gaza.” Gillette reports approximately a dozen employees were losing their job, ...
TV Biz Evening Newscasts Ending Year Surprisingly Strong By SteveK on Dec. 24, 2008 - 7:00 AM NBC Nightly News EP Bob Epstein has been on the job for two weeks. He’s off to a great start. The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams saw its best ratings in nearly two years last week, and the week prior, had some of the b ...
CBS CBS News Eyes Late Election Night, No Matter What By Chris Ariens on Nov. 4, 2008 - 10:11 PM CBS News and Sports president Sean McManu (standing) and Evening News EP Rick Kaplan (seated, third from right) in the control room. After a stop at ABC News’ Times Square studios, we made our way uptown to West 57th Street ...
Politics Networks To Call Them as They See Them By Chris Ariens on Nov. 4, 2008 - 8:28 AM Sheldon Gawiser has been calling elections for NBC for 40 years — his first as polling director at Cleveland’s WKYC in 1968. After the debacle of 2000 (where Gawiser appeared on-air with Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert to e ...
CBS Understanding the Standards By SteveK on Jul. 23, 2008 - 8:02 PM Continuing the fallout from the Katie Couric CBS Evening News interview with Sen. John McCain last night, The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz has more on the answer in question. CBS News SVP Paul Friedman said in a statement: ...