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Jeff Fager Stepping Down as Chairman of CBS News, Returns Fulltime to ’60 Minutes’

By Chris Ariens on Nov. 20, 2014 - 2:33 PM

Jeff Fager is leaving his role as chairman of CBS News and turning his “full attention” to “60 Minutes.” “It is hard to believe that it has been four years since Les asked me to take the job, but we a ...

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CBS | Revolving Door | SportsNewser

CBS Sports Ups David Berson to President

By Alex Weprin on Jun. 4, 2013 - 10:04 AM

CBS has made a big promotion, upping CBS Sports Network chief David Berson to president of CBS Sports. Berson will continue to report to CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus, and will add day-to-day responsibility of the division to h ...

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CBS | SportsNewser

CBS Sports Chief: Super Bowl Blackout ‘a surreal situation’

By Alex Weprin on Feb. 5, 2013 - 9:51 AM

The chairman of CBS Sports, Sean McManus, talks to the LA Times‘ Joe Flint about the Super Bowl blackout. McManus says that, were they to do everything over again, he would have pushed to have someone from the NFL appear o ...

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NBC | Revolving Door

Who’s In Line to Take Over at NBC News?

By Chris Ariens on Feb. 1, 2013 - 1:37 PM

In his farewell note to staff, departing NBC News president Steve Capus writes, “I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.” So, too, do the men and women vying to replace Capus. Capus says NBCU N ...

Titans, Moguls and a Presidential Candidate Pay Respects to Mike Wallace

By Chris Ariens on May. 1, 2012 - 3:53 PM

If the news business was like football, Mike Wallace would be its MVP. But if news was a beauty contest, Wallace would never have been Mr. Congeniality. That’s what hundreds of Mike Wallace’s friends, colleagues and fa ...

James Brown On His CBS News Role: ‘I would like to think there will be no limits’

By Alex Weprin on Mar. 2, 2012 - 11:32 AM

CBS Sports anchor James Brown is no stranger to television news. He has filled in on “The Early Show,” and his 2009 interview with Michael Vick for “60 Minutes” drew accolades. Now, CBS has formalized the p ...

A Few More Minutes with Andy Rooney

By Chris Ariens on Jan. 12, 2012 - 4:08 PM

Friends and colleagues from across the TV spectrum joined Andy Rooney’s four children this morning at Rose Hall, bidding farewell to the CBS News essayist, who died November 4 following complications from minor surgery. Roon ...

Chris Wragge on His Return to WCBS: ‘I’m actually very flattered’

By Chris Ariens on Aug. 18, 2011 - 12:35 PM

Chris Wragge is training for the triathlon in Montauk, NY in October. But his training schedule is about to get a shakeup. Beginning Sept. 6, Wragge will anchor the 6pm news on WCBS while also continuing to co-anchor the network&# ...

Jim Axelrod on the new, old CBS News: ‘There is a collective spring in the step of everyone here’

By Gail Shister on Jul. 1, 2011 - 8:58 AM

Failure was the best thing that ever happened to CBS’s Jim Axelrod. “If you buy the premise that you learn more from failure than success, you’ve learned the most important lesson,” says Axelrod, a New York-based national ...

Newsers Turn out to Remember Jeff Gralnick

By Chris Ariens on Jun. 23, 2011 - 5:40 PM

The heads of the big three news networks convened at the penthouse of the Le Parker Meridien hotel this morning for a memorial service for Jeff Gralnick who worked at ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News during his TV news career. NBC ...

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