ViacomCBS’ layoffs this week also impacted CBS News and CBS-owned affiliates, the latest fallout to hit news media amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The layoffs were said to make up a single-digit percentage of the news division — reportedly 5%, or about 75 employees. They follow recent staff cuts at outlets such as The A…
Veteran news executive Bill Small passed away on Sunday after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus. The former CBS News Washington Bureau Chief, NBC News President, United Press International President and Chairman of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, was 93.
Small served as CBS’ Washington Bureau Chief…
UPDATED with CBS News statement & Norah O’Donnell video: Despite a technical glitch putting the kibosh on Tuesday’s East Coast airing ofCBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, the show will go on.
A 6:30 PM PT West Coast edition of the network's evening news will air as planned, sources tell Deadline. Earlier Tuesday…
President Donald Trump had a lengthy Q&A with reporters at the White House on Tuesday, but he was irritated by one journalist, CBS News’ Paula Reid, for her query or the way it was asked.
Reid asked: “Mr. President, why haven’t you announced a plan to get 36 million unemployed Americans back to work? You are…
Chris Livesay has joined the staff of CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in Rome, where he already has been reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.
Livesay has previously reported around the world for outlets including NBC News, PBS NewsHour, PBS Frontline and NPR News.
He began reporting for CBS News at…
CBS News will air a one-hour primetime special, Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line, in which journalists embed with emergency physicians and other medical workers treating COVID-19 patients.
The special will air at 9 PM ET on May 15.
The project focuses on Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, which…
CBS News has removed a portion of a CBS This Morning segment on coronavirus testing that featured a Michigan hospital. But the network denies claims made in a new Project Veritas video that CBS News was behind any effort to stock a line of cars at the hospital’s drive-through testing site to make it look…
The White House coronavirus briefing was shorter than any all week — just over an hour — but it also left lingering questions of whether hospitals will get the ventilators, masks, gowns and other badly needed medical equipment as coronavirus cases escalate.
And as usual, President Donald Trump had a few tiffs over…
A staff member at CNN has tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest employee of a news organization to contract the disease.
All three major broadcast networks — CBS News, ABC News and NBC News — have reported that one or more employees who have contracted the virus. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported that CNN…
CBS News foreign correspondent Seth Doane tested positive for the coronavirus, and on Monday reported from his home in Rome where he is in quarantine.
“I started to have a little bit of a cough that worried me,” Doane explained on CBS This Morning. “For the most part I feel OK. As we know this is a deadly virus.”
He…
(UPDATED WITH NBC NEWS STATEMENT) With a number of members of the media in America and around the globe already sequestered due to growing coronavirus fears, CBS News today saw two of its own team test positive. At the same time NBC News is taking a cautious approach beginning next week.
In a memo sent to staff in the…
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to be forgiving – or at least forgetting – the Nazi army metaphor that now seems like the beginning of the end for Chris Matthews at MSNBC.
A day after Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday victory, Sanders told reporters that his own campaign has had to face “venom by some in…
