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CBS named veteran local media exec Joel Vilmenay president and general manager of CBS News and Stations' businesses in Los Angeles several months after an internal investigation into racism and misogyny at the stations led to high-profile ousters in LA and Chicago. Vilmenay's portfolio includes KCBS-TV (CBS 2), <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/kcal/" id="auto-tag_kcal"…

CBS News is changing the name of its CBSN streaming service to simply “CBS News.” The streaming service also will name the local news streaming services to branding such as CBS News Denver or CBS News Boston. Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News and Stations, announced the name change at a town hall on…

Len Tepper, who has led the investigative unit at CBS News, is leaving the network. Meanwhile, Caitlin Conant announced her departure as political director. Tepper has been executive director of CBS News Investigations, which just last week produced a series on military domestic violence, a two-year investigative…

FOURTH UPDATE, 12:57 PM PT: President Joe Biden told reporters that “the core of who we are is not divided,” but also warned that the polarization in the country was bolstering authoritarians who believe that democracy cannot survive in the 21st century. “Are we going to in the next four, five six ten years…

CBS News has launched See It Now Studios, led by longtime producer and former news division president Susan Zirinsky, to produce non-fiction content across ViacomCBS brands and other platforms. Zirinsky stepped down as president of CBS News in the spring, and reportedly had been in talks for a new production role. See…

Claudia Milne will oversee standards and practices across CBS News and stations, after she was tapped as a new senior VP for the division. Milne joined the network in 2019 as managing editor of CBS This Morning and took on additional responsibilities, like breaking news, last year. She’ll start in her new post in…

Al Ortiz, a longtime veteran of CBS News, is returning to the CBS Evening News as interim executive producer, taking the place of Jay Shaylor, who stepped down from the Norah O’Donnell-anchored newscast earlier this month. Ortiz previously served as executive producer of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1998 to…

Jay Shaylor is leaving CBS as executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, the latest change in the news and stations division under new presidents Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani. "Jay Shaylor is leaving the company,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his contributions to the…

CBS News has upped Lance Frank to senior vice president of communications, with an expanded portfolio. Frank, who had been VP of communications since 2019, will add oversight including 60 Minutes+, the race and culture unit and cross-division initiatives. He will continue to oversee communications for CBS Evening News…

Johnny Green Jr. has been named president and general manager of CBS News and Television Stations businesses in New York City, overseeing WCBS-TV, WLNY-TV, CBSN New York and CBSNewYork.com. The network has been undergoing a series of changes since announcing a combination of the news and stations divisions, with a new…

Christy Tanner, the executive vice president and general manager of CBS News Digital, is leaving the network, after playing a central role in the expansion of the division’s streaming service CBSN. “It's been eight years since I joined CBS Interactive, five years since I joined CBS News Digital, and … never years…

Lilia Luciano, an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker, has been named a correspondent for CBS News based in Los Angeles. Luciano joined the network in March, 2020 as a freelance correspondent, and has covered major stories on the West Coast including the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests…