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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…

John Dickerson is shifting his focus at the network from correspondent for 60 Minutes to CBS Sunday Morning and other projects. Dickerson has been with 60 Minutes for two years, after a stint as co-anchor of CBS This Morning. He previously was moderator of Face the Nation from 2015 to 2018, and has been filling in for…

Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani, the new presidents and co-heads of CBS News and CBS Television Stations, outlined some of their initial plans for the newly combined division. On their first day on the job, McMahon and Khemlani wrote in a memo to employees that they are “in position to build at scale the premier…

CBS News is launching a series called Eye on Earth: Our Planet in Peril, tied to Earth Day and focusing on climate change and potential solutions. The series will launch on Monday across the network’s platforms, led by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, senior foreign correspondent Mark…

Kimberly Godwin, a longtime CBS executive, has been named the next president of ABC News. News surfaced last week that Godwin was being tapped for the role. Godwin will have oversight over editorial and business operations for broadcast, digital, streaming and audio news. She will succeed James Goldston, who departed…

CBS is searching for a successor to succeed Susan Zirinsky to lead its news division. Zirinsky plans to step down after a two-year tenure as president of CBS News, according to sources. The Wall Street Journal first reported on her plans, and that she is nearing a deal to take a production partnership with parent…

Kim Godwin, a longtime CBS News executive, is poised to become next president of ABC News. Sources said that Godwin is being tapped to fill the position of James Goldston, who announced in January that he was stepping down as of March 31. Godwin would be the first Black woman to run a broadcast network news operation…

UPDATE, 9 AM PT: Derek Chauvin’s attorney laid out a defense that will claim that George Floyd died of a host of other factors than the use of excessive force. Eric Nelson told jurors that Floyd died of cardiac arrhythmia, which he blamed on preexisting conditions of hypertension and coronary disease as well as his…

CBS News is debuting a special on Woody Allen that will feature an exclusive, never-before-aired interview with the filmmaker done last year, following the publication of his memoir, as well as the CBS This Morning interview with Dylan Farrow, who has accused him of sexual abuse when she was a child. Allen has denied…

CBS This Morning topped both of its rivals Today and Good Morning America in ratings for the first time on a single day on Monday, as the network’s morning show featured an interview with Oprah Winfrey and additional clips of her interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. The show garnered 4.79…

Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News correspondent and anchor who later teamed briefly with Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News, has died. He was 93. Mudd died Tuesday of kidney failure at his home in McLean, VA, according to CBS News. With a to-the-point style, Mudd was a familiar face for decades on network television…

Norah O’Donnell will sit down with President Joe Biden for his first network television interview since taking office, with plans to air ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday. The interview will air at 4 PM ET, before Super Bowl kickoff in Tampa between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The interview will…