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EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Graham, who joined CBS News in 2016 as executive director of communications, has been promoted to vice president. Graham has primarily focused on CBS This Morning and CBS This Morning: Saturday. CBS has sought to differentiate its morning show from Today and Good Morning America by emphasizing news…

TV pundits seem to have come to the same conclusion about special counsel Robert Mueller’s damning testimony before Congress this morning: Mueller is boring. (Watch the livestream here.) Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on the subject of obstruction of justice reiterated a number of his report…

Longtime former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas is set to become a contributor to CBS News. Susan Zirinsky, CBS News President and senior executive producer, said Salinas will deliver reports for multiple broadcasts and platforms and will be a frequent presence in 2020 election coverage. Salinas is best known for…

Norah O’Donnell’s debut as anchor of CBS Evening News drew 5.61 million total viewers Monday, on par with the newscast’s numbers in the recently ended second quarter and year-over-year but lower in viewers and the key news demo compared with this season’s averages. The broadcast, featuring a sit-down with Amazon’s…

UPDATED with video: Norah O’Donnell ended her first CBS Evening News broadcast as anchor with a promise for the future and a nod to the past. Quoting Edward R. Murrow’s famous “wires and lights in a box” speech, O’Donnell pledged to use the “instrument” of television “well and with integrity.” In May, O’Donnell…

Nikki Battiste, a CBS Newspath correspondent whose coverage of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal helped uncover allegations against a Texas priest who was still in active ministry, has been named a CBS News correspondent. She’ll be based in New York and report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms…

In his first U.S. TV interview since taking the helm at Instagram, Adam Mosseri told Gayle King of CBS News that the company is evaluating its stance on “deepfake” videos. Altered, phony videos showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her speech as if impaired or Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talking about profiting…

In a rare appearance on the same stage, the heads of the news divisions at ABC, CBS and NBC took on a range of topics, from M&A to the state of broadcast TV and, of course, coping with the nearly constant barrage of President Donald Trump’s tweets. NBC’s Noah Oppenheim, CBS’ Susan Zirinsky and ABC’s James Goldston all…

Newly re-cast CBS This Morning delivered more of its headline-grabbing exclusives Friday morning – this time a sit-down with Attorney General Bill Barr. It’s Barr’s latest round in his Battle Of Who Gets Last Word with the now-former Special Counsel Robert Mueller since Mueller turned in his report about Russian 2016…

UPDATE, with CBS News response Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said today on CNN’s Reliable Sources news magazine that he was fired from his job because he “wouldn’t stop complaining to management” about a “hostile work environment” in the news division. The remarks came after Pelley was asked about the…

Steve Kroft will retire from 60 Minutes at the end of his 30th season on the newsmag, CBS News announced Friday. America's most-watched news program.  The 73-year-old correspondent is currently the news magazine's longest tenured reporter, having reported nearly 500 60 Minutes stories – many among the broadcast's…

The annual levitation act known as the upfronts each year reflects an extravagantly orchestrated defiance of reality: Hence the TV network sales forces this week were chasing $10 billion in advertising commitments despite the fact that their primetime audience had fallen 38% over five years and that media news seemed…