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CBS News on Friday unveiled a series of changes to its lineup of assignments for correspondents in Washington, D.C. Nancy Cordes, who has covered Capitol Hill for 12 years, moves to chief White House correspondent. Ed O’Keefe, political correspondent since 2018, will become senior White House and political…

Shawna Thomas has been named executive producer of CBS This Morning, taking on her new assignment on Feb. 1. Thomas joins the network show from Quibi, and before that was Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Vice News. Thomas succeeds Diana Miller, who left the program last year. At Quibi, Thomas served as a content…

Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews has been named executive vice president and Washington bureau chief for CBS News. Ciprian-Matthews has served as acting bureau chief since July, after it was announced that Chris Isham would move to a new role before exiting after the election. Ciprian-Matthews will oversee newsgathering and…

National correspondents Jericka Duncan and Adriana Diaz have been named new anchors of CBS Weekend News. Duncan will anchor on Saturdays from Chicago, and Duncan will have Sunday duties from New York. Duncan will anchor this Sunday and Diaz will helm on Dec. 12. They will assume their permanent positions in January. CB…

CBS News has promoted Dell Alann to Los Angeles Deputy Bureau Chief. The news network announced the move Tuesday. “He has great knowledge and contacts around the region and the network,” said CBS News West Coast bureau chief Mark Lima, who was named to that post in August. “He runs an efficient and responsible…

UPDATED: Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King will both interview Barack Obama ahead of the release of his new memoir. For CBS News, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will interview Obama for CBS Sunday Morning and Scott Pelley will talk with him for 60 Minutes, with both interviews to be broadcast on Sunday…

CBS News will base its election night coverage from Times Square for the first time, in ViacomCBS’s headquarters at 1515 Broadway. The network on Thursday announced its plans for coverage of Nov. 3, with a heavy emphasis on its reporting team, visual graphics and exit and polling data. The biggest scrutiny, though…

All three broadcast networks are planning new programming initiatives in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. CBS News has created a voter integrity unit led by Major Garrett that will focus on concerns over casting ballots in the November election, with a series called America Decides: Counting Your…

The biggest bombshells in Bob Woodward’s Rage already have been reported, but in his first sit-down interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday, the famed investigative journalist explained why he decided to make a final judgment in his book about Donald Trump — that the president was the “wrong man for the job.” “You’re known…

CBS News is launching CBS Village, a multiplatform franchise for news division content about diverse groups, while it has made more additions to its newly formed race and culture unit. CBS Village will be a brand dedicated to content about a diversity of communities, including Black, Asian, LGBQT, LatinX, women and…

President Donald Trump ended his press conference on Saturday after being pressed on the claim that his administration passed the Veterans Choice healthcare law. Trump was talking to reporters and supporters in the ballroom of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey when he touched on the US…

CBS News has named Mark X. Lima the west coast bureau chief based in Los Angeles, where he will oversee news gathering in the western region. Lima most recently served as the vice president of news for Univision/Fusion. He also served as executive producer of the weekly Facebook Watch program Real America with Jorge Ra…