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Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King will moderate next week’s Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, with Margaret Brennan, Major Garrett and Bill Whitaker joining them in questioning the candidates. The debate on Feb. 25 will be the first that CBS News has hosted this cycle. Twitter is a debate partner, and the…

CBS Evening News has now made the full transition to Norah O'Donnell as anchor: After her debut in July, the newscast made a move to its permanent location earlier this week, distinguishing itself as the only network evening news broadcast from Washington. On a new set at the CBS M Street bureau, executive producer Ja…

UPDATE: All of the major broadcast networks will pre-empt regular programming on Wednesday and Friday for coverage of the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry. ABC and NBC announced their lineups for the hearings on Monday, joining CBS and PBS, which announced their plans last week. The hearings will start…

During a 60 Minutes interview with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman said that he was not involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who criticized him in The Washington Post. In his first on-camera interview about Khashoggi, the prince was asked by O’Donnell if he ordered…

The final Nielsen numbers for the just-completed 2018-2019 network news season are in, and ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir again finished first in total viewers and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt beat its rivals in key demographics. But viewership was flat or down across the board, even as the networks…

Jay Shaylor has been named executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell as the newscast readies to move to Washington, D.C., from New York later this fall. Shaylor has been executive producer of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer since 2013, and has been part of the team that produced CNN’s election…

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…

Jeff Glor signed off as anchor of the CBS Evening News for the final time Friday, wrapping his last broadcast before Norah O’Donnell takes over this summer from the show’s new home base in Washington, D.C. Glor took a few minutes at the end of the broadcast to wish O’Donnell “the best of luck” and give special thanks…

Jeff Glor will sign off for the last time as anchor of CBS Evening News on Friday, though his replacement Norah O’Donnell will not make her entrance until later in the summer, and then a second grand entrance when the show moves its base to Washington D.C. in the fall. CBS News will put a rotation of buffer anchors…

CBS This Morning did its best to attract the biggest crowd possible to Monday’s broadcast, promising viewers last Friday it would address reports of the show’s on-air overhaul that would put Gayle King in the starring role, joined by Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil. On that Friday, show co-host Norah O’Donnell…

CBS News kicked off Monday with an ebullient Gayle King announcing she will remain on CBS This Morning, joined by two new co-hosts, while Norah O'Donnell is leaving to become anchor of CBS Evening News and John Dickerson heads to 60 Minutes. But it's Jeff Glor who was trending worldwide Monday morning, as O'Donnell's…