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As the final days of the 2020 presidential race focus on swing state rallies and the latest batch of polling, a story last week was a reminder of another concern amid all of the anxiousness: foreign interference. On Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell interviewed Dan Coats, the…

As the United States inches closer to November 3 in one of the most crucial and history-making elections, stakes are high and the country is on their toes. Next Sunday, 60 Minutes will put a spotlight on the election next week with interviews featuring presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Lesley Stahl…

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…

UPDATED with CBS News statement & Norah O’Donnell video: Despite a technical glitch putting the kibosh on Tuesday’s East Coast airing of CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, the show will go on. A 6:30 PM PT West Coast edition of the network's evening news will air as planned, sources tell Deadline. Earlier Tuesday…

Donald Trump fumed over a 60 Minutes segment in which Norah O’Donnell interviewed coronavirus whistleblower Rick Bright, with the president going so far as to suggest that ViacomCBS chairwoman Shari Redstone “knows how to make things right.” Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development…

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…