CBS News

CBS News
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Headquarters New York City, New York, United States
Area served Worldwide
Key people Jeff Fager (Chairman of CBS News)[1]
David Rhodes (President of CBS News)[2]
Scott Pelley (Lead Anchor)[3]
Dan Farber (Editor-in-chief, CBSNews.com)[4]
Parent CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Website www.cbsnews.com

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes.[5] CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main anchor, Scott Pelley. Other programs include a morning news show called, CBS This Morning, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, & 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation.

Contents

Current CBS News broadcasts

Broadcast history

The information on programs listed in this section came directly from CBS News in interviews with the Vice President of Communications and NewsWatch Dallas.

According to the CBS News Library and source Sandy Genelius (Vice President, CBS News Communications), the "CBS Evening News" was the program title for both Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts. The program title for the Sunday late night news beginning in 1963 was the "CBS Sunday Night News". These titles were also seen on the intro slide of the program's opening.

Five minute news program history

Saturday afternoon/evening network news history (15 & 30 minute programs)

Sunday late afternoon/early evening news history

CBS Sunday late news history (all 15 minute programs)

Prime time/evening news program history

CBS Newspath

CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news gathering service (similar to CNN Newsource). CBS Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. CBS Newspath has a team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. CBS Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally-obtained footage that may be of national interest.

Network News Service (NNS) is a pioneering news organization formed by ABC News One, CBS Newspath and Fox News Edge. Launched in June 2000, its subscriber list already includes more than 500 ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates throughout the United States. The three news distributors created NNS to cost-effectively pool resources for developing and delivering second tier news stories and b-roll footage. The goal was to realize cost savings in the creation and distribution of these news images, while news organizations and member TV stations continued to independently develop and deliver their own signature coverage of top news stories.

CBS Radio Network News

The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is CBS Radio News, which airs on the CBS Radio Network. The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS and traced its roots to the company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the following 10 years. The list of CBS News correspondents (below) includes those reporting on CBS Radio News.

CBS Radio News produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television, the CBS World News Roundup (it first aired in 1938 and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2008), which airs each morning and evening. The morning CBS Radio World News Roundup is anchored by Steve Kathan and produced by Paul Farry. The “late edition” is anchored by Bill Whitney and produced by Greg Armstrong. The evening Roundup, previously known as The World Tonight, has aired in its current form since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards, Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn.

The CBS Radio Network provides newscasts at the top of the hour, regular updates at :31 past the hour, the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates (including WCBS and KYW) at :35, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at :20 and :50 past the hour. Westwood One handles the distribution.

Slogans

Personnel

Current correspondents

New York World Headquarters

Washington

Los Angeles

London

Chicago

San Francisco

Atlanta

Denver

Beijing

Rome

Middle East

Contributors

CBS Newspath

CBS Radio News

Source: CBS News & NewsWatch Dallas

Past correspondents

+ - deceased Source: CBS News & NewsWatch Dallas

Bureaus and offices

(Source: CBS News - Vice President of Communications) Domestic Bureaus & Offices*

Foreign Bureaus & Offices*

(CBS News defines a bureau or office as "a definite physical location with CBS NEWS staff ... not someone's home or space or having a stringer living in a city." CBS Radio News also has Jerusalem and Manila.)

International broadcasts

CBS Evening News is shown on Sky News to viewers in Europe and Africa.

In Australia, the CBS Evening News bulletin is shown at 11.30am Monday to Saturday, and at 12.30pm on Sundays on Sky News Australia.

In Philippines, CBS Evening News is broadcast via satellite on Q11 (a sister station of GMA Network) at 7:30pm and Replays at 1:00pm after Balitanghali. CBS Evening News broadcasts were stopped on Q11 to make way for a public affairs look-back program (Napa-Strip Or Power Review)

CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both CBS News is shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. CBS News stories are a common occurrence on Australia's Ten News on Network Ten, as part a CBS programming content deal. They also air The Early Show each weekday as well.

Controversies

In 1964, Rep. Jimmy Utt (R-Cal.) filed a libel suit against CBS regarding a CBS Reports "Case History of a Rumor" program. He claimed the defendants had "'entrapped' him into giving a television interview that turned out to be a 'cross examination' by Roger Mudd, who acted as 'prosecutor, judge, and jury.'" The case was dismissed. Utt died in office in 1970 and was succeeded by John G. Schmitz.[6]

On February 15, 1966, CBS News president Fred Friendly resigned in protest after the network declined to show hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the expanding Vietnam War in favor of reruns of I Love Lucy. The decision, made by the network's vice president of broadcasting, John M. Schneider, specifically related to the testimony of George F. Kennan not being shown, in contrast to NBC News, which was showing it live.

Political bias

Throughout the years, numerous conservative activists have accused CBS News of perpetuating a liberal bias in its news coverage. The Media Research Center, a right-wing media watchdog group led by L. Brent Bozell, has been especially critical about what it has perceived to be unduly favorable coverage of liberal topics by CBS, especially during the tenure of CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather.[7][8] In his 2001 book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, former CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg extensively criticized Rather's management of CBS News and what he claimed was Rather's combatative efforts to skew the network's coverage.

Journalism scandals

Subsidization of Haitian invasion

In 1971, the Federal Communications Commission and the House Commerce Committee issued reports claiming that CBS News financially subsidized Project Nassau, a planned 1966 invasion of Haiti intended to overthrow then-dictator François Duvalier; CBS News allegedly became involved in the plot in order to shoot the invasion for a television documentary. However, the participants in the invasion were arrested by the FBI before it could be carried out. In a deposition, Atlanta Journal reporter Tom Dunkin claimed that Jay McMullen, a CBS producer, told him that he had "spent a lot of time and money on this project and had nothing to show for it." CBS was denounced by Vice President Spiro Agnew, who accused the network of disseminating "self-serving propaganda."[9]

2004 Killian documents

See also: Killian documents controversy

On September 8, 2004, two months before the 2004 presidential election, 60 Minutes II broadcast a report by Dan Rather claiming that a series of memos had surfaced criticizing President George W. Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, purportedly discovered in the personnel files of Bush's then-commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. However, independent analysis of the documents in question -- particularly analysis of their anachronistic typographic conventions -- strongly suggested that they were actually forgeries.

Despite initially defending the authenticity of the documents, Rather and CBS eventually admitted that they were misled about how they were obtained; Rather, however, has continued to insist that the documents weren't conclusively proved to be forged. After an internal investigation, CBS dismissed four producers and allegedly hastened Rather's retirement as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS in 2007, claiming that the network and its management had made him a "scapegoat" in the Killian story. In 2009, Rather's lawsuit was dismissed.

Plagiarism

On the April 4, 2007, broadcast of the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric gave a one-minute commentary about the importance of reading. However, it was later discovered that Couric's commentary was substantially lifted from a column by Jeffrey Zaslow in The Wall Street Journal. Despite the personal flavor of the piece -- with Couric saying how she still remembered receiving her first library card -- it was later determined that a producer had written the commentary instead of Couric, and that she had plagiarized from Zaslow's column. CBS quickly fired the producer and promised changes to its procedures.

References

  1. ^ "Jeffrey Fager". CBS News. February 8, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/08/60minutes/bios/main26911.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody. 
  2. ^ CBS News. March 3, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/17/utility/main525997.shtml?tag=ftr#r. 
  3. ^ "Scott Pelley". CBS News. June 6, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/06/broadcasts/main51732.shtml?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea;cbsnewsMainColumnArea.1. 
  4. ^ CBS News (2011). "CBS News Bios". CBSNews.com. CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/03/utility/main525997.shtml. Retrieved 6 October 2011. 
  5. ^ CBS News. March 3, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/17/utility/main525997.shtml?tag=ftr#m. 
  6. ^ Mudd, Roger (2008). The Place To Be. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586485764. 
  7. ^ 20 Years On the CBS Evening News: Dan Rather's Outrageous Liberal Bias, Media Research Center, c. 2003
  8. ^ Remembering the Ratherisms, Media Research Center, 22 March 2001
  9. ^ MIT archives, "TECH", Mar 23, 1971

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