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CBS News

david zaslav
Dylan Byers • August 7, 2024

The Zaz Squeeze & CBS’s New Hydra

News and notes on a particularly busy August in the industry: David Zaslav’s brutal quarter, CBS News’s uninspiring new management structure, Deb OConnell’s moves at ABC, and Axios’s pivot.
Dylan Byers • July 31, 2024
Anchors Away
lester holt
News and notes on the future of broadcast news amid the O’Donnell pivot and other industry murmurs.
Dylan Byers • July 30, 2024
Norah the Explorer
Norah O’Donnell
O’Donnell is leaving her anchor perch at ‘CBS Evening News’ for a Barbara Walters-style interview tentpole role—a more freewheeling gig for her, sure, but also the latest sign of an era that keeps on ending in the network news business.
mark thompson
Dylan Byers • April 12, 2024
Mark Mysteries & Daily Beast Micro Deal Heat
News and notes on three trending media mini-sagas: Mark Thompson’s inability to share his CNN reinvention, CBS News’ dreary ploy, and Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood’s Daily Beast M&A effort.
Catherine Herridge
Dylan Byers • February 23, 2024
The Herridge Foundation
News and notes on a roiling and utterly predictable TV news microscandal.
CNN’s post-Licht leadership quadrumvirate announced a new primetime lineup that will see Abby Phillip and Laura Coates taking over the 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. hours, respectively.
Dylan Byers • August 16, 2023
CNN’s Deck Chairs & An End to “The Neeraj Problem”
News and notes on the cable news trade—CNN’s shakeup, the youth double-down, and CBS News’ new chapter.
Norah O’Donnell
Dylan Byers • April 8, 2022
Norah O’Donnell Makes Her Next Career Move
After plenty of rumors to the contrary, Norah O’Donnell is staying home, and set up to finally become the Peter Jennings of CBS—the star that the news division is built around, which in 2022, naturally, means some streaming stuff, too. So is it all water under the bridge with Neeraj?
Shari Redstone
William D. Cohan • March 16, 2022
Should Shari Redstone Flip CBS News?
Redstone likely can’t sell Paramount Global—oh, that name—until she finds a way to offload its broadcast and local news assets. For private equity dealmakers, here’s where things could get interesting.
Ari Emanuel in 2010
Dylan Byers • January 28, 2022
“It’s Ari Emanuel’s Network Now”
After Maddow’s work-less-for-more mega-deal, Emanuel has now negotiated a fifth hour for Joe & Mika, and helped Stephanie Ruhle take over for BriWi. What’s going on at MSNBC? (Will they start airing bull-riding at midnight?)
Norah O'Donnell
Dylan Byers • January 26, 2022
The CBS News Blues
The former House that Cronkite Built is reeling from the ill-fated recruitment of Brian Williams, insults to Norah O’Donnell’s ratings, and botched crisis communications. Meanwhile, they’ve hired a consulting firm to analyze the news division as Shari Redstone presumably sets up ViacomCBS for an eventual sale.