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Susan Zirinsky Back at CBS News As Interim Executive Editor

Susan Zirinsky Back at CBS News As Interim Executive Editor

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Former CBS News president Susan Zirinsky is returning to a leadership role at the news division as executive editor on a temporary basis. CBS CEO George Cheeks announced Zirinsky’s role in a memo Monday evening. Zirinsky, or “Z” as she is affectionately known inside CBS, will also continue to run the documentary division See it Now Studios. Cheeks said that CBS News and Stations chief Wendy McMahon has been searching for an executive editor “with the specific mandate of ensuring we have the expertise, resources and oversight to enable coverage of the most challenging issues with the highest degree of balance and integrity.” He noted that complex, charged news like the conflict in Gaza can be challenging to navigate. An interview conducted by CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil even became national news, and sparked a response from Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone. And on Monday, the Anti-Defamation League released a statement criticizing a 60 Minutes statement as “biased and one-sided” against Israel. “While there is no way to cover such sensitive issues without provoking some …

Meredith Vieira’s Journalist Husband Was 76

Meredith Vieira’s Journalist Husband Was 76

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Richard Cohen, an Emmy-award winning journalist and husband of former Today anchor Meredith Viera for 38 years, has died. He was 76 years. “Richard Cohen died on Christmas Eve, surrounded by his family and love,” Today co-host Hoda Kotb, said of his Dec. 24 death on the NBC morning magazine show on Tuesday. Cohen had lived with multiple sclerosis for over 50 years and died after a bout with pneumonia, according to The Hudson Independent, which was the first to report on his passing. He also survived two earlier battles with colon cancer. Born on Feb. 14, 1948 in New York City, Cohen was first diagnosed with MS when he was 25-years-old, just as he began working with ABC News as an associate producer. “I don’t deny that I have the illness. I did for a while, and I think everybody does. But you come face to face with the symptoms soon enough. You’d be really out of touch with reality if you tried to play that game,” Cohen said in a 2007 interview with …

Dan Rather Returns to CBS for CBS Sunday Morning Interview

Dan Rather Returns to CBS for CBS Sunday Morning Interview

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Dan Rather is returning to CBS News. Nearly 20 years after stepping down as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, and 18 years after he last appeared on the network, the anchor will return to a CBS program. This time, he will be the subject of an interview on CBS Sunday Morning. Per a release from CBS, “Lee Cowan talks with former CBS News anchor Dan Rather about his work at CBS and his life in news.” A source confirms that it will be Rather’s first appearance on a CBS News program since he formally left the network under tumultuous circumstances nearly two decades ago. Rather said that he was the scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report for 60 Minutes II on then-President George W. Bush’s military record, and the anchor subsequently sued the network for breach of contract. The 60 Minutes spin-off was canceled less than a year later. The incident was memorialized in a 2015 film called Truth, in which Robert Redford portrayed Rather. CBS would refuse to accept advertising …

Pope Francis calls for peace in Ukraine, Gaza: ‘A negotiated peace is better than a war without end’

Pope Francis calls for peace in Ukraine, Gaza: ‘A negotiated peace is better than a war without end’

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In his first in-depth interview with a U.S. network, Pope Francis called for peace in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and said a “negotiated peace” is better than an ongoing conflict. “Please. Countries at war, all of them, stop the war. Look to negotiate. Look for peace,” the Pope said in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday. The Pope has been outspoken about stopping the Israel-Hamas war and saving the civilians in Gaza, mentioning it in his addresses since the conflict broke out last year. He said every day around 7 p.m. he calls Gaza to the parish. There are about 600 people who provide updates about the situation in Gaza. “It’s very hard, very, very hard. Food goes in, but they have to fight for it,” he said. “It’s very hard.” When asked if he could help negotiate peace between Hamas and Israel, he said he can and has prayed “a lot” about it. Since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel launched its counteroffensive, more than 34,000 Palestinians have died. …

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?

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Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here.   Republicans are on the offensive this week against what they say is Democrats’ lack of support for Israel following Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent criticism of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he will invite Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a move he made without first consulting the Senate leader. This comes after President Joe Biden and Netanyahu spoke for the first time in more than a month, and after Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican presidential nominee, accused Jews who support Democrats of hating Israel and their own religion. Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The …

Anger and Frustration Grows in the House

Anger and Frustration Grows in the House

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Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, November 24, 2023 Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic November 25, 2023, 6:15 PM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. Anger and frustration is growing among some members of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s caucus over government spending. Johnson has a long legislative to-do list when the House returns to Washington after Thanksgiving, and with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority, his moves will be scrutinized by Republicans and Democrats alike. Joining guest moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic, Lisa Desjardins, this week to discuss this and more are Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent at The New York Times; Nikole Killion, Congressional correspondent at CBS News; Toluse Olorunnipa, White House bureau chief at The Washington Post; and Susan Page, Washington bureau chief at USA Today. Read the full transcript here. Source link

The Anarchic Spirit Among House Republicans

The Anarchic Spirit Among House Republicans

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October 7, 2023, 6:18 PM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here. Representative Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, was ousted from his role as speaker of the House this week, and the race for someone to replace him is under way. The anarchic spirit that is alive and well among House Republicans threatens to exacerbate the federal government’s dysfunction and places support for Ukraine in peril as another potential shutdown looms. What does the GOP’s infighting mean for the health of the party and the country, and for the 2024 presidential campaign? Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss these issues and more: Nancy Cordes, the chief White House correspondent at CBS News; Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent at Politico and a co-author of “Playbook”; and Chuck Todd, the chief political analyst at NBC News. Source link

Atlantic Festival announces Hillary Rodham Clinton

Atlantic Festival announces Hillary Rodham Clinton

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The Atlantic is today announcing new speakers––including former Secretary of State and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton––appearing at the 15th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place on Thursday, September 28, and Friday, September 29, at The Wharf in Washington, D.C. Clinton will be in conversation with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, discussing existential threats to democracy. Goldberg will also interview Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Also announced today are an interview with Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra with senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II; and a conversation led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and president of Emerson Collective, with the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III. The Atlantic is pleased to welcome and announce CBS News as the exclusive broadcast media partner for The Atlantic Festival. CBS News journalists will moderate a number of conversations at the festival, and the network will have a presence throughout the event. The festival’s two days will feature interviews with the …

The Republican Presidential Debate Is a Pageant of Also-Rans

The Republican Presidential Debate Is a Pageant of Also-Rans

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What are we all doing here? The Republicans’ first primary debate dangles on the calendar like one of those leftover paper snowflakes slapped up on the mini-fridge. It feels like a half-hearted vestige—it’s late summer, five months before the first votes are cast; precedent calls for a lineup of haircuts on a stage. And for the most part, the qualifiers will oblige, except for the main haircut—former President Donald Trump, barring some last-minute fit of FOMO that lands him in Milwaukee en route to his surrender to authorities in Georgia. So why should the rest of us bother? Would anyone watch a Mike Tyson fight if Iron Mike wasn’t actually fighting? Or The Sopranos, if Tony skipped the show for a therapy session (with Tucker Carlson)? Poor Milwaukee, by the way, which already suffered desertion three summers ago when it was selected to host the Democratic National Convention only to have COVID keep everyone home. Joe Biden blew off his own convention and didn’t bother to send an emissary (no Jill, Kamala, or even Doug). …