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60 Minutes Creator
Don Hewitt, 86, Dies

Obituary

Aug 19, 2009 11:48 AM CDT

60 Minutes Creator Don Hewitt, 86, Dies

TV legend directed Cronkite, Murrow in nearly 60 years at CBS

(Newser) - Don Hewitt, one of the pioneers of TV news, died today at 86 of pancreatic cancer, CBS reports. Hewitt all but invented television news over the course of his more than 60-year career, directing legends Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. He was behind the 1968 launch of 60 Minutes,...

Rather Digs In for Legal War With CBS

Aug 16, 2009 4:34 PM CDT

Rather Digs In for Legal War With CBS

Tarnished newsman calls lawsuit a stand vs. corporate bullies

(Newser) - Dan Rather is still out to prove that CBS sacrificed him to appease its corporate backers and conservative allies, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a $70-million lawsuit filed 2 years ago, Rather claimed that CBS, caving to Viacom and the Bush administration, forced him to retract a controversial story...

Cronkite Shook Our Faith
in American Institutions

TRIBUTE

Jul 18, 2009 5:00 PM CDT

Cronkite Shook Our Faith in American Institutions

The most trusted man in America often undermined the system

(Newser) - Armed with a “splendid poker face and a voice that incarnated authority,” Walter Cronkite symbolized the very credibility of American institutions that his reporting came to undermine, Todd Gitlin writes in the New Republic. Whether it was the Pentagon or the president of the United States, Cronkite broke...

Cronkite 'Gravely Ill'

Jun 18, 2009 4:47 PM CDT

Cronkite 'Gravely Ill'

(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor and reporter, is “gravely ill,” sources tell Mediabistro columnist Gail Shister. The network began updating its obituary package for the 92-year-old last week, one added. Newsday’s Verne Gay writes that he, too, has heard the rumors: “Walter could be...

TV Networks Scale Back Iraq War Coverage

Dec 29, 2008 9:26 AM CST

TV Networks Scale Back Iraq War Coverage

Afghanistan becomes focus as US deaths fall, budgets drop

(Newser) - Violence is down drastically in Iraq, but so is coverage of the conflict by ABC, NBC, and CBS, who no longer have full-time correspondents in the country, the New York Times reports. Instead, the networks are shifting their focus to Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Afghanistan was the forgotten war,”...

Talking Heads
Vow Restraint
... Sort of

Nov 4, 2008 8:10 AM CST

Talking Heads Vow Restraint ... Sort of

Networks vow some restraint

(Newser) - Television news executives have vowed they won't jump the gun and project a president-elect until one man has 270 electoral votes. And they won't count electoral votes until polls are closed, reports the Los Angeles Times. But if key states in the East and Midwest back Obama, viewers will likely...

Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

OPINION

Sep 1, 2008 9:33 AM CDT

Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

Broadcasters cede historic role as political pundits

(Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their...

Couric's CBS Numbers Hit New Low

Apr 22, 2008 5:42 PM CDT

Couric's CBS Numbers Hit New Low

Evening News watched by average 5.39M last week, good for third

(Newser) - The CBS Evening News hit a new low for viewership, with an average of 5.39 million last week. The previous record was set last September when anchor Katie Couric visited Iraq, the New York Times reports. The latest showing is another piece of bad news for Couric after reports...

Trouble at
CBS Runs
Wide and Deep

Apr 14, 2008 11:09 AM CDT

Trouble at CBS Runs Wide and Deep

Evening News turmoil is last thing Moonves needs

(Newser) - With trouble plaguing most divisions of CBS, last week's flap over Katie Couric's contract was just one of the countless items on Les Moonves' to-do list, the New York Times reports. Ad sales are down industry-wide, Fox is on the tail of the prime-time division and gaining fast, and the...

CBS in Talks
to Outsource
News to CNN

Apr 8, 2008 9:44 AM CDT

CBS in Talks to Outsource News to CNN

Deal would mark watershed for mother of network news

(Newser) - CBS, the network of Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite that is widely credited with inventing television news, is considering outsourcing some of its news gathering activities to CNN, according to the New York Times. No deal is imminent but talks are reportedly taking place at the highest level at both...

Reporters Wounded in Iraq Win Peabody Awards

Apr 2, 2008 4:05 PM CDT

Reporters Wounded in Iraq Win Peabody Awards

Woodruff and Dozier honored for their war reporting

(Newser) - Two journalists seriously injured in Iraq won Peabody Awards today for their stories on wounded veterans, the AP reports. Bob Woodruff of ABC and Kimberly Dozier of CBS each won for their profiles of soldiers returning home from Iraq. Woodruff suffered a brain injury in an IED attack in 2006,...

Clinton 'Misspoke' About Dodging Bosnia Sniper

Mar 25, 2008 4:47 AM CDT

Clinton 'Misspoke' About Dodging Bosnia Sniper

Dem backtracks as Obama camp pounces

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton had to dodge sniper fire when she landed at the start of a goodwill tour of Bosnia in 1996—at least that’s what the senator said last week. But after an archive CBS news video showed the then-first lady smiling and waving without a single bullet whizzing...

SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

Mar 5, 2008 5:12 AM CST

SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

Sketches lampooned starry-eyed coverage

(Newser) - A Saturday Night Live sketch 10 days ago lampooning the perceived media bias favoring Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have changed the way Obama has been covered in the last several days, AP reports. The SNL debate skit showing starry-eyed journalists fawning over Obama echoed complaints by Clinton's supporters....

News Writers Vote to Strike CBS

Nov 20, 2007 4:19 AM CST

News Writers Vote to Strike CBS

Union aims to kick start negotiations

(Newser) - Some 500 CBS News writers and other staffers are threatening to join Hollywood writers on the picket line. News writers, graphic artists, researchers and other network employees who are members of the Writers Guild of America have voted by a huge majority to authorize a strike against the company, the...