CBS News
| CBS News | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | New York |
| Type: | News Media |
| Affiliation: | CBS |
| Top official: | David Rhodes, President |
| Website: | Official website |
CBS News is the news division of CBS. CBS News operates across multiple platforms, including television, radio and online news.
CBS News has over nine million viewers a day and, while compared to NBC and ABC, CBS' viewership is the lowest, its TV news magazine, 60 Minutes, has the highest news magazine viewership across networks.[1]
Background
CBS News, headquartered in New York, is the news division of CBS. The news division includes news magazine shows such as the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning and Face the Nation.[2]
Evening news viewership of CBS News has, since 2008, remained relatively steady; as of 2015, viewership for the evening news was around 6.8 million viewers, compared to 8 million for ABC and 8.9 million for NBC.[1] Morning viewership of CBS' This Morning show has gone up four percent since 2008, while NBC's morning show lost 12 percent and ABC's gained 23 percent.[1] CBS' Sunday program Face the Nation, according to the Pew Research Center, is the most watched Sunday news program, compared to ABC's This Week, Fox's Fox News Sunday and NBC's Meet the Press. Likewise, CBS' 60 Minutes has over 10 million viewers, while the next closest news magazine show, NBC's Dateline Friday, has about 6.4 million viewers.[1] Online traffic for CBS is behind the other two networks, ABC and NBC; CBS' mobile traffic is higher than its desktop traffic and, overall, the total digital traffic was about 47K unique visitors for January 2015.[1]
Notable journalists
Since its inception, CBS News has employed numerous journalist. Below is a brief and incomplete list of some of the more notable journalists:[3][4]
- Ed Bradley
- Walter Cronkite
- Fred Friendly
- Don Hewitt
- Charles Kuralt
- Bill Moyers
- George Polk
- Edward R. Murrow
- Dan Rather
- Lesley Stahl
- Steve Kroft
- Morley Safer
- Harry Reasoner
- Christiane Amanpour
- Mike Wallace
- Diane Sawyer
- Bob Schieffer
2016 presidential elections
- See also: Presidential debates (2015-2016)
On August, 2015, CBS announced that they and Twitter, KCCI-TV and The Des Moines Register would host the second Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa. Twitter, according to CBS News, would supply realtime data during the debate that measuredpeople's responses to the debate.[5][6]
CBS News' John Dickerson moderated the debate along with CBS congressional correspondent, Nancy Cordes, KCCI-TV (CBS affiliate) anchor, Kevin Cooney, and political columnist for the Des Moines Register, Kathie Obradovich.[7][8]
Leadership
Below is the list of the leadership of CBS News:[9]
- David Rhodes, President
- Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, Senior Vice President, News Administration
- Steve Capus, Executive Editor and Executive Producer, CBS News
- Kurt Davis, Vice President, News Services
- Christopher Isham, Vice President and Bureau Chief, Washington, D.C.
- Chris Licht, Vice President, Programming
- Sonya McNair, Senior Vice President, Communications
- Alison Pepper, Executive Director, Recruitment and Development
Media
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See also
- John Dickerson
- CBS Democratic debate (November 14, 2015)
- Nancy Cordes
- Kevin Cooney
- Kathie Obradovich
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Pew Research Center, "Network News: Fact Sheet," April 29, 2015
- ↑ CBS Corporation, "CBS News," accessed November 13, 2015
- ↑ NYU, "The 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years," accessed November 13, 2015
- ↑ CBS News, "60 Minutes," accessed November 13, 2015
- ↑ CBS News, "Twitter, CBS and the 2015 Democratic debate," November 3, 2015
- ↑ CBS News, "CBS News announces details for 2016 debates," August 11, 2015
- ↑ Des Moines Register, "Debate moderator seeks to focus on issues, not himself," November 9, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "CBS News, Twitter partner up for second Democratic debate," October 26, 2015
- ↑ CBS News, "CBS News Bios," accessed November 13, 2015
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