Jill Schlesinger isn’t afraid to tell you how to really handle your dollars and cents. The former head of an investment advisory firm, Schlesinger has served as a business analyst for CBS News since 2013, helping to translate complex financial issues for everyday viewers and listeners. Now she’s going to take her blunt advice to … Read more
Trevor Phillips, a longtime British writer and anchor and former U.K. politician, has been named senior global affairs correspondent at CBS News, where Bari Weiss, the unit’s editor in chief, has articulated an interest in focusing on provocative voices and thinkers, potentially over traditional newsgathering. Phillips most recently hosted Sky News’ flagship program “Sunday Morning … Read more
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a former co-host of ABC’s “The View” and “Fox & Friends” will serve as a guest host next week on “CBS Mornings,” according to a person familiar with the matter, part of what is expected to be a series of try-outs as CBS News worked to overhaul a program that has fallen further … Read more
Staffers have taken to calling it “Black Thursday.” On May 28, a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at “60 Minutes,” the longest-running and highest-rated news program in the country, were unceremoniously shown the door. Correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as well as executive producer Tanya Simon and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, were among them. The firings were carried … Read more
No room this summer on David Geffen’s mega-yacht, Rising Sun? Oligarchs and moguls needn’t worry, there’s always July in Sun Valley – Allen & Co.’s annual leadership retreat for media and tech barons in Idaho. The “billionaire summer camp” has long been the scene for trust falls and starry panels, while the real gamesmanship of … Read more
Scott Pelley’s bombshell interview with The New York Times over the weekend after his firing from “60 Minutes” has drawn even more scrutiny to the management style of Bari Weiss, who in October was installed to oversee CBS News. The former print journalist, who launched the “Free Press” website, had no TV experience when Paramount … Read more
Seeking: Business executive to help manage one of nation’s best-known news brands. Must enjoy long hours, fluid and fluid work schedule — and editorial chief with predilection for generating controversy. Paramount Skydance has been on the hunt for a business executive who can work with Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, who … Read more
FCC boss Brendan Carr went after journalist Scott Pelley for claiming in his recent New York Times profile that it “hadn’t occurred” to him that he would be fired from “60 Minutes.” “One of the reasons why trust in media is so low is because many legacy journalists are completely out of touch,” Carr wrote … Read more
Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley suggested in an interview with The New York Times that CBS News parent Paramount Skydance remove Bari Weiss as the leader of the news division, alleging in an emotional exchange that “television’s not her thing” and her inexperience with the medium and her belief that mainstream media is biased … Read more
Unemployment looks good on former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, who took to Instagram on Saturday to thank his fans for their support after the program’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton, fired him after an explosive confrontation. “To all of you who have been so kind, you are the wind in my sails. So deeply … Read more