Prime Election Day: Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service has officially thrown its hat into news coverage. As Puck’s Dylan Byers reported weeks ago, Prime Video has struck a deal with former NBC News anchor Brian Williams to helm special election night coverage that will free to watch for Prime Video subscribers. Election Night with Brian…
Steve Capus will become executive producer of the newscast anchored by Scott Pelley.
In a 27-year television career, he covered the shooting of Pope John Paul II and conflicts in the Middle East and Vietnam, among other pivotal events.
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Mr. Plissner was a reporter and writer known for his ability to cultivate sources and for a dexterity in covering primaries that contributed to increased competition among television networks.
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As New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton will reunite with his friend and sidekick, John Miller, a prominent CBS News reporter.
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After a career spent toggling between television and law enforcement, Mr. Miller is leaving CBS News to work in counterterrorism, the network announced on Thursday.
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Viewers expect and deserve the show to bring its A game when it takes on a huge issue like the N.S.A., to serve as a stand-in for the American people and ask the uncomfortable questions.
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While two local Connecticut newspapers rushed to make the full recordings available, other media outlets held back.
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The leaves for the CBS correspondent and her producer follow an internal report that criticized her reporting methods for the segment on “60 Minutes.”
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In a brief statement, the program says the review — which had not been mentioned before — began “the moment we confirmed there was an issue in our story.”
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The network acknowledged that it had suffered a blow to its credibility in broadcasting a report with an interview of someone who was never at the scene.
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The first black woman to cover the White House for CBS News, Ms. Thornton also was a co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR, a news program producer for CNN and a teacher of journalism.
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After Charlie Rose broadcast an hourlong talk with Bashar al-Assad on PBS, George Stephanopoulos of ABC was invited to do the same, but the rug was pulled out from under him.
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The interview with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which took place on Sunday at the presidential palace in Damascus, will be broadcast on Monday by CBS and PBS.
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Mr. Dunning, whose 35 years at CBS News were spent primarily in Asia, is best known for his reporting on the last flight out of Da Nang as that city fell to North Vietnam.
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In the 1950s and ’60s, numerous secret agents for the United States used journalism as a cover. Mr. Goodrich, unlike some, considered himself primarily a spy.
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Abe George, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan who is running against the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, aims to stop the broadcast of a six-part series featuring Mr. Hynes’s office.
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Byron Pitts will become ABC’s chief national correspondent and a substitute anchor, after 15 years at CBS.
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