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Katie Couric: The Anachronistic Anchor

Andrew Tyndall | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

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Andrew Tyndall

CBS News never needed an anchor to increase its audience; instead it needed an aggressive online strategy. The last type of anchor it needed was an expensive celebrity.

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Katie Couric Likely To Leave CBS, Says Report; CBS Denies

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.09.2008 | Media

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The Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Dana reports that Katie Couric is likely to leave CBS well before her contract expires in 2011: After two years of ...

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Anchor Purge As CBS News Unloads Staff Across The Country

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media

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LOS ANGELES — CBS-owned TV stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago are reducing their news staffs. The cuts include two well-known an...

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Struggling CBS Looking For Help From Democratic Debate

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

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It is an axiom of political debates that lagging competitors always want them more than front-runners. CBS News, which lags well behind its competitor...

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Katie Couric's YouTube Channel — Explained!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Scott Pelley, Video, Jeff Greenfield, Katie Couric YouTube, Katie Couric, CBS News, Super Tuesday, CBS News Digital Strategy, Bob Schieffer, Media News

We asked CBS News about it, and they very kindly provided us with some answers explaining their goals with the YouTube channel, and their Super Tuesday video.

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A (Buried) YouTube Exclusive: How Much Fun The CBS Team Had On Super Tuesday

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media

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Katie Couric's YouTube channel has an interesting exclusive: A "Behind The Scenes" video taking a look at the making of the CBS News Super Tuesday cov...

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Dan Rather on The View: "One Of The Nicest Guys In This Business," And Also, A Sex God

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

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Barbara Walters and her sisters at The View welcomed Dan Rather to their couch today, with an especially warm welcome from Walters, who called Rather ...

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Katie Couric The Only Anchor Not To Moderate A Primary Debate

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

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On Feb. 5, during MSNBC's Super Tuesday political coverage, anchor Keith Olbermann joked that during this long primary season, it sometimes seemed lik...

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An Open Letter to Powerline (And Others): For the Love of Karl Rove?

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Selective Prosecution, Karl Rove, US Attorney Scandal, Nick Bailey, Doj, Alabama, Noel Hillman, Bill Canary, Alice Martin, Don Siegelman, CBS News, William Pryor, Leura Canary, 60 Minutes, Mark Fuller, Lanny Young, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

If Mr. Rove had no involvement, as he claims, in the political prosecution of Don Siegelman, then why does he not appear before Congress and testify under oath?

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Karl Rove: "CBS Is Now Sort Of The National Enquirer Of Network News"

Huffington Post via TVNewser | Posted 02.25.2008 | Media

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Karl Rove appeared on today's premiere of Fox News' new election show, "America's Election HQ." At the tail end of his segment he addressed last nigh...

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Reporter Held In Contempt In Anthrax Case

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 02.20.2008 | Media

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A federal judge found a former reporter for USA Today in contempt of court on Tuesday for refusing to name her confidential sources who had discussed ...

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CBS Pairs Katie Couric With Cartoons To Explain Superdelegates

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 02.18.2008 | Media

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Critics who regularly bemoan the dumbing down of television news would most likely have been enraged by the sight, on a recent weekday, of animated ch...

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Florida Police Dump Quadriplegic Man From His Wheelchair

Posted 02.13.2008 | Media

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Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authoritie...

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CBS' Bob Schieffer Plans Retirement

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — Veteran CBS Washington hand Bob Schieffer, who has anchored "Face the Nation" since 1991, said Tuesday he plans to step down from the...

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My Mentor: Lesley Stahl

Susan Zirinsky | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

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Susan Zirinsky

I am definitely a living example of luck - right time, right place. In college I had heard about a part time job on the weekends at CBS News' Washing...

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Sam Stein

Edwards Campaign Accidentally Pushed False Obama Quote To Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Kos, Democratic Primary, Edwards Campain Aide, Openleft, False Quote, Ronald Reagan, John Edwards, CBS News, Barack Obama, Matt Stoller, Politics News

Early Thursday afternoon a quote attributed to Sen. Barack Obama applauding the political dexterity of Ronald Reagan appeared on CBS News' website. Th...

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CBSNews.com Pacts With Digg For Election 2008

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business

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CBSNews.com became the latest big-media site to link up with Digg, the news site that allows users to rate stories and video from the biggest MSM mono...

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CBSNews.com Joins With Digg

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 01.09.2008 | Media

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CBSNews.com became the latest big-media site to link up with Digg, the news site that allows users to rate stories and video from the biggest MSM mono...

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Video of Sleeping Guards Shakes Nuclear Industry

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvan...

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CBS Public Eye: An Obituary

Craig Silverman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media

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Craig Silverman

Public Eye died because it operated exactly the way CBS News had originally intended. The organization changed, and suddenly transparency and dialogue were no longer affordable.

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Former CBS Newser Defies Court, Won't Reveal Sources

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 01.01.2008 | Media

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When Jim Stewart stepped down from CBS News in November 2006 after some 16 years of reporting on a range of topics for the Tiffany Network, the longti...

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Couric Newscast Lost 1.1 Million Viewers In '07

New York Post | Posted 12.30.2007 | Media

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AS Katie Couric puts a wrap on her first calendar year as anchor of the last-place "CBS Evening News," she's staring at some sobering stats: more than...

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Military Not Always Enforcing Ban On Gays During Wartime

CBS News | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

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A gay soldier says he disclosed his sexuality to his superiors, even offering graphic proof, and was neither discharged nor reprimanded, despite the m...

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$1 Billion In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq

CBS | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

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Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccoun...

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Primary Questions About The Making Of A "Who Is" The President Series; Or, Something Else That NBC, ABC and CBS Have In Common

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

Read More: NBC News, Rudy Giuiliani, Katie Couric, 2008 Election, CBS News, Nightly News Wars, Anchor Wars, Hillary Clinton, ABC News, Where's Kucinich?, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Proust, Media News

CBS News announced a new Presidential candidate interview series, beginning tonight, called "Primary Questions: Character, Leadership & the Candidates" wherein Katie Couric will pose ten Proust questionnaire-type questions to candidates.

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