Updated: The companywide layoffs at Paramount Global on Tuesday impacted about 20 employees at CBS News, including correspondents Catherine Herridge and Jeff Pegues, several sources said.
CBS News did not comment on the cuts, with some of the names of those let go first reported by the New York Post.
Herridge joined CBS in 2019 from Fox News, and served as senior investigative correspondent covering national security and intelligence. She has been in a First Amendment legal battle over a stories she did when she was at Fox News on a federal investigation of a Chinese American scientist. A federal judge had ordered her to reveal her source or face hefty fines.
Pegues was CBS News chief national affairs and justice correspondent, based in Washington, having joined the network in 2013.
Sources said that others who were laid off include Christina Ruffini, a correspondent covering foreign affairs and the State Department, and Pamela Falk,...
CBS News did not comment on the cuts, with some of the names of those let go first reported by the New York Post.
Herridge joined CBS in 2019 from Fox News, and served as senior investigative correspondent covering national security and intelligence. She has been in a First Amendment legal battle over a stories she did when she was at Fox News on a federal investigation of a Chinese American scientist. A federal judge had ordered her to reveal her source or face hefty fines.
Pegues was CBS News chief national affairs and justice correspondent, based in Washington, having joined the network in 2013.
Sources said that others who were laid off include Christina Ruffini, a correspondent covering foreign affairs and the State Department, and Pamela Falk,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Approximately 20 CBS News staffers were given termination notices Tuesday as a result of broader layoffs taking place across Paramount Global.
The cuts extended across CBS News operations in Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles, according to two people familiar with the matter, and included two of the news operation’s most prominent correspondents, Jeff Pegues and Catherine Herridge, these people said.
A CBS News spokesperson did not respond immediately to a query seeking comment. The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the number of layoffs, while The New York Post reported on some of the staffers who had been affected.
Pegues was named CBS News’ chief national affairs and justice correspondent in March of 2021, while Herridge has worked as an investigative correspondent at CBS News in Washington since joining the operation in 2019 after a long stint at Fox News Channel.
Herridge has been embroiled in a court case...
The cuts extended across CBS News operations in Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles, according to two people familiar with the matter, and included two of the news operation’s most prominent correspondents, Jeff Pegues and Catherine Herridge, these people said.
A CBS News spokesperson did not respond immediately to a query seeking comment. The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the number of layoffs, while The New York Post reported on some of the staffers who had been affected.
Pegues was named CBS News’ chief national affairs and justice correspondent in March of 2021, while Herridge has worked as an investigative correspondent at CBS News in Washington since joining the operation in 2019 after a long stint at Fox News Channel.
Herridge has been embroiled in a court case...
- 2/13/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
The CBS Building in New York City.
Paramount Global has let go of nearly two dozen people at its CBS News division as part of a broader action involving layoffs across its company, according to a report.
On Tuesday, the New York Post’s Alexandra Steigrad said around 20 CBS News employees were among 800 workers to receive pink slips this week.
The affected journalists include award-winning correspondent Catherine Herridge, who is in the middle of a legal battle involving confidential sources she used for a story aired during her time at the Fox News Channel. Steigrad said Herridge was known to clash with CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews over some of her stories.
Jeff Pegues, a CBS News correspondent who was investigated by the network’s human resources department over certain alleged conduct involving colleagues, was also let go on Tuesday, the Post said, citing unnamed sources. Political correspondent Christina Ruffini...
Paramount Global has let go of nearly two dozen people at its CBS News division as part of a broader action involving layoffs across its company, according to a report.
On Tuesday, the New York Post’s Alexandra Steigrad said around 20 CBS News employees were among 800 workers to receive pink slips this week.
The affected journalists include award-winning correspondent Catherine Herridge, who is in the middle of a legal battle involving confidential sources she used for a story aired during her time at the Fox News Channel. Steigrad said Herridge was known to clash with CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews over some of her stories.
Jeff Pegues, a CBS News correspondent who was investigated by the network’s human resources department over certain alleged conduct involving colleagues, was also let go on Tuesday, the Post said, citing unnamed sources. Political correspondent Christina Ruffini...
- 2/13/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
There’s nothing quite like a multi-layered, deeply clever film title to get the creative juices going, to pump the blood, to send Hollywood into a tizzy. And then there are other titles. Deadline Henderson reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Productions “has made a preemptive acquisition of [comedy pitch] Bad In Bed.” I’m not entirely sure what a “preemptive acquisition” means, but I think it’s safe to assume it’s another spat of weird wordplay from Finke (were they trying to block someone else from getting at it? Isn’t that big business in a nutshell? Why am I still fixated on this?), so we’ll move on. The script for the film will be penned by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the screenwriting duo who previously wrote The Wedding Planner and An Invisible Sign (better known as “that Jessica Alba math film that no one saw”). The pitch is described as ”a racy high concept...
- 11/14/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Exclusive: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has made a preemptive acquisition of Bad In Bed. The comedy pitch will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, the scribes behind The Wedding Planner. They describe it as a racy high concept comedy but they are keeping the specifics under wraps. The title makes it seem self evident. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Joy Gorman developed it with the writers and will produce. Skydance principal Ellison and his production president Dana Goldberg made the deal with Wme and Anonymous Content. The scribes are separately developing an untitled project with Offspring Entertainment’s Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, along with Anne Fletcher for Warner Bros. Skydance is co-financing and producing a slew of Paramount tent poles, including the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, the Barbra Streisand-Seth Rogen comedy My Mother’s Curse, the Tom Cruise-starrer One Shot,...
- 11/14/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Quirk alert! This movie has it all! Math, burgeoning love, numbers and patterns everywhere like "A Beautiful Mind" and even a precocious little kid. We don't know if we can take any more. A trailer has landed for the Jessica Alba-led romantic comedy "An Invisible Sign." Directed by Marilyn Agrelo (”Mad Hot Ballroom”), written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis (who paired on “The Wedding Planner”) and based on Aimee Bender‘s book “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” the story follows a math teacher, obsessed with numbers, who battles her own compulsive behaviours, guides her students and deals with the…...
- 4/6/2011
- The Playlist
Sandra Bullock is attached to star in and executive produce an untitled Warner Bros. drama that will reunite her with "The Proposal" director Anne Fletcher.According to Variety, Offspring Entertainment's Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing.Warner Bros. bought the pitch from writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis ("The Wedding Planner"), who will write the script. No plot or story details were given except that it will combine elements of the late 70's produced films "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever."Bullock's last role was her Oscar-winning turn in "The Blind Side."She's currently circling Alfonso Cuaron's space adventure "Gravity," and the post-9/11 drama "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Fletcher's credits include "27 Dresses" and "Step Up."...
- 10/20/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
You know your father was Captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 Casting Tidbits. Including your mother's and yours. I dare you to do better. First up, Variety reports Sandra Bullock will star in and executive produce a new drama at Warner Bros. with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher at the helm. Very little is known about the untitled project which spawned from a pitrch from writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, but it's described as An Unmarried Woman meets Saturday Night Fever. However, this will not be Bullock's next project to follow-up The Blind Side since she's looking to take a lead role in Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. Next, though he's been set to play famous cyclist and humanitarian Lance Armstrong in a long-gestating biopic, it looks like Matt Damon will tell the story of the Tour de France champion in a different way. 24 Frames reports ...
- 10/20/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Actress Sandra Bullock might be considered for lead roles in a couple of high profile movies, but despite that she's landing herself another lead role and an executive producer's spot in the latest drama from Warner Bros. She'll be directed by Anne Fletcher once more, who previously worked with Bullock on the romantic comedy "The Proposal". The untitled film still has it's story under wraps, but it's said to combine elements of "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever". It's based off a pitch by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis who are hard at work putting together the script. The two previously collaborated on the script for the romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner".Bullock wants to make sure she's still working it up post-Oscar, latching onto several projects which include "Most Wanted" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Fletcher, noted most for her directed work in "27 Dresses" and "Step Up...
- 10/20/2010
- LRMonline.com
It seems only natural that director Anne Fletcher would propose to Sandra Bullock that they reunite after the success of last year's "The Proposal." According to The Hollywood Reporter Fletcher did just that... and Bullock has said "I do": The two of them are teaming up for an as-yet-untitled romantic comedy that's being written by "The Wedding Planner" scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis and is said to be in the vein of "An Unmarried Woman" and "Saturday Night Fever."
Though she has yet to tackle a role since her Oscar win for "The Blind Side," Bullock does have several other high profile projects in the works as we speak... and I don't think I'd be the first to suggest it might be better for her to put the rom-com down, slowly back away and try something a little bit different. That could be Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi thriller...
Though she has yet to tackle a role since her Oscar win for "The Blind Side," Bullock does have several other high profile projects in the works as we speak... and I don't think I'd be the first to suggest it might be better for her to put the rom-com down, slowly back away and try something a little bit different. That could be Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi thriller...
- 10/20/2010
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
Sandra Bullock is reteaming with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher for an untitled Warner Bros. release that she will also executive produce, says The Hollywood Reporter . The pitch comes from Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment are producing. According to the trade, "the contemporary-set project is described as in the vein of the 1978 Paul Mazursky film 'An Unmarried Woman' and 'Saturday Night Fever.'" Bullock's next project will either be Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity or Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close . Fletcher is now developing Most Wanted , which would reteam her with both The Proposal stars Ryan Reynolds and Bullock.
- 10/20/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Sandra Bullock will star in as well as serve as an executive producer in a Warner Bros. Pictures film that has been set up with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot of Offspring Entertainment. The project reunites Bullock with her "The Proposal" director Anne Fletcher. That film generated a hefty $317 million worldwide last year. Anne Fletcher, whose Bullock starrer "The Proposal" grossed $317 million worldwide last year, is onboard to direct. Warner Bros. bought the untitled pitch for the drama from scripters Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk. Sandra Bullock's Fortis and Offspring's Matt Smith are executive producing.
- 10/20/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sandra Bullock is reteaming with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher for an untitled contemporary drama. Details of the project, which she will also executive produce, are sketchy but The Hollywood Reporter said it will be in the vein of the 1978 Paul Mazursky film An Unmarried Woman and Saturday Night Fever. The pitch comes from The Wedding Planner writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis while Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot are producing.
- 10/20/2010
- Sky Movies
Warner Bros has bought a pitch that will be developed to re-team The Proposal star Sandra Bullock and director Anne Fletcher. The script will be written by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis. The studio recently signed Bullock to team with Robert Downey Jr. in the Alfonso Cuaron-directed film Gravity...Robin Williams is in discussions to play the title role of a talking tiger in the Broadway transplant of Rajiv Joseph's play Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo.
- 10/20/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
She's still dithering about whether or not to sign up for Alfonso Cuaron, but Sandra Bullock certainly will be working with The Proposal's Anne Fletcher again, on a new project that she'll also executive produce.The script is still at the pitch stage, but will come from Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis, who wrote The Wedding Planner. It's described as in the vein of An Unmarried Woman and Saturday Night Fever, so Bullock will star as a woman whose husband leaves her for a younger model, and who finds inner wellbeing and liberation in her new singleton life when she gets into disco-dancing and gang-fighting and her friend falls off a bridge. Maybe.As Yet Untitled is the second project to come up that will reunite Bullock and Fletcher: the action comedy Most Wanted is also on the cards, set to pair Bullock with Ryan Reynolds again, and reignite that Proposal fire,...
- 10/20/2010
- EmpireOnline
Hollywood beauty Jessica Alba has reportedly been set to star in "An Invisible Sign of My Own". As Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Film Fund signed up a financing deal for the project over the weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, words are coming out that the 27-year-old is most likely to join the film's cast ensemble as the leading lady.
According to Film-Releases, she has been picked up to take the role previously attached to America Ferrera. If the story were true, it means that Alba will be portraying 20-year-old loner, Mona Gray, who as a child, hides herself behind numbers and math. But, when she grows up and becomes a second-grade math teacher, she is forced to step out from her secluded world.
Based on Aimee Bender's novel, "Invisible" will be directed by Marilyn Agrelo from the script written by "The Wedding Planner" scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis.
According to Film-Releases, she has been picked up to take the role previously attached to America Ferrera. If the story were true, it means that Alba will be portraying 20-year-old loner, Mona Gray, who as a child, hides herself behind numbers and math. But, when she grows up and becomes a second-grade math teacher, she is forced to step out from her secluded world.
Based on Aimee Bender's novel, "Invisible" will be directed by Marilyn Agrelo from the script written by "The Wedding Planner" scribes Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis.
- 9/8/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Taking on his first romantic comedy role, Vin Diesel will star in and produce Revolution Studios' NY Giant, to be written by The Wedding Planner scribes Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk. Sources say the writers are receiving $750,000 against $1.2 million for the script. Giant, a tentative title, is about a hotheaded football player who is forced to deal with an uptight female etiquette expert or risk losing his lucrative endorsement contract. In the process, the unlikely pair fall in love.
- 3/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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