Susan Zirinsky is preparing to step down from her role at CBS News president, according to an individual with knowledge of the company.
Zirinsky has helmed the news organization for two years.
A representative for CBS declined to comment on Zirinsky’s plans. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, she will soon ink a production deal with the network’s parent company, ViacomCBS Inc.
There has been speculation about her possible departure, which only grew following reports last week that Kimberly Godwin will soon depart her role as CBS News’ executive vice president to become the president of ABC News.
Their exits would leave two top roles at CBS News vacant.
Zirinsky, a beloved figure at CBS News who started out as a production clerk in 1972, faced her fair share of fires to put out when she took over the network’s news division following the ouster of David Rhodes.
Zirinsky has helmed the news organization for two years.
A representative for CBS declined to comment on Zirinsky’s plans. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, she will soon ink a production deal with the network’s parent company, ViacomCBS Inc.
There has been speculation about her possible departure, which only grew following reports last week that Kimberly Godwin will soon depart her role as CBS News’ executive vice president to become the president of ABC News.
Their exits would leave two top roles at CBS News vacant.
Zirinsky, a beloved figure at CBS News who started out as a production clerk in 1972, faced her fair share of fires to put out when she took over the network’s news division following the ouster of David Rhodes.
- 4/13/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Chris Cuomo held up a giant cotton swab on TV last May and poked fun at his brother, the governor of New York, during an interview. Now journalism observers wonder if CNN must clean up a lapse in journalism ethics.
Cuomo anchors what has become CNN’s most-watched program, a 9 p.m. hour that in the not-too-distant past served as home to Larry King, the master of the genial celebrity interview. Cuomo can be amiable, too, but he is also master of a tough, on-air style that can veer from interview to interrogation, and guests on occasion can grow combative. His show, “Cuomo Prime Time,” is often viewed as a signature element of the Jeff Zucker era at CNN, during which the executive has helped foment a more lean-in attitude from a cable outlet once viewed as a vanilla dispenser of facts and stories.
At the height of coronavirus chaos,...
Cuomo anchors what has become CNN’s most-watched program, a 9 p.m. hour that in the not-too-distant past served as home to Larry King, the master of the genial celebrity interview. Cuomo can be amiable, too, but he is also master of a tough, on-air style that can veer from interview to interrogation, and guests on occasion can grow combative. His show, “Cuomo Prime Time,” is often viewed as a signature element of the Jeff Zucker era at CNN, during which the executive has helped foment a more lean-in attitude from a cable outlet once viewed as a vanilla dispenser of facts and stories.
At the height of coronavirus chaos,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
“CBS This Morning” co-host Bianna Golodryga is leaving the show and the network, CBS News announced in a statement Wednesday.
“Bianna Golodryga has decided to leave the network. We thank her for her many contributions during her time here at CBS News and wish her the very best in her future endeavors,” a statement from CBS News read.
Golodryga was the newest member of the “CBS This Morning” team, having joined the show in October 2018.
Also Read: 'CBS This Morning' Ratings Have Dropped Double Digits Since Charlie Rose's Ouster Last Year
“Viewers know us as the real news destination in the morning – which is why Bianna is the perfect addition to our team,” CBS News president David Rhodes said at the time. “We are so fortunate to have her curiosity and global perspective on every broadcast of ‘CBS This Morning.”‘
Golodryga had worked alongside the program’s more established hosts,...
“Bianna Golodryga has decided to leave the network. We thank her for her many contributions during her time here at CBS News and wish her the very best in her future endeavors,” a statement from CBS News read.
Golodryga was the newest member of the “CBS This Morning” team, having joined the show in October 2018.
Also Read: 'CBS This Morning' Ratings Have Dropped Double Digits Since Charlie Rose's Ouster Last Year
“Viewers know us as the real news destination in the morning – which is why Bianna is the perfect addition to our team,” CBS News president David Rhodes said at the time. “We are so fortunate to have her curiosity and global perspective on every broadcast of ‘CBS This Morning.”‘
Golodryga had worked alongside the program’s more established hosts,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
The family of Rupert Murdoch became so divided over the sale of key 21st Century Fox film and TV assets to Disney that papers were drawn up for the mogul and his son and successor, Lachlan, to buy out the stock of siblings James, Elisabeth and Prudence, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The deal fell through late last year after Lachlan Murdoch got cold feet over the financial cost, the paper reported.
That’s just one of the many revelations in a lengthy exposé in the Times, titled “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.”
Also Read: Sean Hannity Needles 'Lowlife' Alec Baldwin: 'Becoming More and More Unhinged'
Here are some of the other noteworthy revelations in the story, reported over six months by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg.
1. Rupert Murdoch has long ties to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
The mogul and his then-wife...
That’s just one of the many revelations in a lengthy exposé in the Times, titled “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World.”
Also Read: Sean Hannity Needles 'Lowlife' Alec Baldwin: 'Becoming More and More Unhinged'
Here are some of the other noteworthy revelations in the story, reported over six months by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg.
1. Rupert Murdoch has long ties to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
The mogul and his then-wife...
- 4/3/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
A shareholder lawsuit filed last summer against CBS and several of its current and former leaders has been amended to charge that $200 million in stock was unloaded by insiders who knew the company would face serious exposure in the second half of 2018.
The share sales were “timed to capitalize on CBS’s inflated stock price before defendant [Les] Moonves’s misconduct and the pervasive sexual harassment that permeated the company was revealed to the market,” the complaint alleges. The suit says the company’s declaration of a “zero-tolerance” policy against sexual harassment and other public assertions were contradicted by Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker exposés and later New York Times reports, amounting to a “fraudulent scheme.”
Led by shareholders Gene Samit and John Lantz, the putative class-action suit names CBS as well as ex-ceo Moonves, acting CEO Joe Ianniello, former Chief Accounting Officer Lawrence Liding (now head of China operations) and...
The share sales were “timed to capitalize on CBS’s inflated stock price before defendant [Les] Moonves’s misconduct and the pervasive sexual harassment that permeated the company was revealed to the market,” the complaint alleges. The suit says the company’s declaration of a “zero-tolerance” policy against sexual harassment and other public assertions were contradicted by Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker exposés and later New York Times reports, amounting to a “fraudulent scheme.”
Led by shareholders Gene Samit and John Lantz, the putative class-action suit names CBS as well as ex-ceo Moonves, acting CEO Joe Ianniello, former Chief Accounting Officer Lawrence Liding (now head of China operations) and...
- 2/12/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The International Women’s Media Foundation (Iwmf) last week honored several outstanding female journalists at the 2018 Courage in Journalism Awards luncheon at Cipriani 42ndStreet.
Andrea B. Smith and Christy Turlington Burns
Credit/Copyright: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Iwmf
This year’s honorees included news agency Jinha founder, Zehra Doğan, U.S. freelance photojournalist, Meridith Kohut, undercover CNN International correspondent, Nima Elbagir, and organized crime reporter and Zeta editor-in-chief, Rosario Mosso Castro. “60 Minutes’” Lesley Stahl also received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, MSNBC President, Phil Griffin was recognized with the Iwmf Leadership Award along with Bloomberg News’ Senior Editor, Karen Toulon who was honored with the Gwen Ifill Award.
The honorees were selected for exhibiting extraordinary bravery and courage as they reported from areas of instability, oppression and conflict. Since its inception in 1990, the Iwmf has honored more than 100 female journalists from 55 countries. The Courage in Journalism Awards show people...
Andrea B. Smith and Christy Turlington Burns
Credit/Copyright: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Iwmf
This year’s honorees included news agency Jinha founder, Zehra Doğan, U.S. freelance photojournalist, Meridith Kohut, undercover CNN International correspondent, Nima Elbagir, and organized crime reporter and Zeta editor-in-chief, Rosario Mosso Castro. “60 Minutes’” Lesley Stahl also received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, MSNBC President, Phil Griffin was recognized with the Iwmf Leadership Award along with Bloomberg News’ Senior Editor, Karen Toulon who was honored with the Gwen Ifill Award.
The honorees were selected for exhibiting extraordinary bravery and courage as they reported from areas of instability, oppression and conflict. Since its inception in 1990, the Iwmf has honored more than 100 female journalists from 55 countries. The Courage in Journalism Awards show people...
- 10/31/2018
- Look to the Stars
CBS News correspondent Bianna Golodryga is joining CBS This Morning as co-host, taking her seat at the table alongside Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell and John Dickerson.
The announcement was made Wednesday by David Rhodes, president of CBS News.
“Viewers know us as the real news destination in the morning – which is why Bianna is the perfect addition to our team,” said Rhodes. “We are so fortunate to have her curiosity and global perspective on every broadcast of CBS This Morning.”
Golodryga, who has been a reporter and fill-in co-host since 2017, begins Wednesday. She will ...
The announcement was made Wednesday by David Rhodes, president of CBS News.
“Viewers know us as the real news destination in the morning – which is why Bianna is the perfect addition to our team,” said Rhodes. “We are so fortunate to have her curiosity and global perspective on every broadcast of CBS This Morning.”
Golodryga, who has been a reporter and fill-in co-host since 2017, begins Wednesday. She will ...
- 10/3/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
They’re getting ready to start the stopwatch again at CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Over the course of its more than half-century of life, the venerable CBS newsmagazine has had only two chiefs, Jeff Fager and Don Hewitt. Now it has none. That won’t keep the show off the air. “60 Minutes” will kick off its 51st season on Sunday, even though CBS News has yet to name a new executive producer for the program.
Viewers can expect to see a profile of Paul McCartney in which the former Beatle offers intimate anecdotes about his relationship with John Lennon to correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. The producer of the segment is Bill Owens, who also happens to be the show’s executive editor and is viewed as an internal candidate for the executive producer slot. And correspondent Bill Whitaker will offer the sixth in his series of examinations of the nation’s opioid epidemic,...
Over the course of its more than half-century of life, the venerable CBS newsmagazine has had only two chiefs, Jeff Fager and Don Hewitt. Now it has none. That won’t keep the show off the air. “60 Minutes” will kick off its 51st season on Sunday, even though CBS News has yet to name a new executive producer for the program.
Viewers can expect to see a profile of Paul McCartney in which the former Beatle offers intimate anecdotes about his relationship with John Lennon to correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. The producer of the segment is Bill Owens, who also happens to be the show’s executive editor and is viewed as an internal candidate for the executive producer slot. And correspondent Bill Whitaker will offer the sixth in his series of examinations of the nation’s opioid epidemic,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
There could be an A+ job in the news business waiting for the CBS producer known to many, simply, as “Z.”
Susan Zirinsky, often referred to by the first letter of her last name. has been at CBS News since 1972, but it’s what she might do in 2018 and going forward that could be infinitely more interesting.
She has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments during her CBS tenure, but they have had nothing to do with the network’s venerable newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” Zirinksy currently oversees the long-running program “48 Hours,” but also has supervised award-winning documentaries and breaking news specials. She even served as the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s high-standards news producer in the 1987 film “Broadcast News.”
She knows what it takes to keep a mature brand modern. In 2015, she tested a limited-run podcast to accompany one of the hour-long crime stories that regularly air on “48 Hours.
Susan Zirinsky, often referred to by the first letter of her last name. has been at CBS News since 1972, but it’s what she might do in 2018 and going forward that could be infinitely more interesting.
She has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments during her CBS tenure, but they have had nothing to do with the network’s venerable newsmagazine “60 Minutes.” Zirinksy currently oversees the long-running program “48 Hours,” but also has supervised award-winning documentaries and breaking news specials. She even served as the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s high-standards news producer in the 1987 film “Broadcast News.”
She knows what it takes to keep a mature brand modern. In 2015, she tested a limited-run podcast to accompany one of the hour-long crime stories that regularly air on “48 Hours.
- 9/17/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
CBS Evening News revealed tonight the text that 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager sent to one of the news division’s female reporters that got him fired.
National Correspondent Jericka Duncan, who has been reporting on CBS’ exec harassment allegations and exits, said Fager texted her after she contacted him for comment on Ronan Farrow’s Sunday New Yorker article, in which another women alleged Fager has sexually harassed her at an office party.
The Fager text read:
If you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be responsible for harming me. Be careful. There are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem.
Earlier on Wendesday, after CBS News announced Fager’s exit, effective immediately, Fager said...
National Correspondent Jericka Duncan, who has been reporting on CBS’ exec harassment allegations and exits, said Fager texted her after she contacted him for comment on Ronan Farrow’s Sunday New Yorker article, in which another women alleged Fager has sexually harassed her at an office party.
The Fager text read:
If you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be responsible for harming me. Be careful. There are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me and if you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up that will become a serious problem.
Earlier on Wendesday, after CBS News announced Fager’s exit, effective immediately, Fager said...
- 9/12/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Embattled former “60 Minutes” head Jeff Fager was fired for sending a harshly worded warning via text message to the CBS News reporter who is covering the sexual harassment scandals that have rocked CBS in recent weeks.
Fager was let go Wednesday amid growing pressure from sexual harassment allegations from multiple women as reported by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker.
CBS News president David Rhodes said Wednesday that Fager was fired for violating company policy. Fager issued a statement referring to the text message he sent correspondent Jericka Duncan after she reached out to him for comment on Sunday, the day Farrow’s latest expose was published.
According to Farrow’s report, Fager has been accused of groping or inappropriately touching female CBS News staffers at company events.
Duncan reported on the situation with Fager on Wednesday’s edition of “CBS Evening News.” She read from Fager’s text message:...
Fager was let go Wednesday amid growing pressure from sexual harassment allegations from multiple women as reported by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker.
CBS News president David Rhodes said Wednesday that Fager was fired for violating company policy. Fager issued a statement referring to the text message he sent correspondent Jericka Duncan after she reached out to him for comment on Sunday, the day Farrow’s latest expose was published.
According to Farrow’s report, Fager has been accused of groping or inappropriately touching female CBS News staffers at company events.
Duncan reported on the situation with Fager on Wednesday’s edition of “CBS Evening News.” She read from Fager’s text message:...
- 9/12/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager has stepped down from his position as head of the CBS news series, the network said in a statement Wednesday.
Fager’s departure is effective immediately, according to the announcement from CBS News president David Rhodes.
60 Minutes executive editor Bill Owens will manage the show until Fager’s replacement is found, Rhodes said, adding, “This action today is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently. However, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies at every level.”
The allegations to which...
Fager’s departure is effective immediately, according to the announcement from CBS News president David Rhodes.
60 Minutes executive editor Bill Owens will manage the show until Fager’s replacement is found, Rhodes said, adding, “This action today is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently. However, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies at every level.”
The allegations to which...
- 9/12/2018
- TVLine.com
Updated with Fager statement: CBS News chief David Rhodes issued a statement Wednesday announcing that Jeff Fager, longtime division exec and current executive producer of 60 Minutes, was stepping down “effective immediately.”
Fager is out in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, including a new one on Sunday that was detailed in Ronan Farrow’s piece in the New Yorker that brought down CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves earlier this week. This time, a former intern accused the newsmag chief/former CBS News chair of groping her at an office party.
Rhodes insisted in his statement that “This action today is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently.”
“However, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies at every level,’ Rhodes said, adding that Moonves’ interim CEO replacement Joe Ianniello “is in full support of this decision and the transition to come.
Fager is out in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, including a new one on Sunday that was detailed in Ronan Farrow’s piece in the New Yorker that brought down CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves earlier this week. This time, a former intern accused the newsmag chief/former CBS News chair of groping her at an office party.
Rhodes insisted in his statement that “This action today is not directly related to the allegations surfaced in press reports, which continue to be investigated independently.”
“However, he violated company policy and it is our commitment to uphold those policies at every level,’ Rhodes said, adding that Moonves’ interim CEO replacement Joe Ianniello “is in full support of this decision and the transition to come.
- 9/12/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeff Fager will leave as executive producer of “60 Minutes,” effective immediately, just three days following the forced resignation of CBS CEO Leslie Moonves.
“Jeff Fager is leaving the company effective immediately,” read a note to staff from CBS News president David Rhodes on Wednesday, obtained by TheWrap. “Bill Owens will manage the ’60 Minutes’ team as Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and I begin the search for a new executive producer of the program. ’60 Minutes’ is the most significant news broadcast on television. We are fortunate to have incredibly talented journalists in place whom we know will continue to deliver our defining investigative work.”
Fager’s departure comes amid a slew of sexual misconduct accusations that have been leveled against the longtime CBS News executive. Fager was accused of misconduct by six women in Ronan Farrow’s July New Yorker exposé about workplace culture at the network and its news division. In early May,...
“Jeff Fager is leaving the company effective immediately,” read a note to staff from CBS News president David Rhodes on Wednesday, obtained by TheWrap. “Bill Owens will manage the ’60 Minutes’ team as Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and I begin the search for a new executive producer of the program. ’60 Minutes’ is the most significant news broadcast on television. We are fortunate to have incredibly talented journalists in place whom we know will continue to deliver our defining investigative work.”
Fager’s departure comes amid a slew of sexual misconduct accusations that have been leveled against the longtime CBS News executive. Fager was accused of misconduct by six women in Ronan Farrow’s July New Yorker exposé about workplace culture at the network and its news division. In early May,...
- 9/12/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Jeff Fager, the longtime executive producer of “60 Minutes” and a top figure in the TV-news business, is leaving the venerable newsmagazine, CBS News said Wednesday. The company said Fager “violated company policy,” but declined to elaborate.
Fager has been under scrutiny for months, along with CBS Corp., the parent of CBS News. The news unit has been besieged by a set of allegations about sexual harassment and the culture of the company ever since former “CBS This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose was terminated after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct were levied at him last year. A blockbuster article in the New Yorker by journalist Ronan Farrow published in August cited interviews with 19 current and former CBS employees who claimed Fager (pictured. above), only the second executive producer of “60 Minutes” and a former chairman of the news division, turned a deaf ear to instances of harassment even as three...
Fager has been under scrutiny for months, along with CBS Corp., the parent of CBS News. The news unit has been besieged by a set of allegations about sexual harassment and the culture of the company ever since former “CBS This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose was terminated after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct were levied at him last year. A blockbuster article in the New Yorker by journalist Ronan Farrow published in August cited interviews with 19 current and former CBS employees who claimed Fager (pictured. above), only the second executive producer of “60 Minutes” and a former chairman of the news division, turned a deaf ear to instances of harassment even as three...
- 9/12/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
With CEO Leslie Moonves’ departure from CBS expected to be finalized within the next 24 hours, industry attention will turn quickly to the future of a company that, until recently, had been widely viewed as a model of stability.
Moonves — who on Sunday was the subject of a New Yorker article that detailed new sexual assault and harassment allegations against him — has largely defined CBS’ corporate culture. Nearly every top level executive at the company was hired by Moonves, who first joined as entertainment president in 1995 and has been the company’s top executive since its split with Viacom in 2006.
Joseph Ianniello, CBS’ chief operating officer, is expected to take over as chief operating officer with Moonves’ exit. Long considered Moonves’ handpicked successor to take over the company upon his eventual retirement, Ianniello is expected to be given a chance to compete for the chief-executive post on a permanent basis. However,...
Moonves — who on Sunday was the subject of a New Yorker article that detailed new sexual assault and harassment allegations against him — has largely defined CBS’ corporate culture. Nearly every top level executive at the company was hired by Moonves, who first joined as entertainment president in 1995 and has been the company’s top executive since its split with Viacom in 2006.
Joseph Ianniello, CBS’ chief operating officer, is expected to take over as chief operating officer with Moonves’ exit. Long considered Moonves’ handpicked successor to take over the company upon his eventual retirement, Ianniello is expected to be given a chance to compete for the chief-executive post on a permanent basis. However,...
- 9/9/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Pundits have blamed the media for giving Donald Trump too much airtime since he launched his presidential campaign in June 2015. But Oct. 7 to 14 might have been this season's most lopsided when comparing Trump with Hillary Clinton — and Clinton isn't complaining. Thanks to the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump boasts about groping women, the network news bosses — ABC's James Goldston, NBC's Andrew Lack and CBS' David Rhodes — dedicated a combined 70 minutes of nightly news coverage to Trump during the six weeknights after the leak, according to news analyst Andrew Tyndall, most of it
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- 10/19/2016
- by Joe Bel Bruno
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Gabriel will play his 1986 album So in full at a series of UK shows next year. The ex-Genesis star is this year celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release, which was re-issued last month in a deluxe edition box-set edition. Gabriel is backed on the tour by bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Rhodes, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Manu Katche. Tickets for the 'Back to Front' dates are available to fanclub members this Wednesday, November 21 at 9am and go on general release this Friday, November 23 at 9am. So includes Gabriel's hits 'Sledgehammer' (more)...
- 11/19/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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