Norah O’Donnell calls CBS Information management ‘difficult’ amid departures

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Longtime CBS Information correspondent Norah O'Donnell remarked on how "difficult" the community's new management has been in a podcast interview Tuesday.

Whereas showing on "The Jamie Kern Lima Present," O'Donnell was requested to touch upon the modifications at CBS for the reason that community and its dad or mum firm, Paramount International, got here below new management.

"You understand, I've labored at CBS now for, oh my goodness, in all probability virtually 14 years and have had a fantastic profession," O'Donnell mentioned. "Whether or not it was masking the White Home anchoring the morning present, anchoring the night information, and dealing for ‘60 Minutes,’ now we have had plenty of management modifications at CBS, and that has been difficult, not just for me, however I do know for my colleagues. And I believe with so many management modifications, individuals are fearful about what the long run means."

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Norah O'Donnell, proper, spoke to "The Jamie Kern Lima Present" about CBS Information management. (Mary Kouw/CBS through Getty Pictures)

In the course of the podcast, she nonetheless spoke extremely of CBS Information for serving to facilitate main interviews, corresponding to her "60 Minutes" interview with President Donald Trump.

"I am very lucky to work for CBS Information and work with the perfect producers and, you already know, generally all of us take plenty of warmth, you already know, however I occur to work with some actually unimaginable, unimaginable individuals who make our job not solely fascinating and profitable, but in addition we care deeply about one another," O'Donnell mentioned.

Fox Information Digital reached out to CBS Information for remark.

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CBS Information has come below scrutiny since The Free Press founder Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief in October, a transfer that was seen as controversial by many individuals inside and out of doors the community.

Bari Weiss, who was handpicked by Paramount CEO David Ellison, was formally named editor-in-chief of CBS Information in October. (Michele Crowe/CBS Information through Getty Pictures)

Shortly after Weiss' new place was introduced, John Dickerson, who changed O'Donnell as anchor of "CBS Night Information," introduced that he can be leaving the community after 16 years.

Final week, "CBS Night Information" producer Alicia Hastey abruptly resigned from the community and accused management of wanting to evolve tales to "ideological expectations."

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"The reality is that dedication to these folks and the tales they should promote is more and more changing into unimaginable," Hastey mentioned. "Tales might as a substitute be evaluated not simply on their journalistic benefit however on whether or not they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations — a dynamic that pressures producers and reporters to self-censor or keep away from difficult narratives which may set off backlash or unfavorable headlines."

CBS Information anchors corresponding to John Dickerson and Anderson Cooper have left the community since Weiss took over management. (Getty Pictures)

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It was later introduced on Monday that "60 Minutes" correspondent Anderson Cooper can be leaving the community after virtually 20 years.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.