CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television broadcaster CBS headquartered in New York City. Along with ABC News and NBC News, it has long been among the big three broadcast news networks in the United States. CBS News emerged as a radio news broadcast service in 1929. In 1933, Paul W. White was named head of the news division and saw it through World War II where it expanded into Latin America, providing an alternative to Nazi propaganda with assistance from the Department of State. Its first television broadcasts began in 1941 with WCBW in New York City. In 1962, Walter Cronkite became anchor of its flagship television news program, the newly renamed to CBS Evening News. Following parent company Paramount's merger with Skydance Media, Kenneth R. Weinstein (the former CEO of the Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign policy think tank) was appointed as CBS News' ombudsman, while The Free Press founder and owner Bari Weiss was appointed its editor-in-chief. These moves were interpreted by critics as a sign the organization was shifting politically rightward. CBS News television programs include CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings; news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours; and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation. It also oversees CBS News podcasts like The Takeout Podcast. CBS News also operates CBS News 24/7, a 24-hour digital streaming channel.