Paul Friedman

Paul Friedman Upped at CBS News - Posted September 23, 2009
One of the only news executives to have worked in executive roles at the big three broadcast networks, Paul Friedman, got a promotion today to Executive VP of CBS News. In an email from CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus, obtained by TVNewser, McManus writes, "Thanks to Paul, the news division... [TVNewser]

Obama Over-Exposed, Rahm Running Out of Favors - Posted August 3, 2009
Mark Whitaker, NBC's Washington bureau chief, told WaPo's Howard Kurtz that Obama "is at risk of overexposure" following the president's last prime-time press conference. Which might explain why Rahm Emanuel had to call Bob Iger, chief executive of Disney, ABC's parent company to urge the network to carry the presser... [FishBowlDC]

CBS News Hires Digital Journalist Based in Afghanistan - Posted July 27, 2009
Mandy Clark has been named CBS News Digital Journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan. As a digital journalist, Clark will be involved in the reporting, videotaping and editing of her stories for all CBS News platforms. "Mandy has done great work from the field in all conditions and we are pleased that... [TVNewser]

Former Adviser to Pres. Bush Joins CBS News - Posted May 19, 2009
Juan Carlos Zarate has joined CBS News as a national security analyst. Zarate previously served as the Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2005-2009. He is currently a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We are very pleased that... [TVNewser]

CBS Cuts From Tel Aviv Bureau Just Before War - Posted January 7, 2009
The New York Observer's Felix Gillette writes about the cuts at CBS News' Tel Aviv bureau "on the eve of the outbreak of war in Gaza." Gillette reports approximately a dozen employees were losing their job, bring the bureau down to a bureau chief, Gaby Silon, and three others. CBS News SVP Paul... [TVNewser]

Evening Newscasts Ending Year Surprisingly Strong - Posted December 24, 2008
NBC Nightly News EP Bob Epstein has been on the job for two weeks. He's off to a great start. The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams saw its best ratings in nearly two years last week, and the week prior, had some of the best ratings of 2008. "We've just not... [TVNewser]

CBS News Eyes Late Election Night, No Matter What - Posted November 4, 2008
CBS News and Sports president Sean McManu (standing) and Evening News EP Rick Kaplan (seated, third from right) in the control room. After a stop at ABC News' Times Square studios, we made our way uptown to West 57th Street and CBS News HQ. Katie Couric, anchoring general election campaign coverage for... [TVNewser]

Networks To Call Them as They See Them - Posted November 4, 2008
Sheldon Gawiser has been calling elections for NBC for 40 years — his first as polling director at Cleveland's WKYC in 1968. After the debacle of 2000 (where Gawiser appeared on-air with Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert to explain what went wrong) to the data problems of the 2004 race, Gawiser... [TVNewser]

Understanding the Standards - Posted July 23, 2008
Continuing the fallout from the Katie Couric CBS Evening News interview with Sen. John McCain last night, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has more on the answer in question. CBS News SVP Paul Friedman said in a statement: "The report was edited under extreme time constraints and one piece of tape was... [TVNewser]